Explore the Summer 1976 about the 1976 of the Timeline in this artwork, The Blue Guitar.
Summer 1976 Hockney's regular summer companion, the curator Henry Geldzahler introduced Hockney to the modernist poet Wallace Stevens' poem, The Man with the Blue Guitar, in the summer of 1976, while holidaying together on Fire Island, NY, along with the writer Christopher Isherwood."When I first read The Man with the Blue Guitar, I wasn't quite sure what it was about, like all poems like that, but I loved the rhythms in it and some of the imagery, just the choice of words is marvellous. Then, when I read it out loud, I loved it even more, because I got the music that it has." — David Hockney
Christopher Isherwood David Hockney The Man with the Blue Guitar Wallace Stevens Henry Geldzahler Fire Island