B, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Christopher Wool Wool's text-based works appear in

Wool's text-based works appear in major museum collections including MoMA

beginning as light looping practice strokes and descending into a bottom row of fat

American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome

' 'Paranoiac

is a photolithograph printed on a paper shopping bag from an edition of 9000

B, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Christopher Wool Wool's text-based works appear inDavid Hockney's letter B comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. Hockney treats the B as a small still life of letterforms: several B's in different guises a stippled charcoal capital, a clean outline, a solid black slab and an italic flourish tumble across folded planes scattered with green dots and fine pen crosshatch, one letter seen from many angles at