M, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Los Angeles Artists Joyce Carol Oates

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M, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Los Angeles Artists Joyce Carol OatesDavid Hockney's letter M comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. A single M painted in cornflower blue, its strokes overlapping into a row of peaks so the letter reads as a line of mountains, white paper and pale negative triangles flashing between the summits. Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen Spender and published in 1991 to raise