Created on 23 December 2010, No. 610 dates from a formative period in David Hockney’s engagement with the iPad. The drawing was subsequently issued in 2020 as an eight-colour inkjet print on archival cotton-fibre paper for the Art Edition of My Window. Published by TASCHEN in an edition of 250, numbered 501–750, the print was accompanied by a signed and numbered copy of the book housed in a clamshell box.

Seen from the window of Hockney’s Yorkshire home, a dense tracery of snow-covered branches extendDavid Hockney’s Untitled No. 610 (Snow Window) - often dated 23rd December 2010 though sometimes discussed in relation to works from 2009-10 - is a refined example of the artist’s pioneering exploration of digital drawing and seasonal landscape.

Created originally on an iPad looking out from his bedroom window, the composition captures the delicate, snow‑laden branches against a luminous sky. The image was translated into an 8‑colour archival ink‑jet print on cotton‑fibre paper, issued in a limited edition of 250 and hand‑signed and dated by Hockney, situating the piece at the intersection of traditional printmaking and contemporary digital media.

From an art historical perspective, this work belongs to a significant phase in Hockney’s late career where he embraced new technologies - first the iPhone and then the larger iPad screen - as legitimate tools for mark‑making and landscape representation. His My Window series records fleeting atmospheric moments in East Yorkshire through this digital lens, translating immediate perceptions of light, colour, and form into prints that retain the spontaneity of their origins. This fusion of modern digital processes with the venerable tradition of landscape art reflects Hockney’s ongoing investigation into how artists perceive and depict nature, challenging conventional hierarchies between analogue and digital media and underscoring his status as a key figure in the evolution of contemporary visual expression. s across a pale winter sky. Dark, sinuous lines describe the underlying structure of the tree, while irregular passages of white evoke snow resting upon its upper surfaces. The close viewpoint excludes both horizon and ground, transforming the branches into a rhythmic pattern that moves across the composition. Subtle variations of blue, grey and white convey the subdued luminosity of a winter morning.

Hockney began making digital drawings on an iPhone in 2009 and adopted the larger iPad screen the following year. Its illuminated surface and expanded range of tools allowed him to develop increasingly complex relationships between colour, light and line while retaining the immediacy of direct observation. My Window brings together 120 drawings made between 2009 and 2012, recording changing weather, vegetation and light through the recurring framework of the artist’s bedroom window.

By approaching the traditional subjects of landscape and seasonal change through digital technology, Hockney demonstrated the continuity between his new working methods and his longstanding investigation of perception. No. 610 preserves a particular atmospheric moment while forming part of an extended visual record of time passing. Its combination of close observation and technological experimentation places the work within an important transitional phase of Hockney’s later practice.

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