{"id":1692674,"date":"2026-09-15T18:26:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T22:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/observer.com\/?p=1692674"},"modified":"2026-09-15T19:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:58:57","slug":"art-exhibition-david-hockney-manship-artists-residency-reproductions-gloucester-bing-mcgilvray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/09\/art-exhibition-david-hockney-manship-artists-residency-reproductions-gloucester-bing-mcgilvray\/","title":{"rendered":"This Gloucester Exhibition Looks at David Hockney Through the Eyes of a Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1693032\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1693032\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/09\/art-exhibition-david-hockney-manship-artists-residency-reproductions-gloucester-bing-mcgilvray\/img_1534-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1693032\" data-lasso-id=\"3027459\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-1693032\" src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1534.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=970\" alt=\"An overhead shot of a gallery exhibition in a barn.\" width=\"970\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1534.jpg 1428w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1534.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1534.jpg?resize=768,576 768w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1534.jpg?resize=635,476 635w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1534.jpg?resize=970,728 970w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1534.jpg?resize=320,240 320w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1534.jpg?resize=50,38 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 135px, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1693032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Hockney Reproduction(s)&#8221; draws on more than 45 years of friendship between the artist and Bing McGilvray, who curated the show. <span class=\"media-credit\">Courtesy Bing McGilvray, used with the permission of Manship Artists Residency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Those open to venturing a bit off the beaten path for an art experience will be well rewarded by heading up to Gloucester, Massachusetts, for a David Hockney show unlike most others. There are just a few original artworks in the cozy wood-beamed gallery barn of the Manship Artists Residency, but the late artist himself guided the show&#8217;s creation, and you&#8217;ll see his signature many times over in sign-offs directed toward his longtime friend Bing McGilvray. Throughout &#8220;Hockney Reproduction(s),&#8221; it also appears on posters, prints and missives, which are presented across two floors alongside seldom-seen fax works, photographic composites, digital drawings and video.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1693031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1693031\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/09\/art-exhibition-david-hockney-manship-artists-residency-reproductions-gloucester-bing-mcgilvray\/img_1448-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1693031\" data-lasso-id=\"3027460\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full-width wp-image-1693031\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=970\" alt=\"A dark wood wall hung with painted portraits of the same subject at different ages.\" width=\"970\" height=\"728\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg?resize=768,576 768w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg?resize=635,476 635w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg?resize=970,728 970w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg?resize=320,240 320w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg?resize=50,38 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 135px, 200px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full-width wp-image-1693031\" src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=970\" alt=\"A dark wood wall hung with painted portraits of the same subject at different ages.\" width=\"970\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg?resize=768,576 768w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg?resize=635,476 635w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg?resize=970,728 970w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg?resize=320,240 320w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_1448.jpg?resize=50,38 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 135px, 200px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1693031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over the years, Hockney would paint, sketch and photograph McGilvray many, many times. <span class=\"media-credit\">Courtesy Bing McGilvray, used with the permission of Manship Artists Residency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>McGilvray, whose large collection of Hockney ephemera initially inspired &#8220;Hockney Reproduction(s),&#8221; describes himself as a real &#8220;Gloucester character,&#8221; which he certainly is today. But in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was an aspiring illustrator, fresh out of art school and sick of Boston. Longing for something different, he drove across the country with a friend, landed in L.A. and loved it. It wasn&#8217;t long before he encountered a book by Hockney and found himself utterly blown away. &#8220;Going to art school in the early &#8217;70s, it was all abstract, conceptual, minimal\u2014very interesting, but I&#8217;m a cartoonist,&#8221; McGilvray, who also curated the show, told Observer. &#8220;I was determined to meet him, and it happened, and I found out that was the same thing he&#8217;d been dealing with. He said, &#8216;Yes, yes, this is what I&#8217;ve been telling them at the Royal College of Art\u2014more drawing classes, not less.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<table width=\"329\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>&#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/manshipartists.org\/hockney-reproductions\" data-lasso-id=\"3027461\">Hockney Reproduction(s)<\/a>&#8220;<\/b><br \/>\n<strong>Artist: <\/strong>David Hockney<br \/>\n<strong>Venue: <\/strong>Manship Artists Residency<br \/>\n<strong>Address: <\/strong>Gloucester, MA<br \/>\n<strong>Through: <\/strong>October 18, 2026<br \/>\n<strong>Admission: <\/strong>Free, but advanced registration is required<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>That conversation sparked a close friendship that lasted more than 45 years, evidence of which is peppered throughout the show: paintings and digital photo collages of McGilvray (a frequent Hockney sitter), exhibition posters inscribed by the artist, invitations to visit overlaid on iPad sketches. &#8220;We always kept in touch, even in the last few years. I haven&#8217;t been able to travel and he hadn&#8217;t, either, but thanks to FaceTime, we were always talking to each other,&#8221; he said. In the two years before Hockney&#8217;s passing, those conversations were often about &#8220;Hockney Reproduction(s),&#8221; which evolved out of McGilvray&#8217;s 2025 Manship residency. Initially, the artist was skeptical, but he came around when Richard Benefield, the first executive director of The David Hockney Foundation and a friend of McGilvray&#8217;s, joined the project as an advisor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;David calmed down, and then the more I started saying &#8216;we can do this, we can do that, we can show the faxes,&#8217; he got very excited about it,&#8221; McGilvray recalled. (Hockney sent elaborate faxes in the late 1980s and early &#8217;90s to friends and galleries, building images across multiple sheets, and these were often shown at the time of their creation but have largely dropped from view, possibly because the medium is now so thoroughly obsolete. The fax drawings in the show are, more than any other pieces, artifacts of a very particular moment.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1692743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1692743\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/09\/art-exhibition-david-hockney-manship-artists-residency-reproductions-gloucester-bing-mcgilvray\/bing-mcgilvray-and-david-hockney-friendship-exhibition\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1692743\" data-lasso-id=\"3027462\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full-width wp-image-1692743\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?quality=80&amp;w=970\" alt=\"Two older white men, shown as if taking a selfie. The man in the foreground wears glasses and suit. The shorter man in the background is wearing a newsboy hat, round yellow glasses, and smokes a cigarette.\" width=\"970\" height=\"729\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=768,577 768w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=635,477 635w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=1536,1154 1536w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=970,729 970w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=320,240 320w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=1920,1443 1920w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=50,38 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 135px, 200px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full-width wp-image-1692743\" src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?quality=80&amp;w=970\" alt=\"Two older white men, shown as if taking a selfie. The man in the foreground wears glasses and suit. The shorter man in the background is wearing a newsboy hat, round yellow glasses, and smokes a cigarette.\" width=\"970\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=768,577 768w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=635,477 635w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=1536,1154 1536w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=970,729 970w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=320,240 320w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=1920,1443 1920w, https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Bing-McGilvray-and-David-Hockney-friendship-exhibition.jpeg?resize=50,38 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 135px, 200px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1692743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bing McGilvray and David Hockney. <span class=\"media-credit\">Courtesy Bing McGilvray, used with the permission of Manship Artists Residency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With both Hockney and Benefield on board, things accelerated. David Hockney Inc. in L.A. provided 25 posters. Salt&#8217;s Mill in Saltaire, U.K.\u2014a former textile mill turned into a cultural destination by another friend of Hockney&#8217;s, and which now houses one of the largest collections of the artist&#8217;s work\u2014provided more posters and merch. Friends and collectors contributed additional materials, including original illustrations Hockney made for <i>Grimm&#8217;s Fairy Tales<\/i>, loaned by Diane Chen Koch-Weser. Cultural historian and curator Charlie Scheips, another close Hockney confidant and one-time studio assistant, also contributed to the exhibition&#8217;s creation and gave a lecture on the opening weekend.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1692681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1692681\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/09\/art-exhibition-david-hockney-manship-artists-residency-reproductions-gloucester-bing-mcgilvray\/pxl_20260913_195217737david-hockney-reproductions-bing-mcgilvray\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1692681\" data-lasso-id=\"3027463\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full-width wp-image-1692681\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/PXL_20260913_195217737david-hockney-reproductions-bing-mcgilvray-e1789482954269.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=970\" alt=\"A collage of full-length David Hockney painted portraits set in a grid\" width=\"970\" height=\"669\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full-width wp-image-1692681\" src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/PXL_20260913_195217737david-hockney-reproductions-bing-mcgilvray-e1789482954269.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=970\" alt=\"A collage of full-length David Hockney painted portraits set in a grid\" width=\"970\" height=\"669\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1692681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reproductions in miniature of works from &#8220;82 Portraits and 1 Still Life,&#8221; painted by Hockney between 2013 and 2016 in his Los Angeles studio. Bing McGilvray can be seen on the bottom right. <span class=\"media-credit\">Photo: Christa Terry for Observer<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/06\/death-david-hockney-artist-tribute\/\" data-lasso-id=\"3027481\">Hockney was a lifelong experimenter<\/a>, so it&#8217;s fitting that the curatorial throughline here is experimentation, with the whole of &#8220;Hockney Reproduction(s)&#8221; being itself something of an experiment. There are distinct thematic groupings of works\u2014fax drawings, items related to the artist&#8217;s engagement with the theater, photo collages, museum posters and books\u2014around the space, which McGilvray maintained Hockney would have loved. But don&#8217;t come expecting a chronological walk through Hockney&#8217;s oeuvre or an in-depth exploration of the artist&#8217;s career. There are no placards or explanatory wall texts accompanying the objects on display, which some may find frustrating. That aside, what the exhibition lacks in detail, it makes up for in heart, color and panache.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of joy here\u2014I can feel the vibrancy Hockney surrounded himself with,&#8221; one exhibition-goer commented during our visit. Ultimately, it&#8217;s not just a show about the work of an artist most of us will miss greatly, even those who never met him, but also a show about what he meant to the people who knew him best. &#8220;It&#8217;s grown far beyond anything we initially imagined,&#8221; McGilvray said. &#8220;But of course, whenever David got involved with something, everything changed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3><b>More in exhibitions<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/08\/exhibition-review-timeless-mucha-the-magic-of-line-at-the-nelson-atkins-museum-of-art\/\" data-lasso-id=\"3027464\">One Fine Show: \u201cTimeless Mucha, The Magic of Line\u201d at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/list\/seoul-art-week-2026-must-see-shows-frieze-seoul\/\" data-lasso-id=\"3027465\">The Exhibitions Not to Miss in Seoul<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/09\/art-rencontres-darles-photography-festival-review-luma-bustamante\/\" data-lasso-id=\"3027466\">In Arles, Photography and Art Ease the Transition from Summer into Fall<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/08\/exhibition-review-artist-interview-shezad-dawood-skin-of-dreams-abu-dhabi\/\" data-lasso-id=\"3027467\">Shezad Dawood\u2019s \u201cSkin of Dreams\u201d Looks Forward as Well as Back<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/08\/review-willem-de-kooning-drawing-art-institute-of-chicago\/\" data-lasso-id=\"3027468\">The Continuing Reinvention of Willem de Kooning<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/08\/hair-who-artist-gladys-nilsson-first-major-retrospective-crocker\/\" data-lasso-id=\"3027469\">\u201cIt\u2019s About Time\u201d: At 86, Gladys Nilsson Gets Her First Major 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