J, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Cartoon which began at the 1988

which began at the 1988 Freeze exhibition in London's docklands

Guitar Girl

including the bold brushwork of Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline

(1914 - 1993) and his wife Olive (nee Cawley

creates a particular depth and resonance within the composition

J, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Cartoon which began at the 1988David Hockney's letter J comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. A grand ornamental J, its black body outlined in red and shadowed with loops of pale blue scribble, descends through a loosely drawn perspective of hand ruled grids the swashed capital part calligraphy, part architecture. Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen Spender and