The Beverly Hills Housewife

James Cahill

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'Sun-drenched ... charming' Guardian 'Intriguing' The Financial Times 'Deeply moving' The Spectator 'Clever ... entertaining' The Times 'Excellent' The Literary Review 'Truly illuminating' Edmund de Waal 'Evokes an all-but-lost universe' Sir Norman Rosenthal From James Cahill, author of the much-acclaimed Tiepolo Blue and The Violet Hour, comes a panoramic portrait of 1960s LA and Californian culture, seen through the eyes of a young David Hockney and the enigmatic socialite Betty Freeman. In the summer of 1966, David Hockney paid a visit to a wealthy Los Angeles art collector. Her name was Betty Freeman. He had intended to paint her swimming pool, but was rapidly entranced by Freeman herself. Hockney, soon to embark on a series of Los Angeles paintings that would become icons of their time and place, immortalized Freeman in Beverly Hills Housewife (1966-67), a sunlit vision of the collector on the terrace of her modernist h


Author(s): Cahill, James
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 27/08/2026
Pagination: 272 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Thames and Hudson
Published By: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Book Classification: Individual artists, art monographs|Painting & paintings|Biography & non-fiction prose
Dimensions: 234
Weight:
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780500028810

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