S, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Helen Frankenthaler HC prints are traditionally reserved

HC prints are traditionally reserved for the artist

and cream tones

The print is from "Black Book

Her palette is a dynamic harmony of contrasting tones

the Museum of Contemporary Art

S, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Helen Frankenthaler HC prints are traditionally reservedDavid Hockney's letter S comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. A great S, drawn only as a dotted outline, winds down the sheet through a dense sea of red and yellow scallop marks that read as waves, the letter surfacing from the pattern like a current cutting through water. Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen Spender and published in