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Collector Jordan D. Schnitzer’s David Hockney Holdings Come Home to Portland

The exhibition showcases the full scope of the evolution of the artist's practice, from the iconic lithographs of his early years to his bold, tech-forward iPad landscapes.

“Art is the highest thing we do in society. It touches us in ways, conscious and unconscious,” collector Jordan D. Schnitzer, a real estate magnate whose family has been at the forefront of Portland’s shakers and movers for decades, tells Observer. His collection, among the largest in North America, includes 2,000 paintings and sculptures by modern and contemporary mavens like Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Frank Stella, Judy Chicago, Jeffrey Gibson, Alison Saar and Kara Walker, and thousands more prints, including 1,400 by Warhol. “Waking up without art around me is like waking up without the sun.”

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His collection also includes hundreds of works by David Hockney, many of which have been touring the country, moving from the Honolulu Museum of Art to the Palm Springs Art Museum, then the Grand Rapids Art Museum, before finally making its way back to the Portland Art Museum in Schnitzer’s hometown, on view through July. Collectively, the show is a kaleidoscope of Hockney’s oeuvre, with California swimming pools, Yosemite National Park and rural French landscapes, as well as portraits of friends and family, book illustrations and theatrical backdrops. Included are early lithographs Hockney made with Ken Tyler, who started L.A.’s legendary print house Gemini GEL in the 1960s.

While still a student at the Bradford School of Art in London, Hockney relied mainly on fundamental printmaking techniques such as lithography........

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