Exhibition: Durlacher Bros. New York 1958 – Eliot Hodgkin
Article: by Dorothy Adlow
Publication: Christian Science Monitor (09/04/1958)

Such is the state of present day painting that an exhibition of pictures, like these rosebuds and gourds, seems exceptional. It is unique not for the subject-matter or manner of composition, but for the extraordinary meticulousness in execution.
The British painter Eliot Hodgkin remains completely indifferent to or aloof from typical trends of paintings among his contemporaries. Modern painters ignore the obligations which Mr. Hodgkin is happy to fulfil. He is excessively precise in recording all the minutiae. His patience seems endless; his diligence exemplary.
In the 17th century, there where sill-life painters in Holland and in Spain who expended a corresponding patience upon such immaculate execution.
Mr. Hodgkin, well-known in Britain, now exhibits in America for the first time.

By Dorothy Adlow. Reprinted with permission from the April 9, 1958 issue of The Christian Science Monitor. © 1958 The Christian Science Monitor (www.CSMonitor.com).