1976

Appointed CBE. Artist in residence for a year at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Shows 9 new paintings at Waddington Galleries, London.

Awarded second prize at the 10th John Moore’s Liverpool Exhibition for Cafeteria at the Grand Palais.

First retrospective exhibition ‘Forty-five Paintings, 1949-1975’ opens at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. Richard Morphet writes in the catalogue. Works include Bombay Sunset and Small Durand Gardens, where Morphet then lived.

Makes a print, After Luke Howard, for a bicentennial portfolio tribute, ‘For John Constable’, published by Bernard Jacobson, along with works by Peter Blake, Bill Brandt, Barry Flanagan, Duncan Grant, David Hockney, John Hoyland, Richard Smith and others. Luke Howard, a distant relation, after whom Hodgkin was named, wrote the ‘Essay on the Modification of Clouds’ (1803), that inspired Constable’s cloud studies. Read more here.