David Hockney’s “Going Up Garrowby Hill”

There are many ways to celebrate spring, but few contemporary artists have devoted more attention to the topic than David Hockney. The cover of the June 9, 2025, issue features Hockney’s painting, from 2000, of Garrowby Hill, a high point in Yorkshire, England, where the artist grew up and returned to, in the late nineteen-nineties, when his mother was ailing. “I’ve known this countryside quite intimately since the early fifties, when I came here to work on a farm during breaks from school, helping with the harvesting of corn,” Hockney told me. “I cycled around, and I discovered it was rather beautiful.” This season, the artist is revelling in the opportunity to organize “David Hockney 25,” the largest show ever staged of his paintings, currently on view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, in Paris. “You can’t really judge a painter until his last work is done. In the last year, he might certainly change and do something different,” he said. “This exhibition means a great deal to me. I’m thrilled to be able to see a lot of my life’s work up on the walls. Not many people can do that.”

For more covers by David Hockney, see below:

Find covers, cartoons, and more at the Condé Nast Store.