Early Life and Education Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin (1932–2017) was a British painter and printmaker, renowned for his distinctive approach to abstraction and his profound engagement with memory and Indian culture. Born on August 6, 1932, in Hammersmith, London, he descended from a family steeped in intellectual pursuits—his father, Eliot Hodgkin, managed ICI and cultivated a passion for horticulture, while his maternal grandfather, Gordon Hewart, served as Lord Chief Justice and possessed an impressive legal career. Hodgkin’s upbringing instilled in him a lifelong appreciation for obse…