Artist

W Hawkins

W Hawkins is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Hawkins had a habit of hiding tiny jokes in his prints, look closely at the corner of "H Beard Print Collection" and you’ll spot a beard shaped like a question mark. The joke’s the whole point: he turned the stiff formality of 19th-century portrait prints into something playful, almost sneaky. If you like when art winks back at you, grab that print and hunt for the beard’s secret shape.

Works by W Hawkins

Collections represented

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