british artist, david hockney, has gifted the tate museum with his largest painting to date . . . “bigger trees near warter”. the painting is around 40 feet by 15 feet consisting of 50 panels depicting an actual setting called “warter”, not a misspelling of the word “water”.

“i thought if i’m going to give something to the tate i want to give them something really good. it’s going to be here for a while. i don’t want to give things i’m not proud of.” hockney also said “i feel loyal to the tate. more artists should donate. they should think about it. you can’t quite trust collectors who say they’ll give to the tate and often don’t.”