AND WHILE WE ARE ON

SUCH A WONDERFUL

ROLLING START TO THIS NEWEST OF YEARS... HAVE

YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING

AS FINE AS THE DAVID HOCKNEY COVER OF MAIN?

WE HAD NOT!!

This is the second issue of the extremely scarce Main magazine. It was published in Los Angeles in 1987. The first page declares WHY YOU MAY FRAME MAIN and goes on to explain:

"The cover art was created by David Hockney especially for MAIN. It consists of four separate plates produced on an office copy machine and then printed by George Rice & Sons. It is not a reproduction of an existing work of art. The cover itself is the limited edition of a special David Hockney print."
 

The back cover of the magazine shows Hockney at work on some, presumably rejected, covers for MAIN. 
 

The issue also covers a night out with Hockney (seen above) at the Beaux Arts Ball in San Francisco with Armistead Maupin and friends. This photograph by MAIN magazine publisher Tom Sewell. 
 

This is the Artragous Fashion issue and is LAxcellent throughout in bridging the West Coast worlds of art and fashion. Also includes Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' artists in Comme des Garçons portraits (above is Robert Rauschenberg). 
 

You will love your new Hockney - a lot. At 28 by 42 cm it is quite the statement. Best art cover of a magazine we have seen. And buy it on the green button below.