Edward Hopper
- Introduction
- Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker. While he is widely known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. His career benefited decisively from his marriage to fellow-artist Josephine Nivison, who contributed much to his work, both as a life-model and as a creative partner. Hopper was a minor-key artist, creating subdued drama out of commonplace subjects ‘layered with a poetic meaning’, inviting narrative interpretations, often unintended. He was praised for ‘complete verity’ in the America he portrayed.
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- Introduction
- Hopper was one of the premier Realist painters of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1900, Hopper studied portrait and still-life painting with William Merritt Chase, but he preferred to take classes with Kenneth Hayes Miller and Robert Henri. In 1906, Hopper worked as a part-time illustrator, but by autumn of that year he went to Paris to study the work of European artists. His painting from this period and soon after reflects the influence of "plein air" painting and Impressionism. Hopper continued to work as an illustrator, garnering more critical and commercial success with it than painting, although he loathed this work. By 1925, Hopper began to develop his signature, where the focus is on only one or two solitary figures often consumed by vast outdoors spaces or cramped city streets. His landscapes also evoke a similar haunting loneliness. One of Hopper's most well known works is a poignant portrayal of urban alienation, "The Night Hawks" (1942). With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism in the 1940s, Hopper's work was seen as illustrative and obsolete. Pop Art and PhotoComment on works: realism resurrected his reputation. American artist. Comment on works: realism
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Engraver, Illustrator, Painter
- Names
- Edward Hopper, Hopper [rejected]
- Ulan
- 500031212
Exhibitions
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509: New York City, 1920s
Ongoing
MoMA
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520: Picturing America
Ongoing
MoMA
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Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern
Mar 17–Jun 15, 2019
MoMA
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American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe
Aug 17, 2013–Jan 26, 2014
MoMA
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Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983
Oct 19, 2011–Feb 12, 2012
MoMA
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Edward Hopper has
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Edward Hopper House by a River 1919
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Edward Hopper American Landscape 1920
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Edward Hopper Cow and Rocks 1920
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Edward Hopper Night in the Park 1921
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Edward Hopper The Evening Wind 1921
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Edward Hopper The Lonely House 1922
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Edward Hopper The Railroad 1922
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Edward Hopper The Catboat 1922
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Edward Hopper East Side Interior 1922
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Edward Hopper The Locomotive 1923
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Edward Hopper Aux Fortifications 1923
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Edward Hopper Night Shadows 1921, published December 1924
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Edward Hopper House by the Railroad 1925
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Edward Hopper Mrs. Acorn's Parlor (1926)
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Edward Hopper Box Factory, Gloucester (1928)
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Edward Hopper Night Windows 1928
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Edward Hopper New York Movie 1939
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Edward Hopper Gas 1940
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