Edward Hopper - 1882-1967
Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York in 1882. He attended the New York School of Illustrating and then the New York School of Art. Hopper also studied under Robert Henri, one of the fathers of American Realism. In 1914 he sold his first painting and in 1920 had his first solo exhibition. In 1933, Hopper was given a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
He
...see more »married a fellow artist, Jo Nivison, and settled in Greenwich Village in New York City. His wife was the model in many of his paintings and was considered to be the most important person in his life. He excelled in creating realistic pictures of sunlit streets and houses, often without figures, but there is an atmosphere of loneliness and starkness to his paintings. They are also nostalgic for the virtues of the past, although modern in their bleakness and simplicity.
One of the themes of Edward Hopper's art was the loneliness of travel. He and his wife traveled extensively by car or train throughout the United States and Mexico where he found inspiration for his paintings. There was often a reflection of the film images in his paintings, since he frequented the movies. In 2006, one of his works, "Hotel Window", sold for $24 million dollars.
Partial list of art works:
1925 Model Reading (Art Institute of Chicago)
1925 The House by the Railroad (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1926 Mrs. Acorn's Parlor (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1928 Box Factory, Gloucester (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1930 Early Sunday Morning (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City)
1932 Room in Brooklyn (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
1939 New York Movie (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1940 Gas (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1942 Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago)« see less
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