Edward Hopper
American realist painter and printmaker (1882-1967) · United States · Artists · Died at 84
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Something wrong?He painted American loneliness before anyone called it that - diners at midnight, empty offices, light falling through windows onto no one. The stillness in his frames feels like waiting, and the waiting feels like a whole interior life you're not supposed to see.
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Edward Hopper, New York artist LCCN2016871478 (cropped).jpg?width=1200)
7h, enfin à l'appart ! Je peux dire que j'ai vu l'expo Hopper et, + mémorable, que j'ai attendu de 2h à 4h15 dans le froid nocturne du mois de février avec @alexmi & @batmanuel & Nat. We did it ! -Hopper (8440527444)
Edward Hopper C.C. Phillips Agency, c. 1906
Edward hopper, albero secco e veduta laterale della casa Lombard, 1931, 03 firma
Edward Hopper, New York artist LCCN2016871478
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Elizabeth Griffith Smith Hopper (cropped)
Elizabeth Griffith Smith HopperIn their own words 10
, I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation which neither literature nor a purely plastic art deals with.
I was always interested in architecture, but the editors [of the magazines who demanded these subjects for the illustrations of Hopper] wanted people waving with their arms.
The idea [for his painting 'Room in New York', he painted in 1932] had been in my mind a long time before I painted it.
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Spouse: Josephine HopperAbout this person
Born in Nyack, New York, on July 22, 1882, to a middle-class family that encouraged his early interest in art, Hopper studied at the New York School of Art under William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri, developing a style built on solitude, light, and shadow. His career advanced slowly, but by the 1920s his oil paintings, watercolors, and etchings - set in New York's architectural grid or the serene stretches of New England - began appearing in major American museums. In 1924 he married fellow artist Josephine Nivison, who managed his career and modeled for many of his works; the couple lived modestly in New York City and summered on Cape Cod, which shaped much of his later output. His most famous painting, Nighthawks, arrived in 1942, a quiet, introspective scene from everyday life that exemplified his method: commonplace subjects rendered with such compositional precision and poetic mood that they invited narrative interpretations. Praised for "complete verity" in the America he portrayed, Hopper remained private and introspective until his death on May 15, 1967, dedicated to exploring the subtleties of human experience through form, light, and the emotional re
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