Summer Evening, Edward Hopper, 1947
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Edward Hopper, Sunlight in a Cafeteria, 1958. Oil on canvas,
Photo: Whitney Museum of American Art
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Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967) • Two on the Isle • 1927 • Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
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Milestone Monday
The Morse Dry Dock Dial, 1921
New York Movie, 1939
Houses of Squam Light, 1923
Interior, 1925
Self Portrait, 1904
Cape Ann Granite, 1928
Night Windows, 1928
Jo Painting, 1936
Nighthawks, 1942
Cape Cod Morning, 1950
July 22nd marks the birthday of American realist painter and printmaker Edward Hopper (1882-1967). Born in Nyack, New York, Hopper took to art at a young age exploring shadows and shapes through charcoal drawings. By age ten, he started to sign and date his work and, with his parents' encouragement, spent his teen years delving into watercolor and oil painting. Declaring his professional interest in art, Hopper attended the New York School of Art and went on to become a renowned figure in American Realism.
Like many before him, Hopper started his career in commercial illustration to pay the bills but by the late twenties he was supporting himself through showing and selling his paintings. Hopper’s work explores architectural American environments and intimate rural scenes through a lens of solitude. The dramatic moods of his paintings are created through his expertise in capturing light and shadow to convey the subtilties of human experience.
In celebration of the day, we’re sharing Edward Hopper: a catalogue raisonné published in 1995 by Whitney Museum of American Art and edited by art historian Gail Levin (b. 1948). The three-volume catalog is a definitive work on Hopper featuring essays on the artist and hundreds of plates encompassing the entire scope of his career. Scholars will delight at the publication’s inclusion of bibliographic details including provenance and exhibition histories attributed to most pieces.
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“vintage bottles”, 2023 by Norman Engel
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Abraham Neuman (Polish, 1873 - 1942) - The Night Train
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Blackboard, 1877
Winslow Homer
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House by the Railroad, Edward Hopper
(1925)
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Edward Hopper, Hotel Room, 1931
Edward Hopper, Summer Interior, 1909
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Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967) • Self-Portrait • 1903-06
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Priscilla Roberts, Self-Portrait, 1946, oil on masonite, 29 7⁄8 x 14 1⁄8 in. (75.8 x 35.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 1991.197
#bornonthisday Priscilla Roberts (1916–2001) was an American artist known for her still life paintings. She employed a precise style in which fanciful objects were juxtaposed in a manner that was seen to approach surrealism and that was often called magic realist. In 1960, a critic writing for Arts Magazine said, "There can hardly be any doubt that Priscilla Roberts is the most talented and accomplished Magic Realist in America." Via Wikipedia
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Soir Bleu, Edward Hopper, 1914
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Edward Hopper, Skyline Near Washington Square, 1925. Watercolor and graphite on paper,
"Skyline Near Washington Square portrays an austere Manhattan rooftop behind which rises a single gaunt narrow building that dominates the sky. When first shown, this work bore the title Self-Portrait, an ironical and self-referential joke in the form of a visual pun on Hopper's own great height, which had long been an object of caricature and comment by himself and his friends. The original title, which also appears in the artist's record books, must have puzzled any viewer unfamiliar with Hopper's lanky figure. For this watercolor Hopper's wife Jo noted in the record books she kept of his work as it left the studio. 'Self-Portrait. Roof & top of higher house sticking up behind. Skyline near Wash. Sq.' By the time he sold the work in 1927 he had renamed it, concealing the self-reference with the purely descriptive title."
--Gail Levin
Photo: Whitney Museum of American Art
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Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967) • New York Movie • 1939 • Museum of Modern Art, New York City
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“American cowgirl”, 2019 by Norman Engel
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On the Stile (1878)
🎨 Winslow Homer
🏛️ National Gallery of Art
📍 Washington, DC, United States
Homer spent several months during the summer and late fall of 1878 at Houghton Farm, the country residence of a patron in Mountainville, New York. There he created dozens of watercolors of farm girls and boys playing and pursuing various tasks, including On the Stile. Painted quickly and often outdoors, these watercolors present idyllic scenes of rural life that follow in the European tradition of pastoral painting.
This graceful depiction of boys and girls frolicking in the outdoors is fluidly painted and transparently colored, conveying a sense of lightness and spontaneity.
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