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Edward Hopper

  • American realist painter.
    (born in July 22, 1882 in Upper Nyack, New York – died in his studio near Washington Square in New York City on May 15, 1967).
  • Known for aesthetics of alienation. The sense of isolation.
  • Was initially trained as a commercial illustrator,
    attended New York School of Art (1900 – 1906).
  • Considered himself an Impressionist,
    was fascinated by American vernacular architecture.
  • Discovered the works of Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Manet, Renoir,
    Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Monet, Cezanne
    and Van Gogh...
  • Gained his first financial success from prinmaking by Etching. [1]
  • Was a celebrated poster artist during the First World War.
  • Had his first one-man show at the age of 37
    (January 1920 at the Whitney Studio Club)
  • In 1930 his painting House by the Railroad was the first work to be acquired for the collections of Museum of Modern Art.

After New York School of Art Hopper stayed in Paris (1906 – 1907).
Then he undertook trips to Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Berlin, Madrid, and Toledo, which helped to shape his visual vocabulary.

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Edward_Hopper-NightWindows1939-moma

Edward_Hopper-NewYorkMovie1939-moma

Edward_Hopper-Gas1940-moma

Edward_Hopper_Nighthawks1942_x1920

Edward_Hopper-HouseByTheRailroad1925-moma

Alfred Hitchcock modeled the famous house in Pyscho (1960) off of Hopper’s House by the Railroad.

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EdwardHopper-tables-for-ladies-1930

EdwardHopper-RoomInNewYork1932_x1600

EdwardHopper-CapeCodEvening1939-nga-1

"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.”
– Edward Hopper

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EdwardHopper-CityRoofs1932

EdwardHopper-TheCircleTheatre1936

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EdwardHopper-HouseAtDusk1935

Hopper-Automat1927

“I do not believe there is another city on earth so beautiful as Paris nor another people with such an appreciation of the beautiful as the French.”
– Edward Hopper

EdwardHopper-Drugstore1927

EdwardHopper-ElevenAM1926

EdwardHopper-SevenAM1948-whitney

EdwardHopper-NewYorkInterior

EdwardHopper-CarolinaMorning

Edward_Hopper-AWomanInTheSun-whitney1961

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EdwardHopper-SummerInterior1909

EdwardHopper-hotel-room1931

EdwardHopper-Sunday1926

EdwardHopper-TheBarberShop1931

EdwardHopper-Cobb-sBarnAndDistantHouses1931

EdwardHopper-MorningInACity1944

EdwardHopper-ApproachingACity1946

Edward_Hopper-HotelLobby1943

EdwardHopper-HotelWindow1955

EdwardHopper-GirlieShow1941

EdwardHopper-ChopSuey1929

Edward_Hopper-CompartmentC1938

EdwardHopper-ManhattanBridgeLoop

Edward_Hopper-CapeCodMorning1950

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Edward_Hopper-FourLane-Road1956

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"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”
– Edward Hopper

Edward_Hopper-ChairCar1965

EdwardHopper-Summertime1943

EdwardHopper-RoomsByTheSea1951

EdwardHopper-SummerEvening1947

EdwardHopper-MorningSun1952-oiloncanvas

EdwardHopper-pennsylvania-coal-town1947

EdwardHopper-RoomInBrooklyn

Edward_Hopper_HighNoon1949

Edward_Hopper-SunlightOnBrownstones1956

EdwardHopper-OfficeInASmallCity1953

Edward_Hopper-WesternMotel1957

Edward_Hopper-SunlightsInCafeteria1958-oiloncanvas

Edward_Hopper-ExcursionIntoPhilosophy1959

“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. ”
– Edward Hopper

Edward_Hopper-PeopleInTheSun1960

Edward_Hopper-SecondStorySunlight1960

Edward_Hopper-SeaWatchers

EdwardHopper-NewYorkOffice1962

EdwardHopper-HotelByA-Railroad1952_x1600

EdwardHopper-TwoCommedians1965_x1600

EdwardHopper-Intermission1963-sfmoma

“Sometimes talking to Eddie is just like dropping a stone in a well, except that it doesn’t thump when it hits bottom.”
— Jo Hopper, his wife

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“When I don’t feel in the mood for painting, I go to the movies for a week or more.”
— Edward Hopper

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Edward_Hopper-NightShadows1921


Edward's wife Josephine Nivison was his favorite model and was largely responsible for his initial success. At her recommendation, the curators at the Brooklyn Museum agreed to show six of Hopper’s watercolors...

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EdwardHopper-JoSketchingAtGoodHarbourBeach1923


Hopper carried a quote from Goethe in his wallet:

“The beginning and end of all literary activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds me by means of the world that is in me, all things being grasped, related, recreated, molded and reconstructed in a personal form and an original manner.”
– Goethe

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Due to realism, contemplation of ordinary subjects and study of the psyche Hopper became a signinficant inspiration for contemporary photographers. We could find clear references to him in photographs of Gregory Crewdson, Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Walker Evans, Stephen Shore, Nan Goldin, and many many others.


SeeAlso

Edward Hopper - Biography
Guardian - America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keeffe to Hopper review
Sothebys - 21 Facts About Edward Hopper (by Colton Klein)


  1. Etching – the process of using strong acid to cut into the
    unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio
    (image is created by cutting, carving or engraving into a flat
    surface) in the metal. As an intaglio method of printmaking it is,
    along with engraving, the most important technique for old master
    prints, and remains widely used today. ↩︎

Edward Hopper
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