Although best known for his haunting oil paintings, Edward Hopper was as much an expert as a water colorist as well as maker of prints done from etchings etching. Born in upper Nyack, New York to a flourishing dry goods merchant, Edward Hopper learned illustration and painting in New York City at the New York Institute of Art and Design. Among his instructors was artist Robert Henri who promoted his pupils to use their artistic talent to "make a stir in the world". Henri, who had an influence on the young Hopper, propelled students to deliver honest portrayals of urban life. Henri's pupils, several of whom would become significant artists in their own right, later became part of what is known as the Ashcan School of American art. Hopper studied with Henri for five years.
Once Hopper had finished his formal training, he proceeded to take three different trips to Europe, each focused on Paris where he hoped to learn from the city's flourishing art scene, but while many in his generation embraced the ideals of abstract cubist experiments, Hopper found the the idealism and detail of the realist artists more appealing.
Once Hopper had finished his formal training, he proceeded to take three different trips to Europe, each focused on Paris where he hoped to learn from the city's flourishing art scene, but while many in his generation embraced the ideals of abstract cubist experiments, Hopper found the the idealism and detail of the realist artists more appealing.
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His early pictures contemplate the realist shape with an accent on both color and form. Shunning the common New England themes of sea sides or boats, Hopper found himself drawn to Victorian architecture even though it was no longer in style.Although he was employed for many years as a trade artist, Hopper kept on painting personal works which were met with limited success but not at the level of public acceptance he wished. He sold an assortment of minor prints and watercolors to tourists and small publications but only found a light if warm reception from curators as well as art gallery owners regarding his paintings.
According to some, Edward Hopper's discovery work was the piece titled The Mansard Roof, created in 1923 during the first summer he would spend in Gloucester, MA. A former fellow at student as well as his future wife, Josephine Nivison Hopper, advised Edward to submit the painting for consideration with the Brooklyn Museum for their yearly watercolor exhibit, as well a few additional paintings. The Mansard Roof was bought by the museum to be included their permanent collection for the price of $100.
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Summer Evening - Edward Hopper
During the year 1925, Hopper produced the painting House by the Railroad, a classic piece which was a mark of him attaining a higher level in his artistic adulthood. The work is the foremost of a series of bare city and rural settings, all applying crisp lines as well as heavy forms, with strange lighting to focus on the solitary mood of his subjects. He took his themes from the ordinary aspects of American living - gas stations, motels, a railroad or an vacant street - as well as the denizens who dwell in such places.
Hopper kept painting during his advanced years, splitting his time from New York City and Truro, Massachusetts. He passed away in 1967 while in his studio close to Washington Square, in New York City. His spouse, artist Josephine Nivison, who died ten months afterward, left his work to the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Although Hopper's pictures are extremely accessible, he was viewed frequently as exceedingly estranged because he had abandoned commercial illustration to devote his professional life to his personal work.
The most familiar of Hopper's works, Nighthawks, depicts customers seated at the counter of an all night diner. The diner's abrasive electric lighting severs it from the dark night outdoors, raising the temper and elusive emotion of the piece. The picture carries the factors of confinement as well as loneliness. One critic, Walter Wells, views in the painting as the influence of Ernest Hemingway's story, "A Clean Well-Lighted Place," with picture and tale symbolizing a "sanctuary against the ultimate night in a world without God or spiritual solace."
Hopper kept painting during his advanced years, splitting his time from New York City and Truro, Massachusetts. He passed away in 1967 while in his studio close to Washington Square, in New York City. His spouse, artist Josephine Nivison, who died ten months afterward, left his work to the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Although Hopper's pictures are extremely accessible, he was viewed frequently as exceedingly estranged because he had abandoned commercial illustration to devote his professional life to his personal work.
The most familiar of Hopper's works, Nighthawks, depicts customers seated at the counter of an all night diner. The diner's abrasive electric lighting severs it from the dark night outdoors, raising the temper and elusive emotion of the piece. The picture carries the factors of confinement as well as loneliness. One critic, Walter Wells, views in the painting as the influence of Ernest Hemingway's story, "A Clean Well-Lighted Place," with picture and tale symbolizing a "sanctuary against the ultimate night in a world without God or spiritual solace."
Gas - Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper Selected Paintings & Works
A Woman in the Sun 1961 Whitney Museum of American ArtAmerican Village 1912 Whitney Museum of American Art
and Hartford 1931 Indianapolis Museum of Art
Après-midi de juin 1907 Whitney Museum of American Art
August in the City 1945 Norton Gallery of Art
Automat 1927 Des Moines Art Center
Blackhead, Monhegan 1916-1919 Whitney Museum of American Art
Bridge in Paris 1906 Whitney Museum of American Art
Cape Cod Afternoon 1936 Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
Cape Cod Evening 1939 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Cape Cod Morning 1950 National Museum of American Art
Chair Car 1965 Private collection
Chop Suey 1929 Barney A. Ebsworth Collection
Coast Guard Station 1927 Montclair Art Museum
Cobb's Barns, South Truro 1930-1933 Whitney Museum of American Art
Compartiment C, Car 193 1938 IBM Corporation Collection
Conference at Night 1949 Wichita Art Museum
Corn Hill Truro, Cape Cod 1930 McNay Art Institute, San Antonio
Dauphinée House 1932 ACA Galleries
Dawn in Pennsylvania Terra Museum of American Art
Drug Store 1927 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Early Sunday Morning 1930 Whitney Museum of American Art
Excursion into Philosophy 1959 Private collection
Four Lane Road 1956 Private collection
Gas 1940 Museum of Modern Art
Ground Swell 1939 Corcoran Gallery of Art
Hotel by a Railroad 1952 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Hotel Lobby 1943 Indianapolis Museum of Art
Hotel Room 1931 Fondation Thyssen-Bornemisza
Hotel Window 1956 The Forbes Magazine Collection
House at Dusk 1935 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
House by the Railroad 1925 Museum of Modern Art
Intermission 1963 Private collection
Le pavillon de Flore 1909 Whitney Museum of American Art
Le Pont des Arts 1907 Whitney Museum of American Art
Le Pont Royal 1909 Whitney Museum of American Art
Le Quai des Grands Augustins 1909 Whitney Museum of American Art
Les lavoirs à Pont Royal 1907 Whitney Museum of American Art
Lighthouse Hill 1927 Dallas Museum of Art
Louvre and Boat Landing 1907 Whitney Museum of American Art
Macomb's Dam Bridge 1935 Brooklyn Museum
Manhattan Bridge Loop 1928 Addison Gallery of American Art
Morning in a City 1944 Williams College Museum of Art
Morning Sun 1952 Columbus Museum of Art
New York Movie 1939 Museum of Modern Art
New York Office 1962 Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Night Shadows etching 1921 Museum of Modern Art
Night Windows 1928 Museum of Modern Art
Nighthawks 1942 Art Institute of Chicago
Noon 1949 Dayton Art Institute
Office at Night 1940 Walker Art Center Minneapolis
Office in a Small City 1953 Metropolitan Museum of Art
Painter and Model 1902-1904 Whitney Museum of American Art
Pennsylvania Coal Town 1947 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH
People in the Sun 1960 National Museum of American Art Washington, D.C.
Queensborough Bridge 1913 Whitney Museum of American Art
Railroad Crossing 1922-1923 Whitney Museum of American Art
Railroad Sunset 1929 Whitney Museum of American Art
Road in Maine 1914 Whitney Museum of American Art
Room in New York 1932 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden
Rooms by the Sea 1951 Yale University Art Gallery
Rooms for Tourists 1945 Yale University Art Gallery
Sea Watchers 1952 Private collection
Second Story Sunlight 1960 Whitney Museum of American Art
Self-Portrait 1925-1930 Whitney Museum of American Art
Seven AM 1948 Whitney Museum of American Art
Soir bleu 1914 Whitney Museum of American Art
Solitude 1944 Private collection
South Carolina Morning 1955 Whitney Museum of American Art
Squam Light 1912
Stairways 1919 Whitney Museum of American Art
Summer Evening 1947 Private collection
Summer Interior 1909 Whitney Museum of American Art
Summertime 1943 Delaware Art Museum
Sun in an Empty Room 1963 Private collection
Sunday 1926 Phillips Collection Washington, D.C.
Sunlight in a Cafeteria 1958 Yale University Art Gallery
Tables for Ladies 1930 Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Circle Theater 1936 Private collection
The City 1927 University of Arizona Museum of Art
The El Station 1908 Whitney Museum of American Art
The Lighthouse at Two Lights 1929 Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Locomotive etching 1923 Hirschl & Adler
The Long Leg 1935 The Huntington Library Collection
The Louvre in a Thunderstorm 1909 Whitney Museum of American Art
The Mansard Roof watercolor 1923 Brooklyn Museum
The New York Restaurant 1922 Muskegon Art Museum Michigan
The Wine Shop 1909 Whitney Museum of American Art
Two Comedians 1965 Private collection
Western Motel 1957 Yale University Art Gallery
Two on the Aisle - Edward Hopper
Ground Swell - Edward Hopper
Self Portrait - Edward Hopper
Room in New York - Edward Hopper
Nighthawks - Edward Hopper
New York Restaurant - Edward Hopper
New York Office - Edward Hopper
House by the Railroad - Edward Hopper
Hotel Room - Edward Hopper
High Noon - Edward Hopper
Haskells House - Edward Hopper
Cape Cod Morning - Edward Hopper
Automat - Edward Hopper
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