#Hopper’s New York

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Edward Hopper

Jo Painting

1936

Oil on canvas

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New York Movie (1939) by Edward Hopper

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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, Night Windows, 1928

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House At Dusk, 1935, Room for Tourists, 1945, Night Windows, 1928, & Room in New York, 1932 by Edward Hopper / "I Look in People's Windows" by Taylor Swift

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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.  

Read other Milestone Monday posts here.

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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1939 - Edward Hopper, New York Movie Oil on canvas, 81,9 x 101,9 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Edward Hopper, New York Movie, 1939

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Le Bistro or The Wine Shop, 1909, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City - by Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967), American

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“La photographie, c'est la vérité et le cinéma 📽 , c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde...”

Jean-Luc Godard

Gif d'après Edward Hopper /New York Movie

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Edward Hopper

Rooftops

1926

Watercolor and graphite on paper

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Dennis Hopper checks out The Last Movie at the Twin Theaters, 59th Street, Manhattan, New York. Now closed & demolished October 4, 1971

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Edward Hopper, Sunlight on Brownstones, 1956. Oil on canvas.

Photo: Whitney Museum of American Art

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Edward Hopper, Morning Sun, 1952 

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The City, Edward Hopper, 1927

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Edward Hopper

New York Office

1962