Hopper: Nighthawks
Title: Nighthawks, 1942
Artist: Edward Hopper (American 1882-1967)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Permanent Collection: The Art Institute of Chicago; Friends of American Art Collection
Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago
Image Courtesy: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Edward Hopper
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
May 6 - August 19, 2007
American artist Edward Hopper excelled in three genres: paintings, watercolors, and prints. The Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston has organized an exhibit that examines Hopper in a carefully-selected exhibition of approximately 100 works along with
two ledger books featuring sketches and commentary by the artist. Among the many highlights will be his perhaps best known
work: Nighthawks.
Title: Early Sunday Morning, 1930
Artist: Edward Hopper (American 1882-1967)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Permanent Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Purchase, with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Photographs by Steven Sloman
Image Courtesy: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Edward Hopper, a major retrospective of one of the most beloved American
artists of all time, presents many of Hopper’s iconic images, admired for their
evocative presentations of American life from the Jazz Age through the years
following World War II,” said Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director of
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “This exhibition takes a fresh look at the
artist and his best-known works alongside a number of less familiar, yet equally
powerful, pictures.”
Title: Anderson’s House, 1926
Artist: Edward Hopper (American 1882-1967)
Medium: Watercolor over Graphite Pencil on Paper
Permanent Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Bequest of John T. Spaulding
Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Image Courtesy: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
One of Hopper's favorite subjects was Victorian Architecture.
Title: Captain Upton’s House, 1927
Artist: Edward Hopper (American 1882-1967)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Collection of Steve Martin
Image Courtesy: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The subject is popular now but not
in Hopper’s day. The artist can be credited for revealing their beauty. Anderson’s House depicts
a modest 1880s clapboard structure found on a busy street. That house stands today virtually unchanged.
Title: Self-Portrait, 1925-1930
Artist: Edward Hopper (American 1882-1967)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
© Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by the Whitney Museum of American Art;
Photographs by Robert E. Mates
Image Courtesy: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Edward Hopper traces the artist’s
career beginning with his first successes to his last great, poignant pictures.
Edward Hopper: Retrospective
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
May 6 - August 19 2007
National Gallery of Art, Washington:
September 16, 2007 – January 21, 2008
The Art Institute of Chicago:
February 16, 2008 – May 11, 2008
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