Source Artist 1 (Edward Hopper)

Edward Hopper
(1882-1967)




The Evening Wind
Artist: Edward Hopper source: sheldon museum of fine art




Room in New York
Artist: Edward Hopper source: sheldon museum of fine art





Night Shadows
Artist: Edward Hopper source: sheldon museum of fine art


Edward Hopper was an American painter, printmaker, and illustrator. Like a lot of artists, his parents both supported him and worried for the unclear art future ahead of their son. After college, in 1906 Hopper worked for an advertising agency as a part time illustrator, but within the year was off to Paris to further pursue his career in fine arts. Two years later, he returned and partook in his first group show in NY. By 1910 Hopper started illustrating for work again, but spent his summers painting in MA. Hopper continued to work throughout his life. His painting “House by the Railroad” was the first painting aqcuired by the MOMA in NY. Hopper worked from inside himself. He was praised for his realism and for his personal content.
During the second half of Hopper’s life, his work is coming from a darker place. His feelings of loneliness and detachment fueled a whole new side of the artist. His work had more solitary figures and more conflict between the figures he worked with. My source is driven by loneliness so found it interesting how it seemed to affect Hopper’s later work.
Something about all three works shown here by Hopper screams isolation and loneliness to me.


Writings
‘John Sloan and the Philadelphians’, Arts, xi (1927), pp. 168–78
‘Charles Burchfield: American’, Arts, xiv (1928), pp. 5–12
‘Notes on Painting’, Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition (exh. cat. by A. H. Barr and C. Burchfield, New York, MOMA, 1933)
‘Edward Hopper: An Interview’, A. Amer., 1 (1960), pp. 60–63 [interview with John Morse]
Bibliography
G. Pène du Bois: Edward Hopper (New York, 1931)
L. Goodrich: Edward Hopper (Harmondsworth, 1949)
C. Zigrosser: ‘The Etchings of Edward Hopper’, Prints, ed. C. Zigrosser (New York, 1962), pp. 155–73
‘Edward Hopper/Environment USA, 1957–1967’, São Paulo 9 (exh. cat. by W. C. Seitz and L. Goodrich, Washington, DC, Smithsonian Inst., 1967), pp. 17–28
L. Goodrich: Edward Hopper (New York, 1971) [incl. reprints of three statements by Hopper]
G. Levin: Edward Hopper: The Complete Prints (New York, 1979)
Edward Hopper as Illustrator (exh. cat. by G. Levin, New York, Whitney, 1979)
Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist (exh. cat. by G. Levin, New York, Whitney; London, Hayward Gal.; Amsterdam, Stedel. Mus.; Düsseldorf, Stadt. Ksthalle; 1980)
G. Levin: Edward Hopper (New York, 1984)
G. Levin: Hopper’s Places (New York, 1985)
G. Levin: Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York, 1995)
Gail Levin