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Edward Hopper, Landscape, and Literature
Edward Hopper, Landscape, and Literature Gail LEVIN The art of Edward Hopper, the American realist painter, contains many clues that allow us to trace his interest in literature, which in turn helps to characterize his particular brand of realism. 1) Signs of Hopper’s engagement with literature emerge already in his boyhood. Born in 1882, Hopper grew up in Nyack, New York, a town on the Hudson River, some forty miles north of New York City, where he went to attend art school and lived as an adult, until his death in 1967, shortly before his eighty-fifth birthday. Among the early indications that literature affected Hopper is a plaque that he designed for a Boys’ Yacht Club, which he formed together with three pals. Hopper designed this plaque with the names of the members’ boats. While the other boys chose female names that were upbeat and innocuous, Edward’s choice, Water Witch (Fig. 1), telegraphs an effect of reading on his imagination. He took the name for his boat from The Water- Witch, James Fenimore Cooper’s 1830 novel that tells how the “exploits, mysterious character, and daring of the Water-Witch, and of him who sailed her, were in that day, the frequent subjects of anger, admiration and surprise.... ” 2) His boyhood interest led Hopper to build not only a sailboat but a canoe. Later he would remark, “I thought at one time I’d like to be a naval architect because I am interested in boats, but I got to be a Fig. 1: Edward Hopper, Water Witch on painter instead.” 3) His interest in nautical life sign, Private Collection. -
The Mind in Motion: Hopper's Women Through Sartre's Existential Freedom
Intercultural Communication Studies XXIV(1) 2015 WANG The Mind in Motion: Hopper’s Women through Sartre’s Existential Freedom Zhenping WANG University of Louisville, USA Abstract: This is a study of the cross-cultural influence of Jean-Paul Sartre on American painter Edward Hopper through an analysis of his women in solitude in his oil paintings, particularly the analysis of the mind in motion of these figures. Jean-Paul Sartre was a twentieth century French existentialist philosopher whose theory of existential freedom is regarded as a positive thought that provides human beings infinite possibilities to hope and to create. His philosophy to search for inner freedom of an individual was delivered to the US mainly through his three lecture visits to New York and other major cities and the translation by Hazel E. Barnes of his Being and Nothingness. Hopper is one of the finest painters of the twentieth-century America. He is a native New Yorker and an artist who is searching for himself through his painting. Hopper’s women figures are usually seated, standing, leaning forward toward the window, and all are looking deep out the window and deep into the sunlight. These women are in their introspection and solitude. These figures are usually posited alone, but they are not depicted as lonely. Being in outward solitude, they are allowed to enjoy the inward freedom to desire, to imagine, and to act. The dreaming, imagining, expecting are indications of women’s desires, which display their interior possibility or individual agency. This paper is an attempt to apply Sartre’s philosophy to see that these women’s individual agency determines their own identity, indicating the mind in motion. -
Ground Swell
National Gallery of Art NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ONLINE EDITIONS American Paintings, 1900–1945 Edward Hopper American, 1882 - 1967 Ground Swell 1939 oil on canvas overall: 91.92 × 127.16 cm (36 3/16 × 50 1/16 in.) framed: 127.3 × 152.4 cm (50 1/8 × 60 in.) Inscription: lower right: EDWARD HOPPER; on reverse of frame: frame made for / Edward Hopper by / Carl Sandelin framemaker / 133 E 60th St NYC. Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund) 2014.79.23 ENTRY In a vast expanse of open sea, a catboat heels gently to starboard as it navigates a course that has brought it close to a bell buoy. [1] Under feathery cirrus clouds and a brilliant blue sky, the boat’s three passengers and pilot gaze at, and presumably listen to, the buoy’s bell, which tilts toward them as it crests one of a sequence of rolling waves. Although Edward Hopper is renowned for lonely urban scenes that have led his work to be understood as emblematic of the mood of the modern city and the isolation of its inhabitants, he was also a dedicated painter of nautical subjects. Born in Nyack, New York, Hopper spent his formative years sketching the maritime industry of this bustling shipbuilding port on the Hudson River. [2] From 1930 onward, Hopper and his wife, Josephine “Jo” Nivison, whom he had met in art school, spent summers painting in Truro, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. In 1934 they built a cottage in South Truro; Ground Swell was painted in the adjacent studio. -
American Realism: an Independence of Style the Ashcan School
AMERICAN REALISM: AN INDEPENDENCE OF STYLE THE ASHCAN SCHOOL Lecture 2 – The Spaces Between Us: The Art of Edward Hopper JAMES HILL – 4 MAY, 2021 READING LIST Michael Lewis American Art and Architecture, 2006, Thames & Hudson. Edward Lucie Smith American Realism, 1994, Thames & Hudson. Robert A Slaton Beauty in the City - The Ashcan School, 2017, Excelsior Editions. Colin Bailey et al The World of William Glackens - The C. Richard Art Lectures, 2011, Sansom Foundation/ Art Publishers. Gail Levin Edward Hopper – The Art and the Artist, 1981 – Whitney Museum of American Art/Norton Whitney. Rolf G Renner. Hopper, 2015 – Taschen. Judith A Barter et al America after the Fall - Painting in the 1930s, 2017, The Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press. SLIDE LIST Edward Hopper, Self Portrait, 1925, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Edward Hopper, Caricature of Hopper as a Boy with Books on Freud and Jung, 1925-35, Private Collection. Edward Hopper, Night Shadows, 1928, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Edward Hopper, Evening Wind, 1921, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Edward Hopper, Summer Interior, 1909, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Robert Henri, Blackwell’s Island, 1900, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Edward Hopper, Blackwell’s Island, 1911, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Edward Hopper, Louvre in a Thunderstorm, 1909, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Edward Hopper, Soir Bleu, 1914, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York John Sloan, Hairdresser’s Window, 1907, Wadsworth -
Raymond Carver James Plath, Illinois Wesleyan University
Illinois Wesleyan University From the SelectedWorks of James Plath May 1, 2013 Critical Insights: Raymond Carver James Plath, Illinois Wesleyan University Available at: https://works.bepress.com/james_plath/3/ The Carver Triangle: Lost in an Edward Hopper World _____________ James Plath "Ray and I were aware from What We Talk About on ... of the simi larities between Hopper's tonal elements, his use of couples, the stripped down interiors and run-out-of-chances feel to some paintings-and Ray's stories."l Tess Gallagher Like the Bermuda Triangle where ships and planes purportedly disap pear, the oftentriangular structure of Raymond Carver's fictioncreates a restricted area-both temporally and spatially-where characters become or stay lost. Furthermore, the sense of helplessness and defla tion that the point-of-view characters feel is heightened by Carver's frequent manipulation of another triangle-Freytag'spyramid, which German theorist Gustav Freytag used to explain the structure of drama. At the base of this illustrative pyramid lies background exposition with a rising action that builds via a series of crises to an apex or climax, fol lowed by a falling action and a leveling off, or denouement.' As Carver explained to an interviewer, "Most of my stories start pretty near the end of the arc of the dramatic conflict"(Gentry and Stull 229). As such, Carver's fictioncan best be described as fiction of aftermath, since the main complications and rising action-even the climax of many sto ries-have already occurred before the narrative begins. His narrators are at a loss for words because they can't explain what recently hap pened to them or fighta malaise they're experiencing-an inescapable feeling of being trapped or down for the count. -
Artists in Hollywood: Thomas Hart Benton and Nathanael West Picture America’S Dream Dump
9 Artists in Hollywood: Thomas Hart Benton and Nathanael West Picture America’s Dream Dump Erika Doss University of Notre Dame In the late 1930s two American artists, one a popular painter and the other a struggling novelist, depicted Hollywood in different yet related projects. Thomas Hart Benton’s mural-sized painting Hollywood (1937-38) was intended, the artist remarked, to show that the movie industry was “pre- dominantly an economically conditioned Art” (Color plate 1). As Benton wrote in “Hollywood Journey,” a short essay describing the month he spent sketching Southern California’s movie studios: The movie Art is not only a business but a busi- ness expression. It speaks in by and through the patterns of the American business mind. It is go-getter, optimistic, sentimental, politically conservative. It sings and clowns in Rotary Club fashion, and romances with a high regard for the status quo in everything. (Benton, “Hollywood Journey”).1 In his satirical novel The Day of the Locust (1939), Nathanael West similarly framed Tinseltown as an industry run by “damn good business men” who despite being “intellectual stumblebums” had a “strangle hold” over the movies. From its assembly-line production system to the orchestrated riots of its movie premieres, Hollywood’s “dream factory,” West elaborated, was determinedly—and destructively—a “picture business” (Locust 253, 255). Both artists were well aware of Hollywood’s preferred and repeat- edly self-promoted image as a “leisure utopia” of big-name stars and luxu- rious mansions (May, Screening 167). Likewise, both realized the popular and powerful national fantasy of “making it” in the movies as the pinnacle of the American Dream. -
Edward Hopper a Catalogue Raisonne
Edward Hopper A Catalogue Raisonne Volume III Oils Gail Levin Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in associalion wilh W. W. Norton & Company, New York • London American Village, 1912 (0-183) City, The, ig27 (0-252) Index of Titles Apartment Houses, 1923 (0-242) City Hoofs, ig32 (0-288) [Apartment Houses, Harlem River], City Sunlight, 1954 (0-550) Oils c. 1930(0-275) [Clamdigger], 1^55(0-297) Approaching a City, 1946 (0-332) Coast Guard Station, 1929(0-267) Apres midi de Juin or L'apres midi de [Cobb's Barns und Distant Houses], 1930-35 Prinletnps, 1907 (0-143) (0-278) [Artist's Bedroom, NyackJ, c. 1905-06 [Cobb's Barns, South Truro], 1950-55 (0-122) (0-279) [Artist's Bedroom, Nyack, The], c. 1905- Compartment C, Car 293, 1938 (0-506) 06 (0-121) Conference at Night, ig4g (0-338) [Artist Sealed at Easel]', igo3~o6 (0-84) [Copy after Edouard Manet's Woman with August in the City, 1945 (0-329) a Parrot], c. 1902-03 (0-19) Automat, 1927 (0-251) CornBeltCity 1947 (0-554) Corn Hill, Truro, 1930 (0-272) [Back of Seated Male Nude Model], [Cottage and Fence], c. igo4-o6 (0-97) c. 1902-04 (0-28) [Cottage in Foliage], c. 1 go4-o6 (0-98) Barber Shop, 1931 (0-285) /Country Road], c. 1897 (0-4) /Bedroom], c. 1905-06 (0-124) Cove at Ogunquit, 1914 (0-193) Berge, La (0-171) Bistro, Le or The Wine Shop, 1909 (0-174) Dauphinee House, 1952 (0-286) [Blackhead, Monhegan], 1916-19 (0-220) Dawn Before Gettysburg, 1954 (0-295) [Blackhead, Monhegan], 1916-19 (0-221) Dawn in Pennsylvania, ig42 (0-323) [Blackhead, Monhegan], 1916-19 (0-222) [Don Quixote on Horseback], c. -
Press Release Contact: Tel
Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street New York, NY 10021 www.whitney.org/press Press Release Contact: Tel. (212) 570-3633 Jan Rothschild, Stephen Soba, Meghan Bullock Fax (212) 570-4169 June 2006 [email protected] A FULL FLOOR OF EDWARD HOPPER’S WORKS OPENS AT THE WHITNEY AS PART OF FULL HOUSE: VIEWS OF THE WHITNEY"S COLLECTION AT 75 Edward Hopper, Second Story Sunlight, 1960 In celebration of its 75th anniversary, the Whitney Museum is mounting Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75, a major new look at works from the permanent collection. For Full House, the entire fifth floor of the museum is devoted to the art of Edward Hopper (1882-1967), the artist most closely identified with the Whitney, which is home to the most extensive holdings of his work in the world. On view are not only the Whitney’s most iconic Hopper paintings (Seven A.M., Second Story Sunlight, A Woman in the Sun, and many more), but also an extraordinary selection of drawings and sketches made in preparation for these works. The Whitney’s holdings include more than 2,500 paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, and illustrated journals, which offer an unparalleled opportunity to see into the artist’s creative processes and study his work in depth. In addition to the Whitney’s holdings, major works from other institutions have been borrowed for this installation in order that they may be seen with their corresponding preparatory works. Over the course of the six-month installation, such masterworks as Nighthawks (from the Art Institute of Chicago), Hotel Lobby (Indianapolis Museum of Art), Morning in the City (Williams College Museum of Art), Cape Cod Evening (National Gallery), Office at Night (Walker Art Center), Hotel Window (from a private collection), and New York Movie (MoMA) will rotate into view along with Hopper’s related drawings, studies, and ledger entries from the Whitney’s collection. -
THE WHITNEY to PRESENT HOPPER DRAWING the First In-Depth Study of the Artist’S Working Process
THE WHITNEY TO PRESENT HOPPER DRAWING The First In-Depth Study of the Artist’s Working Process Edward Hopper (1882–1967), Study for Nighthawks, 1941 or 1942. Fabricated chalk and charcoal on paper; 11 1/8 x 15 in. (28.3 x 38.1 cm) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase and gift of Josephine N. Hopper by exchange 2011.65 © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NEW YORK, NY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013—This spring, the Whitney Museum celebrates Edward Hopper’s achievements as a draftsman in the first major museum exhibition to focus on the artist’s drawings and working process. Along with many of his most iconic paintings, the exhibition features more than 200 drawings, the most extensive presentation to date of Hopper’s achievement in this medium, pairing suites of preparatory studies and related works with such major oil paintings as New York Movie (1939), Office at Night (1940), Nighthawks (1942) and Morning in a City (1944). The show will be presented in the Museum’s third-floor Peter Norton Family Galleries from May 23 to October 6, before traveling to the Dallas Museum of Art from November 17, 2013 to February 6, 2014 and the Walker Art Center from March 15 to June 22, 2014. Culled from the Museum’s unparalleled collection of the artist’s work, and complemented by key loans, the show illuminates how the artist transformed ordinary subjects—an open road, a city street, an office space, a house, a bedroom—into extraordinary images. -
Téléchargez Le Dossier Pédagogique De L'exposition Edward Hopper
DOSSIER PÉDAGOGIQUE Edward HOPPER (1882 - 1967) Grand Palais - 10 oct. 2012 - 28 janv. 2013 © RmnGP - 2012 DOSSIER PÉDAGOGIQUE Edward HOPPER ∞ 10 Oct. 2012 - 28 janv. 2013 sommaire 03 INTRODUCTION 05 L’EXPOSITION 06 1 • Portrait. Qui est Edward Hopper ? 12 2 • Son œuvre. Que peint-il et comment ? 15 PISTES D'ÉTUDE POUR LES SCOLAIRES 16 1 • La ville 18 2 • Rails et routes 20 3 • Théâtre et cinéma 22 4 • Personnages en situation 24 ANNEXes 25 Chronologie biographique 26 Ch ronologie politique et culturelle des États-Unis • Liste des présidents des États-Unis • Événements 28 Documentation complémentaire • Bibliographie sommaire • Sites Internet de référence 29 P rogrammation pour les scolaires au Grand Palais 30 Dr oits d'images 2/30 © RmnGP - 2012 DOSSIER PÉDAGOGIQUE Edward HOPPER ∞ 10 Oct. 2012 - 28 janv. 2013 introducTION Qui est Edward Hopper ? Ses œuvres sont largement réutilisées par les publicitaires et le cinéma. Mais qui connait vraiment l'artiste ? L'exposition au Grand Palais est inédite. Elle embrasse la longue carrière du peintre américain, de son premier séjour à Paris en 1906 à ses dernières œuvres en 1967. Ill.2 Autoportrait. Quelques cinquante (1925-1930). New York. Whitney Museum of American Art tableaux, soit presque la moitié de sa production peinte, sont pour la première fois rassemblés et présentés au regard des artistes qui ont compté pour lui : Robert Henri, John Sloan mais aussi Rembrandt, Charles Meyrion, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet ou Albert Marquet. Dessins, gravures et aquarelles jamais exposés en France complètent la présentation de son œuvre. 3/30 © RmnGP - 2012 DOSSIER PÉDAGOGIQUE Edward HOPPER ∞ 10 Oct. -
American Paintings, 1900–1945
National Gallery of Art NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ONLINE EDITIONS American Paintings, 1900–1945 American Paintings, 1900–1945 Published September 29, 2016 Generated September 29, 2016 To cite: Nancy Anderson, Charles Brock, Sarah Cash, Harry Cooper, Ruth Fine, Adam Greenhalgh, Sarah Greenough, Franklin Kelly, Dorothy Moss, Robert Torchia, Jennifer Wingate, American Paintings, 1900–1945, NGA Online Editions, http://purl.org/nga/collection/catalogue/american-paintings-1900-1945/2016-09-29 (accessed September 29, 2016). American Paintings, 1900–1945 © National Gallery of Art, Washington National Gallery of Art NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ONLINE EDITIONS American Paintings, 1900–1945 CONTENTS 01 American Modernism and the National Gallery of Art 40 Notes to the Reader 46 Credits and Acknowledgments 50 Bellows, George 53 Blue Morning 62 Both Members of This Club 76 Club Night 95 Forty-two Kids 114 Little Girl in White (Queenie Burnett) 121 The Lone Tenement 130 New York 141 Bluemner, Oscar F. 144 Imagination 152 Bruce, Patrick Henry 154 Peinture/Nature Morte 164 Davis, Stuart 167 Multiple Views 176 Study for "Swing Landscape" 186 Douglas, Aaron 190 Into Bondage 203 The Judgment Day 221 Dove, Arthur 224 Moon 235 Space Divided by Line Motive Contents © National Gallery of Art, Washington National Gallery of Art NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ONLINE EDITIONS American Paintings, 1900–1945 244 Hartley, Marsden 248 The Aero 259 Berlin Abstraction 270 Maine Woods 278 Mount Katahdin, Maine 287 Henri, Robert 290 Snow in New York 299 Hopper, Edward 303 Cape Cod Evening 319 Ground Swell 336 Kent, Rockwell 340 Citadel 349 Kuniyoshi, Yasuo 352 Cows in Pasture 363 Marin, John 367 Grey Sea 374 The Written Sea 383 O'Keeffe, Georgia 386 Jack-in-Pulpit - No. -
Fitzgerald & Hopper
Fitzgerald and Hopper: Windows on the 1920s Kate Reber School of the Future Overview Rationale Objectives Background Strategies Classroom Activities Annotated Bibliography Appendices: Standards, Lesson Resources “Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life" – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Novels and paintings can offer us, “the casual watcher,” a chance go look into the windows of other worlds. This unit will unwind the tangle of ideas in this quote. We will look and wonder about the novel The Great Gatsby and the paintings of Edward Hopper. It is my hope that students will be enchanted by the masterful prose and art we encounter. I also anticipate that they will be repelled at times by works they find less accessible, characters they find unsavory, or ideas they find unwieldy. We will play with perspective – being within and without the text and images we study. After getting lost in the truly inexhaustible and varied body of work on Hopper and Fitzgerald I have arrived at unit that is itself a window into the 1920s. Overview This unit is designed to be taught in the second semester of English 3 at the School of the Future, a public comprehensive high school in West Philadelphia. English 3 is the district’s standard 11th Grade English course. I am dual-certified in English and Social Studies and I plan units and coordinate projects with the 11th Grade History teacher at my school.