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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 Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut Edward Hopper, Room in New York, 1932, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, Nebraska John Sloan, Sun and Wind on the Roof, 1915, Muir Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia Edward Hopper, Night Windows, 1928, MOMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York Giorgio De Chirico, Piazza D’Italia, 1948, Fondazione Giorgio de Chirico, Roma Charles Burchfield, Winter Twilight, 1930, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Edward Hopper, House by the Railroad, 1925, MOMA, New York Edward Hopper, Lighthouse Hill, 1927, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas Johannes Vermeer, Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, 1657, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden Edward Hopper, Morning in a City, 1944, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts Edward Hopper, Morning Sun, 1952, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio Edward Hopper, Automat, 1927, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa Edward Hopper, Hotel Lobby, 1947, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana Photo of Washington Square, New York circa 1940 Edward Hopper, Skyline near Washington Square, 1925, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York State Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Edward Hopper, Night Hawks, 1942, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Photo Still, The Killers, 1946 George Luks, Bleecker and Carmine Streets, 1915, Milwaukee Museum of Art Edward Hopper, Drugstore, 1927, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Edgar Degas, A Cotton Office in New Orleans, 1873, Musée des Beaux Arts, Pau. Edward Hopper, Office at Night, 1940, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Photo of Josephine Nivison Hopper Edward Hopper, New York Movie, 1939, MOMA, New York Edward Hopper, Western Motel, 1957, Yale University Art Gallery, Newhaven, Connecticut Edward Hopper, Room in New York, 1932, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, Nebraska Edward Hopper, Summer Evening, 1947, Private Collection Edward Hopper, Conference at Night, 1939, Wichita Art Museum, Kansas, Ohio Edward Hopper, Rooms by the Sea, 1951, Yale University Art Gallery, Newhaven, Connecticut Photo of Edward Hopper at Truro, Massachusetts in the early 1960s Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World, 1948, MOMA, New York René Magritte, Empire of Light II, 1950, MOMA, New York Ed Ruscha, Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas, 1963, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Edward Hopper, Gas, 1940, MOMA, New York Richard Estes, Supreme Hardware, 1974, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Photo still, The American Friend, 1977 George Shaw, Tile Hill, Coventry – The Age of Bullshit, 2010, Private Collection Norman Rockwell, Saturday Evening Post – Gossip, 1948, Normal Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts Norman Rockwell, Christmas Homecoming, 1948, Normal Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts Norman Rockwell, Art Critic, 1955, Normal Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts .
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