Edward Hopper
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Born in Nyack (New York State) 22.07.1882
Family ¡ú solidly middle class
Father owned a goods store
1899 Hopper had already decided to become an artist
attended the New York School Of Illustrating
1900 tranfered to the New York School of Art
Hopper worked under William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri
1906 ¡ú Paris
1909 ¨C 1910 second trip to Europe
1913 first sale
1920 first solo exhibition1 at Witney Studio Club
Hopper had settled in Greenwich Village ¡ú base for the rest of his life
1923 friendship with Jo Nivison (¡úthey married in the following years)
1924 second solo show at the Rehn Gallery in N. Y. (sell-out2)
1933 given a retrospective3 exhibition at the Museum Of Modern Art
1950 retrospective show at the Whitney
view years later Hopper offten felt blocked and unable to paint
died in 1967, isolated if not forgotten
He painted: hotel, motels, trains, highways, restaurants, theatres, cinemas
Images: 1909 Summer Interior, 1925 Hous by the Railrod, 1927 Light at
Two Lights, 1939 Cape Cod Evening, 142 Nigthhawks
His true importance has only been fully realized in the years since his death.
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