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Edward Hopper maintained a lifelong interest in nautical themes, a passion that began in his early life growing up in the village of Nyack, New York, once known for its port and former shipbuilding industry on the west bank of the Hudson River. As a teenager in Nyack, Hopper was an introvert; his father persuaded him to build a sailboat to try ...
US president Barack Obama in the Oval Office (2014) with two of Hopper's 1930s South Truro works, Cobb's Barns (upper) and Burly Cobb's House. Since 1930, Hopper and Jo had spent every summer in South Truro, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, where Hopper began focusing on the Cape's unique sunlight and, in 1930 alone, painted such works as South Truro Church, Corn Hill, Hills, and South Truro. [1]
A town on Cape Ann founded by fishermen in 1663, Gloucester became a thriving art colony visited by early Modernists such as Stuart Davis, Childe Hassam, and Maurice Prendergast. By 1924, Hopper had produced enough work to mount an exhibition of watercolors at the Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery in New York, which sold out.
Artists including Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and many others [2] working on Rocky Neck in the 19th and early 20th centuries inspired the Cape Ann style of American Impressionism. Artists still work and display their art in the many Rocky Neck galleries during the summer months.
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker.He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for his skill in capturing American life and landscapes through his art.
Sun in an Empty Room is a 1963 painting by American realist Edward Hopper (1882–1967). Created during his late period at his Cape Cod summer home and studio in South Truro, Massachusetts, the painting was completed just four years prior to his death at the age of 84. The work depicts a room, seemingly empty, illuminated by sunlight coming ...
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Lighthouse and Buildings, Portland Head, Cape Elizabeth, Maine: Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper: 1927: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: 34.3 cm x 49.5 cm: Lighthouse Hill: 1927: Dallas Museum of Art: Captain Upton's House: Oil on canvas: 1927: collection of Steve Martin: 71.8 cm x 92.1 cm (28 1/4 in. x 36 1/4 in.) Coast Guard Station