1. EDWARD HOPPER American Artist

2. Edward Hopper.  Born: July 22, 1882, Nyack, New York, United States (A).  Died: May 15, 1967, New York City, New York, United States.  Married: Josephine Nivison Hopper (m. 1924 – 1967)

3. Edward Hopper.  Moved to New York in 1900 to study at the New York School of Art for 6 years.  Traveled to Paris in 1906, 1907 and 1909.  Spent his summers in Gloucester, Santa Fe, Cape Cod, South Truro, Maine, or Mexico. View across Interior Courtyard at 48 rue de Lille, Paris1906 oil on wood33 x 23.5 cmCollection of Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest 70.1307. Photograph © 1999: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/hopper/p03.html Jo Sketching at Good Harbor Beach 1925–28 watercolor35.2 x 50.8 cmCollection of Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine Hopper Bequest 70.1129. Photograph © 1999: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

4. Influences:  New York School of Art (1900 – 1906).  William Merritt Chase. (Leading American Impressionist).

5. Influences:  New York School of Art (1900 – 1906).  Robert Henri. Encouraged his students to paint the everyday conditions of their own world in a realistic manner. Robert Henri's Life Drawing Class at the New York School of Art 1903–04 Collection of Rev. Arthayer R. Sanborn http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/hopper/p02.html

6. Influences:  After his travels to Europe “…he developed an enduring attachment to the work of Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet, whose compositional devices and depictions of modern urban life would influence him for years to come”. Manet A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882) Oil on canvas, 96x130cm Degas L'Absinthe (1876) Oil on canvas, 92x68 cm

7. Techniques:  Oil Paint.  Printmaking (1915): Etching and Drypoint.  Watercolours.

8. Style:  Realism.  “…clearly outlined forms of strongly defined lighting a cropped composition with an almost cinematic view point, and a mood of eerie stillness.”  “His chosen locations are often vacant of human activity.”

9. ‘Early Sunday Morning’ (1930)  Dfgsdhsrh Early Sunday Morning, 1930. Oil on canvas, 35 × 60 in. (88.9 × 152.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.426

10. ‘New York Movie’ (1939)  Kgfkh New York Movie, 1939. Oil on canvas 321⁄4x401/8in. (81.9×101.9cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York; given anonymously

11. ‘Office at Night’ (1940)  rgseg Office at Night, 1940. Oil on canvas, 22 3/16 × 25 1/8 in. (56.4 × 63.8 cm). Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Gift of the T. B. Walker Foundation, Gilbert M. Walker Fund

12. ‘Nighthawk’ (1942)  rgseg Nighthawks, 1942. Oil on canvas, 33 1/8 × 60 in. (84.1 × 152.4 cm). The Art Institute of Chicago; Friends of American Art Collection

13. ‘Sun in an empty room’ (1963)  Hdugjc Sun in an Empty Room, 1963. Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 × 39 1/2 in. (73 × 100.3 cm). Private collection