{"id":214550,"date":"2022-12-19T03:26:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T18:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/?p=214550"},"modified":"2022-12-19T03:26:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T18:44:46","slug":"the-whitney-museum-organizes-the-first-exhibition-to-focus-on-edward-hoppers-life-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/en\/art\/the-whitney-museum-organizes-the-first-exhibition-to-focus-on-edward-hoppers-life-in-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whitney Museum Organizes The First Exhibition To Focus On Edward Hopper\u2019s Life In New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Whitney Museum of American Art\u2019s exhibition \u201cEdward Hopper\u2019s New York\u201d offers an unprecedented examination of Hopper\u2019s life and work in the city that he called home for nearly six decades<\/h3>\r\n

B<\/span>ringing together many of Edward Hopper\u2019s most iconic city works to showcase a complex and compelling portrait of a rapidly developing New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art\u2019s exhibition \u201cEdward Hopper\u2019s New York\u201d offers an unprecedented examination of Hopper\u2019s life and work in the city that he called home for nearly six decades. The exhibition charts the artist\u2019s enduring fascination with the city through more than 200 paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings from the Whitney\u2019s preeminent collection of Hopper\u2019s work, loans from public and private collections, and archival materials including printed ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and notebooks. From early sketches to paintings from late in his career, \u201cEdward Hopper\u2019s New York\u201d reveals a vision of the metropolis that is as much a manifestation of Hopper himself as it is a record of a changing city, whose perpetual and sometimes tense reinvention feels particularly relevant today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930. Photo courtesy of The Whitney Museum of American Art.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

The exhibition is organized by Kim Conaty and Melina Lang and features instantly recognizable paintings featured in the exhibition, such as \u201cAutomat,\u201d \u201cEarly Sunday Morning,\u201d \u201cRoom in New York,\u201d \u201cNew York Movie,\u201d and \u201cMorning Sun\u201d alongside lesser-known yet critically important compositions including a series of watercolors of New York rooftops and bridges and the painting \u201cCity Roofs.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

In a press statement, Whitney Museum Director Adam D. Weinberg shares, \u201cEdward Hopper\u2019s New York <\/em>offers a remarkable opportunity to celebrate an ever-changing yet timeless city through the work of an American icon. As New York bounces back after two challenging years of global pandemic, this exhibition reconsiders the life and work of Edward Hopper, serves as a barometer of our times, and introduces a new generation of audiences to Hopper\u2019s work by a new generation of scholars. This exhibition offers fresh perspectives and radical new insights.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Edward Hopper\u2019s career and work have been a touchstone for the Whitney since before the Museum was founded. In 1920, at the age of thirty-seven, Hopper had his first solo exhibition at the Whitney Studio Club. He was included in a number of exhibitions there before it closed in 1928 to make way for the Whitney Museum of American Art, which opened in 1931. Hopper\u2019s work appeared in the inaugural Whitney Biennial in 1932 and in twenty-nine subsequent Biennials and Annuals through 1965, as well as several group exhibitions. The Whitney was among the first museums to acquire a Hopper painting for its collection. In 1968, Hopper\u2019s widow, the artist Josephine Nivison Hopper bequeathed the entirety of his artistic holdings\u20132,500 paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings\u2013and many of her own works from their Washington Square studio residence. Today the Whitney\u2019s collection holds over 3,100 works by Hopper, more than any other museum in the world.<\/p>\r\n

Organized in thematic chapters spanning Hopper\u2019s entire career, the exhibition comprises eight sections including four expansive gallery spaces showcasing many of Hopper\u2019s most celebrated paintings and four pavilions that focus on key topics through dynamic groupings of paintings, works on paper, and archival materials, many of which have rarely been exhibited to the public.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cEdward Hopper\u2019s New York\u201d begins with early sketches and paintings from the artist\u2019s first years traveling into and around the city, from 1899 to 1915, as he grew from a commuting art student to a Greenwich Village resident.<\/p>\r\n

Although Hopper aspired to recognition as a painter, his first successes came in print through his illustrations and etchings, an important history featured in a section of the exhibition titled \u201cThe City in Print.\u201d His artworks for illustrations and published commissions for magazines and advertisements often featured urban motifs inspired by New York\u2014theaters, restaurants, offices, and city dwellers\u2014that would become foundational to his art. During this early period, he also consolidated many of his impressions of New York through etchings like \u201cEast Side Interior\u201d and \u201cThe Open Window,\u201d which preview the dramatic use of light that has become synonymous with Hopper\u2019s work.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cEdward Hopper\u2019s New York\u201d presents, for the first time together, the artist's panoramic cityscapes, installed as a group in a section of the exhibition titled \u201cThe Horizontal City.\u201d Early \u201cSunday Morning,\u201d \u201cManhattan Bridge Loop,\u201d \u201cBlackwell\u2019s Island,\u201d \u201cApartment Houses,\u201d \u201cEast River,\u201d and \u201cMacomb\u2019s Dam Bridge,\u201d five paintings made between 1928 and 1935, all share nearly identical dimensions and format. Seen together, they offer invaluable insight into Hopper\u2019s contrarian vision of the growing city at a time when New York was increasingly defined by its relentless skyward development.<\/p>\r\n

Throughout his career, Hopper explored the city with sketchbook in hand, recording his observations through drawing, a practice highlighted in this section of the exhibition. A large selection of his sketches and preparatory studies on view in \u201cSketching New York\u201d chart Hopper\u2019s favored locations across the city, many of which the artist returned to again and again in order to capture different impressions that he could later explore on canvas.<\/p>\r\n

The final section of \u201cEdward Hopper\u2019s New York\u201d presents a group of ambitious late paintings, characterized by radically simplified geometry and uncanny, dreamlike settings, revealing how New York increasingly served as a stage set or backdrop for Hopper\u2019s evocative distillations of urban experience. In works such as \u201cMorning in a City,\u201d \u201cSunlight on Brownstones,\u201d and \u201cSunlight in a Cafeteria,\u201d Hopper created compositions that depart from specific sites while still tapping into urban sensations, reflecting his desire, as noted in his personal journal \u201cNotes on Painting\u201d, to create a \u201crealistic art from which fantasy can grow.\u201d<\/p><\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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