Hopper, Edward

American painter and printmaker and the leading exponent of American Scene Painting.

Trained at the New York School of Art, Hopper initially worked in commercial illustration. However, after 1924, his reputation as a painter grew tremendously and his first retrospective exhibition was held at the MOMA, in New York, in 1933.

Although he was an accomplished printmaker, as well, he is most renowned for his paintings depicting city life. His most famous work is perhaps the Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago ) , depicting a typical all-night American-style dines and people inside it. The largest collection of his works is held by the Whitney Museum.

Selected Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries

1979   Edward Hopper: Prints and Illustrations, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY (solo) 1969   Edward Hopper: Retrospective, Detroit Institute of Arts and City Art Museum, St Louis (solo) 1964   Edward Hopper: Retrospective,Whitney Museum of American Art and Art Institute of Chicago (solo) 1963   Edward Hopper: Retrospective, Arizona Art Gallery, South Truro, MA (solo) 1962   The Complete Graphic Work of Edward Hopper, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (solo) 1959   Currier Gallery of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (solo) 1952   Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 1950   Edward Hopper: Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts (solo) 1933   Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo) 1929   Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans, MoMA, New York 1925   Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia 1924   Rehn Gallery, New York (solo) 1923   Humorist's Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York 1920   Whitney Studio Club, New York (solo) 1913   Armory Show, New York 1907   Participated in his first exhibition, Harmonie Club building, New York REPRESENTATIONAL ART AT PICASSOMIO MODERN MASTERS AT PICASSOMIO

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