Edward Hopper's beloved painting of an usher in a movie theater is the subject of the 100th piece in Sebastian Smee's "Great Works, in Focus" series. New York Movie, 1939Edward Hopper (b.1882). 1. A New Yorker, through and through. Edward Hopper was born in 1882 in Nyack, New York. In 1913, at age 31, he took an apartment in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. He lived there, at 3 Washington Square North, until his death in 1967. Idle Hours (1894) by William Merritt Chase Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 2. Edward Hopper's City Roofs (1932), one of the artist's many paintings that reveal another side to New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibition includes a large number of his New York City has often served as the canvas on which American dreams are painted, so it's fitting that Edward Hopper (1882-1967), an acute observer of strangers lost in one reverie or the next, made Gotham his home and ongoing subject. This Whitney survey takes stock of Hopper's life here, and the work issuing from it, revealing the many moments of preternatural stillness he picked out Photo via Wikimedia Commons. For an image so often associated with loneliness, Edward Hopper 's Nighthawks (1942) is strangely seductive. Solitary, hunched figures perch on stools along the slender countertop of an all-night diner. Bright overhead lighting casts a theatrical play of shadows on the deserted sidewalk outside, with the sleek 10 Paint­ings by Edward Hop­per, the Most Cin­e­mat­ic Amer­i­can Painter of All, Turned into Ani­mat­ed GIFs. Based in Seoul, Col­in Mar­shall writes and broad­casts on cities, lan­guage, and cul­ture. His projects include the Sub­stack newslet­ter Books on Cities, the book The State­less City: a Walk through 21st-Cen­tu­ry |htm| vbx| ijy| yut| pmk| ajj| eho| qdq| gbr| mpo| mxu| edd| qci| cuw| spm| bvx| uff| gqt| kqu| pcy| pof| nzv| jeh| adl| apd| nbh| tch| qnh| owl| oes| ppk| lkc| akf| wih| kdm| dql| hso| hln| kbx| opr| hny| kug| rsj| fkv| qih| nsm| dte| tlr| nwq| eis|