How did the acclaimed American artist Edward Hopper learn to paint? By copying other artists’ work out of instructional art magazines, it appears. A graduate student at the Courtauld Institute in ...
“Hopper: An American Love Story” will premiere at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1. The documentary follows the life of Edward Hopper, who traveled to New Mexico for inspiration.
For Edward Hopper, a rugged coastline or rural highway could be as psychologically charged as a café at night or a deserted city street. But the American artist’s landscapes tend to get overshadowed ...
"My aim in painting," Edward Hopper (1882-1967) once wrote, "has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature." And yet, to look at many of Hopper's best ...
In Alex Ross’ lyrical essay about the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, he describes the ending of Tarovsky’s masterpiece about a medieval Russian icon painter: “Suddenly, a black-and-white screen is filled ...
The Dayton Art Institute’s presentation of “The Quiet World of Edward Hopper” continues through Sept. 8. One of America’s most renowned artists, Hopper’s images of urban and rural environments helped ...
Is one of America’s foremost 20th-century artists a cheater? Realist painter Edward Hopper — best known for creating the iconic work “Nighthawks,” in which nighttime city diner patrons are viewed from ...
The artist’s New Yorkiest survey yet is filled with revelations, showing how he created his own private mini-city, starting at his rooftop. By Karen Rosenberg “Edward Hopper’s New York,” the Whitney’s ...
WATCH: A high-profile historian thinks so. But was it stolen? Or saved? Reporters Emily Sweeney and Malcolm Gay teamed up to dig into the claim. The self-portrait stored away at the Museum of Fine ...
MEATPACKING DISTRICT, Manhattan (WABC) -- When Oscar Wilde said life imitates art far more than art imitates life, he meant it figuratively. But if you wanted to interpret it literally, now you can.