The Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center , Nyack, New York. Hopper was born in 1882 and his boyhood home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. It is now operated as the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Cen
On the top floor of this incredible time capsule is the bedroom where Hopper grew up and started painting. Hopper spent the first 28 years of his life in the house and continued to visit his family here throughout his lifetime.
In the foyer of the Hopper House reproductions of many of his works are displayed, along with a screen playing a documentary and interview with Hopper. Displayed on the screen is Automat, painted in 1927 by Hopper. The painting was fir
In 1930 Hopper, by now married to Josephine Nivison , rented a cottage in South Truro, Cape Cod. The couple returned every summer for the rest of their lives, building a summer house there in 1934. The landscapes and buildings of the area serve
"Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. ” - Edward Hopper
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"Throughout his career, Hopper was fascinated by dramatic lighting and nowhere is this more evident than in his nighttime pictures, where brightly lit interiors contrast with the darkness outside. Glowing fluorescent or electrical lights, which illu
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"Emptiness and silence pervade Hopper's scenes. New Yorkers find themselves alone in the supposed privacy of their homes and hotel rooms, but also in the public realm of restaurants, lobbies, theaters, and the street." - Biography in National Gall
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"Aloneness is his (Hopper's) great theme, symbolizing America: insecure selfhoods in a country that is only abstractly a nation." - The New Yorker
"Hopper used to grumble that those who talked about his paintings overdid ‘the loneliness thing.’ Nonethe­less, his best pictures seem to depict the experience of isolation: Hopper’s people are lost within themselves even when they are in the presen
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"Edward Hopper belongs to a particular category of artist whose work appears sad but does not make us sad – the painterly counterpart to Bach or Leonard Cohen." - Alain de Botton
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