Hopper Drawing: A Painter鈥檚 Process
Hopper Drawing: A Painter鈥檚 Process is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the drawings and creative process of Edward Hopper (1882鈥�1967). More than anything else, Hopper鈥檚 drawings reveal the continually evolving relationship between observation and invention in the artist鈥檚 work, and his abiding interest in the spaces and motifs鈥攖he street, the movie theater, the office, the bedroom, the road鈥攖hat he would return to throughout his career as an artist.
This exhibition, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, showcases drawings bequeathed to the museum by the artist鈥檚 widow Josephine Hopper, many of which have never before been exhibited or researched. The show surveys Hopper鈥檚 significant and underappreciated achievements as a draftsman, and will pair many of his greatest oil paintings鈥攊ncluding Office at Night (1940), an important piece from the Walker Art Center鈥檚 collection鈥攚ith their preparatory drawings and related works. The exhibition also features groundbreaking archival research into the buildings, spaces, and urban environments that inspired his work.
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Hopper Drawing: A Painter鈥檚 Process is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the drawings and creative process of Edward Hopper (1882鈥�1967). More than anything else, Hopper鈥檚 drawings reveal the continually evolving relationship between observation and invention in the artist鈥檚 work, and his abiding interest in the spaces and motifs鈥攖he street, the movie theater, the office, the bedroom, the road鈥攖hat he would return to throughout his career as an artist.
This exhibition, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, showcases drawings bequeathed to the museum by the artist鈥檚 widow Josephine Hopper, many of which have never before been exhibited or researched. The show surveys Hopper鈥檚 significant and underappreciated achievements as a draftsman, and will pair many of his greatest oil paintings鈥攊ncluding Office at Night (1940), an important piece from the Walker Art Center鈥檚 collection鈥攚ith their preparatory drawings and related works. The exhibition also features groundbreaking archival research into the buildings, spaces, and urban environments that inspired his work.
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