5/22/2023 0 Comments Edward Hopper by Wieland Schmied![]() ![]() Mecklenburg Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Washington, D.C. Mood was as important to Hopper as subject, as the statement he wrote for the catalogue of his 1933 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art makes clear: "My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature." Edward Hopper : Portraits of America Schmied, Wieland 121 ratings by Goodreads ISBN 10: 379134613X /ISBN 13: 9783791346137 Published by Prestel, 2011 NewCondition: NewSoft cover Save for Later FromGreatBookPrices(Columbia, MD, U.S.A. A lifelong New Yorker, Hopper took the loneliness of big city life as one of his most persistent themes, and his. Whether depicting daylight scenes or nocturnal environments, his paintings have an introspective, contemplative aura that is enhanced by his frequent use of solitary figures set against blank walls. One of the foremost chroniclers of pre-World War II American urbanism, painter and printmaker Edward Hopper depicted hauntingly isolated figures in diners, railroad cars, and rented rooms at the beginning of the twentieth century. ![]() In the 1920s he achieved recognition with his architectural paintings in which light is used dramatically to characterize his subjects. Hopper was associated with the Ash Can artists early in his career he studied with Robert Henri at the New York School of Art from 1900 to 1906 and greatly admired John Sloan's etchings of New York City. A quintessential American realist, Hopper painted a repertoire of subjects ranging from the lighthouses and Victorian manses of the New England coast to the movie houses, offices, cafeterias, and highways of New York City. ![]()
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