Edward HOPPER at the MFA
July 12, 2007
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“Edward Hopper” features nearly 100 of the artist’s most celebrated paintings, watercolors, and prints. It is the first comprehensive exhibition of Hopper’s work to be held at the MFA in more than fifty years, and is a fitting tribute to an artist that critics called “the master whose poetry is realism.”
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) produced some of the most enduringly popular images in American art. His diners, movie palaces, and middle-class buildings reflect American life between the world wars; his light-filled watercolors of Gloucester, Maine, and Cape Cod evoke the austere beauty of those places. And his quiet, yet riveting, pictures of people in their apartments, offices, and hotel rooms express both a sense of urban isolation and the bittersweet comfort of being alone.
“Edward Hopper” includes paintings now considered icons of twentieth-century art, among them Nighthawks, Early Sunday Morning, and Automat.
The exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington; and The Art Institute of Chicago.
