Edeward Hopper(에드워드 호퍼)

2007.9.16~2008.1.21
워싱턴 내셔널 갤러리National Gallery of Art
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Edward Hopper, American (1882–1967)
Nighthawks, 1942
Friends of American Art Collection, 1942.51
The Art Institute of Chicago
Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago

This is the first comprehensive survey of Edward Hopper's career to be seen in American museums outside New York in more than 25 years. Focusing on the period of the artist's great achievements—from about 1925 to midcentury—the exhibition will feature such iconic paintings as Automat (1927), Drug Store (1927), Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York Movie (1939), and Nighthawks (1942).

Edward Hopper's classic works captured the realities of urban and rural American life with a poignancy and beauty that have placed them among the most enduring and popular images of the 20th century. This exhibition of about 48 oil paintings, 34 watercolors, and 12 prints will reveal Hopper (1882–1967) as a creator of compelling images who produced remarkably subtle and painterly effects in both oil and watercolor. It will also examine how his images were seen in his own time.