Overview
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann tells the largely ignored but significant origin story of Edward Hopperās years in and around Gloucester, Massachusettsāa period and place that imbued Hopperās paintings with a clarity and purpose that had eluded his earlier work. This volume focuses on summers Hopper spent there in the 1920s, starting in 1923, when he first embraced watercolor during outdoor painting excursions on Cape Ann and discovered one of his favorite subjects: houses and vernacular architecture. The success of Hopperās Gloucester watercolors transformed his work in all media and set the stage for his monumental career.
Accompanying a major retrospective at the Cape Ann Museum, including an unprecedented loan of twenty-eight works from the Whitney Museum of American Art, this highly readable and beautifully illustrated volume reveals in great depth the lesser-known story about the influence of a young painter, Josephine Nivison, who became not only Hopperās wife but also the most trusted force underlying his artistic confidence. Here she is recast as principal producer of Hopperās distinctive style and his ābrandā visionary from the time of their courtship until his death in 1967.
This book title, Edward Hopper & Cape Ann (Illuminating an American Landscape), ISBN: 9780847899340, by Elliot Bostwick Davis, published by Rizzoli (May 2, 2023) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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