Edward Hopper and the American Imagination

An art historian, along with such writers as Ann Beattie, John Hollander, William Kennedy, and Grace Paley, reflects on Hopper's art and its themes, in the companion book to the summer 1995 exhibit at the Whitney Museum.

Arts & Photography

Weinberg, Adam D.

Whitney Museum of American Art

Hopper, Edward

Lyons, Deborah

Grau, Julie

History & Criticism

Whitney Museum of Art / W. W. Norton & Co.

The first major work on the exquisite watercolors of America's foremost and most popular realist painter. Edward Hopper has been celebrated for over half a century as America's most eloquent realist artist. His best known oils, such as Nighthawks, Early Sunday Morning, and House by a Railroad, are powerful psychological statements that convey a sense of angst and alienation. Yet there is another Hopper we know less well: the freer, more spontaneous spirit that emerges in his watercolors. In 1923 he spent a summer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and began painting houses, landscapes, and fishing boats. In them he captures remnants of nineteenth-century America that for him symbolized the fundamental character of the country's people and places, and prompted him to reexamine his views about the relationship between the past and the modern. Over the next two decades, Hopper painted hundreds of watercolors, in Gloucester, the coast of Maine, New Mexico, and Cape Cod. This beautiful book reproduces and examines over one hundred of Hopper's greatest watercolors in the context of his life and travels. It is an indispensable book for anyone interested in American art. 101 four-color and 40 black-and-white illustrations. 101 four-color and 40 black-and-white illustrations

Edward Hopper: The Watercolors

Mecklenburg, Virginia M.

W.W.Norton&Company

The complete oils of arguably America's best and probably America's most "American" artist. This magnificent volume reproduces all of Hopper's 366 oil paintings. They were first published in the four-volume catalogue raisonné of the artist's works. Now they are offered at a price that will make them attractive to anyone seriously interested in art. Hopper was comfortable in both oil and watercolor, although his technique with each medium varied considerably. While oils were done in the studio, often from detailed sketches with notations on colors, the watercolors were painted on location and seem far more spontaneous. In the years since Hopper's death in 1967, many of his paintings have achieved iconographic status as statements about this country. His empty cityscapes and countrysides speak of our sense of loneliness and alienation, while his fascination with the light on Cape Cod and the buildings in Gloucester result in the evocation of feelings that can only be described as uniquely American. Published in association with the Whitney Museum of Art. 350 color plates

The Paintings of Edward Hopper

A unique book of facsimile pages culled from Hopper's personal ledger books. Edward Hopper, with the help of his wife, Jo, kept scrupulously detailed notes of all his artwork and business transactions in five accountants' ledger books. Here, in a selection of facsimile pages, we see the artist as businessman, recording everything from exhibitions and reviews to sales, commissions, and resales of his varied works. Hopper sketched most of his paintings and prints in these pages, in either pen and ink or pencil. Occasionally he added a printed reproduction as they became available. In addition to all business transactions associated with the work, Jo Hopper wrote descriptions of the colors and materials used, the subject matter, as well as personal anecdotes. In this intriguing volume, we are given a rare glimpse of this often-unseen aspect of an artist's life. We can see clearly the Hoppers' necessity and penchant for methodical record keeping and how they were able to achieve financial security through the artist's work.

Edward Hopper: A Journal of His Work

O'Doherty, Brian

Individual Artists

Edward Hopper holds an important place in twentieth-century American art. In his scenes of urban and rural life — canvases that reveal his rare, highly focused technical accomplishment and his deep psychological penetration — he created indelible images that often convey the loneliness of persons within their environment. Highly individual, instantly recognizable, his works are among the most esteemed in collections of American art. The Whitney Museum of American Art is the biggest repository of works by Edward Hopper. In its collection are a large number of Hopper drawings, powerful works that teach us not only about Hopper’s technique and vision but also about the art of drawing itself. This book presents 44 major Hopper drawings, executed in crayon, charcoal, pencil, and other primarily monochromatic media, most of them reproduced directly from originals in the museum's collection. Some of these compelling works are studies for paintings. Many reveal familiar Hopper territory: Manhattan streets, a lighthouse on the Atlantic seacoast, the rural Northeast, and more. This inexpensive edition offers a wonderful opportunity for artists and art lovers to study the unique range and evocative power of Hopper’s draftsmanship. Those mastering and refining their drawing skills will discover in these pages a rich source of inspiration and instruction.

Hopper Drawings (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

Dover Publications

Excellent collection by one of 20th-century America's leading painters: Western Motel, Hotel Room, Office at Night, Seawatchers, Automat, Approaching a City, 10 others.

Hopper: 16 Art Stickers (Dover Art Stickers)

The Fire On The Hearth In Sleepy Hollow: A Christmas Poem Of The Olden Time (1864)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Kessinger Publishing

The Fire on the Hearth in Sleepy Hollows: A Christmas Poem of the Olden Time, pp. 1-103

Trieste Publishing

Examines the life and work of the American realist painter, describing and giving examples of his art.

Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist (Artist Biographies)

Children's Books

Spangenburg, Ray

Moser, Kit

Moser, Diane

Biographies

Enslow Pub Inc

Edward Hopper Watercolors Address Book

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Running Pr Book Pub

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