Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time
28 Oct 2010 - 10 Apr 2011
George Bellows 1882-1925
Dempsey and Firpo, 1924
Oil on canvas
Overall: 51 × 63 1/4in. (129.5 × 160.7cm) Frame: 58 1/4 × 70 1/4 × 3 1/8 in. (148 × 178.4 × 7.9cm).
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Purchase, with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.95. Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins
Dempsey and Firpo, 1924
Oil on canvas
Overall: 51 × 63 1/4in. (129.5 × 160.7cm) Frame: 58 1/4 × 70 1/4 × 3 1/8 in. (148 × 178.4 × 7.9cm).
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Purchase, with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.95. Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins
MODERN LIFE: EDWARD HOPPER AND HIS TIME
October 28, 2010–April 10, 2011
Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time traces the development of realism in American art between 1900 and 1940, emphasizing the diverse ways that artists depicted the sweeping transformations in urban and rural life that occurred during this period. The exhibition highlights the work of Edward Hopper, whose use of the subject matter of modern life to portray universal human experiences made him America’s most iconic realist painter of the 20th century. Drawn primarily from the Whitney Museum’s extensive holdings, Modern Life places Hopper’s achievements in the context of his contemporaries—the Ashcan School painters with whom he came of age as an artist in the century’s first decades, the 1920’s Precisionist artists, whose explorations of abstract architectural geometries mirrored those of Hopper, and a younger generation of American Scene painters, who worked alongside Hopper in New York during the 1930s. Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time includes approximately 80 works in a range of media by Hopper and artists such as John Sloan, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Charles Demuth, Guy Pène du Bois, Charles Sheeler, Charles Burchfield, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Reginald Marsh, and Jacob Lawrence. The show is accompanied by a 250-page illustrated catalogue with essays by American and German scholars, produced in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title which appeared at the Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, and the Kunsthal Rotterdam in 2009-10.
Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time is organized by Barbara Haskell and Sasha Nicholas.
October 28, 2010–April 10, 2011
Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time traces the development of realism in American art between 1900 and 1940, emphasizing the diverse ways that artists depicted the sweeping transformations in urban and rural life that occurred during this period. The exhibition highlights the work of Edward Hopper, whose use of the subject matter of modern life to portray universal human experiences made him America’s most iconic realist painter of the 20th century. Drawn primarily from the Whitney Museum’s extensive holdings, Modern Life places Hopper’s achievements in the context of his contemporaries—the Ashcan School painters with whom he came of age as an artist in the century’s first decades, the 1920’s Precisionist artists, whose explorations of abstract architectural geometries mirrored those of Hopper, and a younger generation of American Scene painters, who worked alongside Hopper in New York during the 1930s. Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time includes approximately 80 works in a range of media by Hopper and artists such as John Sloan, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Charles Demuth, Guy Pène du Bois, Charles Sheeler, Charles Burchfield, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Reginald Marsh, and Jacob Lawrence. The show is accompanied by a 250-page illustrated catalogue with essays by American and German scholars, produced in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title which appeared at the Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, and the Kunsthal Rotterdam in 2009-10.
Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time is organized by Barbara Haskell and Sasha Nicholas.