Hopper and Big Apple...

On view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through March 5, 2023, "Edward Hopper's New York" is the first exhibition of its kind to focus on the artist's rich and sustained relationship with the city that served as its subject , setting and inspiration to so many of his most famous and controversial images.

Edward Hopper, Room in New York, 1932. Oil on canvas, 29 × 36 in. (73.7 × 91.4 cm). Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska—Lincoln; Anna R. and Frank M. Hall Charitable Trust. © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

New York City was Edward Hopper's home for nearly six decades (1908-1967), a period that spanned his entire career and coincided with a historic period of 'Big Apple' urban development.

Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930. Oil on canvas, 35 3/16 × 60 1/4 in. (89.4 × 153 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.426 © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Drawing inspiration from the vast collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art supplemented by major loans, the exhibition will bring together many of Edward Hopper's iconic city images such as Automat (1927), Early Sunday Morning (1930), Room in New York ( 1932), New York Movie (1939) and Morning Sun (1952), as well as several lesser-known but crucially important examples, including the artist's watercolors of downtown New York and his painting "November, Washington Square" (1932/1958).

Edward Hopper, New York Movie, 1939. Oil on canvas, 32 1/4 × 40 1/8 in. (81.9 × 101.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art; given anonymously. © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image courtesy Art Resource

The presentation is greatly enriched by a variety of documents from the Sanborn Hopper Archives recently acquired by the Museum - prints, correspondence, photographs and diaries which together provide new insights into the life of Edward Hopper.

Edward Hopper, Blackwell's Island, 1928. Oil on canvas, 34 1/2 × 59 1/2 in. (87.6 × 151.1 cm). Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR. © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image courtesy Art Resource, NY. Photography by Edward C. Robison III

Edward Hopper, Self-Portrait, 1925–30. Oil on canvas, 25 3/8 × 20 3/8 in. (64.5 × 51.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest 70.1165. © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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