About the Exhibition
“Edward Hopper” features nearly 100 of the artist’s most celebrated paintings, watercolors, and prints. It is the first comprehensive exhibition of Hopper’s work to be held at the MFA in more than fifty years, and is a fitting tribute to an artist that critics called “the master whose poetry is realism.”
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) produced some of the most enduringly popular images in American art. His diners, movie palaces, and middle-class buildings reflect American life between the world wars; his light-filled watercolors of Gloucester, Maine, and Cape Cod evoke the austere beauty of those places. And his quiet, yet riveting, pictures of people in their apartments, offices, and hotel rooms express both a sense of urban isolation and the bittersweet comfort of being alone.
“Edward Hopper” includes paintings now considered icons of twentieth-century art, among them Nighthawks, Early Sunday Morning, and Automat.
The exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington; and The Art Institute of Chicago.
Generously supported in part by Mary L. Cornille and John F. Cogan Jr. and the MFA Associates/MFA Senior Associates Exhibition Endowment Fund.
Television media sponsor is WCVB-TV 5.
The print media sponsor is The Boston Phoenix.
“Edward Hopper” is on view in the Gund Gallery through August 19, 2007.
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Take a closer look at Hopper’s most enduring and iconic works of art, capturing both the quiet moments of urban life and the beauty of coastal New England.
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