Edward Hopper, famed for his Early Sunday Morning (Whitney Museum of American Art) and Night Hawks (Art Institute of Chicago) was an artist of his time and place: the first half of the twentieth century in New York. He worked amidst the great economic depression of the 30’s and the world wars. His rivals in art included Georgia O’Keefe, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis and Jackson Pollock. With all that competition, by 1960, Hopper, along with his realist colleague Andrew Wyeth, was still the highest priced living American artist.
A modest, quiet, yet strong personality, Hopper divided his time between Washington Square and his sun-drenched studio on Cape Cod. Despite success, he and his beloved wife Jo dined in cafeterias, or from canned soup. In his seventies, the artist hauled buckets of coal up five flights to heat his stove. Hopper worked first in the golden age of illustration, along with Norman Rockwell and Maxfield Parrish. As a fine artist, later, his closest colleague was Reginald Marsh. This talk puts Hopper in the context of the art of his era and will explore the elements of his greatness and the reasons for his enduring significance. Edward Hopper was a true American original.
About the Presenter:
Franklin Hill Perrell is a well known art historian, curator, and writer. His career at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York has spanned over twenty years, culminating in the title of Chief Curator. There, he curated over fifty major exhibitions and numerous contemporary shows, including Miro & Calder, Chagall, Picasso, School of Paris, American Realism Between the Wars, Pop & Op, and Surrealism. After the museum, in 2009, Perrell became Executive Director of the Roslyn Landmark Society, responsible for preservation of over two hundred landmarked houses, and the rescue of endangered art and architecture. In 2013, he co-founded Artful Circle with business partner Debbie Wells, which provides outsourced museum services, and a popular series of gallery lecture visits
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