Edward Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker. He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for his skill in capturing American life and landscapes through his art.
Hopper in 1937
Birthplace and childhood home of Edward Hopper in Nyack, New York
Vase (1893), example of Edward Hopper's earliest signed and dated artwork with attention to light and shadow.
Hopper's prizewinning poster, Smash the Hun (1919), reproduced on the front cover of the Morse Dry Dock Dial
American Realism was a style in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century. Whether a cultural portrayal or a scenic view of downtown New York City, American realist works attempted to define what was real.
George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo (1924), Whitney Museum of American Art
George Bellows, New York (1911)
Ashcan School artists and friends at John French Sloan's Philadelphia Studio, 1898
The Ten American Painters in 1908. The 10 were Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, William Merritt Chase, Robert Reid, Willard Metcalf, Frank Weston Benson, Edmund Charles Tarbell, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Joseph DeCamp, and Edward Simmons.
