- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: WW Norton (Sep 16 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393048497
- ISBN-13: 978-0393048490
- Product Dimensions: 31.3 x 23.8 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #34 in Books > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( G-I ) > Hopper, Edward
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Book Description
Edward Hopper has been celebrated for over half a century as America's most eloquent realist artist. His best known oils, such as Nighthawks, Early Sunday Morning and House by a Railroad, are powerful psychological statements that convey a sense of angst and alienation. Yet the freer, more spontaneous spirit that emerges in Hopper's watercolours is less well-known. In 1923 he spent a summer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and began painting houses, landscapes and fishing boats. In them he captures remnants of nineteenth-century America that for him symbolised the fundamental character of the country's people and places, and prompted him to re-examine his views about the relationship between the past and the modern. Over the next two decades, Hopper painted hundreds of watercolours in Gloucester, New Mexico, Cape Cod and along the coast of Maine. This beautiful book, the first major work on Hopper's exquisite watercolours, reproduces and examines over one hundred of Hopper's greatest watercolours in the context of his life and travels.
About the Author
Virginia Mecklenburg is a curator at the National Museum of American Art, where there will be an exhibition of the watercolours. Among her many publications is Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (Norton), which she co-authored.
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An Excellent Addition to Anyone's Collection!,
By Nicholas Stefano (Upstate New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Edward Hopper The Watercolors (Hardcover)
When I read a book on a specific artist, I approach it from three different angles. I am an artist first and foremost, a graphic designer by profession, and employed by a library. This book ranks five stars in all three categories. It's usually pretty easy to find an art book with really good color reproductions or with really good text, but to find one such as this with both is a true find. The author's insightful and intelligent writing combined with the wonderful color reproductions really puts you right in Edward Hoppers world. It's also what makes this book an excellent addition to anyones collection!
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An Excellent Addition to Anyone's Collection!,
By Nicholas Stefano - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Edward Hopper The Watercolors (Hardcover)
When I read a book on a specific artist, I approach it from three different angles. I am an artist first and foremost, a graphic designer by profession, and employed by a library. This book ranks five stars in all three categories. It's usually pretty easy to find an art book with really good color reproductions or with really good text, but to find one such as this with both is a true find. The author's insightful and intelligent writing combined with the wonderful color reproductions really puts you right in Edward Hoppers world. It's also what makes this book an excellent addition to anyones collection!
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It's Hopper doing watercolor!,
By Tree Hugger "Donna" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Edward Hopper The Watercolors (Hardcover)
If you like Hopper and want to see a lot of his paintings then this is the book to get. It is uniquely watercolor. Many color plates of famous and not so famous paintings.
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