at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Hopper Drawing at the Whitney Museum, NYTimes

 I went to this exhibit today and it was so fascinating I stayed until the museum closed!

Hopper Drawing

"Hopper Drawing is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the drawings and creative process of Edward Hopper (1882–1967). More than anything else, Hopper’s drawings reveal the continually evolving relationship between observation and invention in the artist’s work, and his abiding interest in the spaces and motifs—the street, the movie theatre, the office, the bedroom, the road—that he would return to throughout his career as an artist. This exhibition showcases the Whitney’s unparalleled collection of Hopper’s work, which includes over 2,500 drawings bequeathed to the museum by his widow Josephine Hopper, many of which have never before been exhibited or researched. The exhibition will survey Hopper’s significant and underappreciated achievements as a draftsman, and will pair many of his greatest oil paintings, including Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York Movie (1939), Office at Night (1940) and Nighthawks (1942), with their preparatory drawings and related works. This exhibition also features groundbreaking archival research into the buildings, spaces and urban environments that inspired his work."

         

Edward Hopper (1882–1967), Study for Nighthawks, 1941 or 1942.




Nighthawks




Early Sunday Morning
(the inspiration for this painting was Seventh Avenue, between 15th Street and 16th Street!)




Rooms for Tourists




Gas




New York Movie




Soir Bleu