HOPPER
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann:
Illuminating An American Landscape
Exhibition at the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA, July 22nd to October 16th, 2023;
Publication, Rizzoli Electa, 2023.
AMERICAN MASTERS ​
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PBS
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HOPPER: An American Love Story
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January 2, 2024​
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SEBASTIAN SMEE
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THE WASHINGTON POST
“WHEN EDWARD HOPPER FELL IN LOVE WITH JO NIVISON, SHE TURNED HIS LIFE AROUND”
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August 3, 2023
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LINK: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2023/08/03/edward-hopper-show-cape-ann/
MURRAY WHYTE
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
"FOR EDWARD HOPPER, GLOUCESTER WAS A LAST AND A FRESH START"
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July 20, 2023
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LINK:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/20/arts/edward-hopper-gloucester-was-last-chance-fresh-start/
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JARED BOWEN
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PBS NEWSHOUR
"HOW EDWARD HOPPER DISCOVERED HIMSELF IN MASSACHUSETTS"
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August 22, 2023
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LINK:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/20/arts/edward-hopper-gloucester-was-last-chance-fresh-start/
JARED BOWEN
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BOSTON PUBLIC RADIO
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Live from the Boston Public Library August 4, 2023
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Boston Public Radio airs from 11-2PM Monday through Friday, and we are live from the Boston Public Radio nearly every Tuesday and Friday.
LINKS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEmUd1dTL8s&list=PLMQKK3_a14M1mmIeR9IB7jB6AEy_zZz42&index=2
ANDREA SHEA
WBUR
How Cape Ann, a Lost Cat and a Meet-cute Catalyzed Artist Edward Hopper's Career.
July 21, 2023
Curator Elliot Bostwick Davis unfolded the tale as dozens of canvases, drawings and prints were being installed in the museum's gallery. In the early 1900s, New York artists flocked to Gloucester's coast hoping to capture its picturesque geography, seaswept structures and coveted clarity of light.
LINK:
https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/07/21/edward-hopper-cape-ann-museum
ANTHONY EVERETT
CHRONICLE (CHANNEL 5)
100 years ago, artist Edward Hopper found inspiration on the shores of Gloucester
June 12, 2023
The idyllic North Shore served as Hopper's muse for his work "Mansard Roof."
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KRISTIN NORD
ANTIQUES AND THE ARTS WEEKLY
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating An American Landscape
July 25, 2023
GLOUCESTER, MASS. — It was on a rainy day in October that Elliot Bostwick Davis, PhD, and her longtime friend and colleague, Cape Ann Museum’s director, Oliver Barker, retraced the routes Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967) had painted during his summers on Cape Ann. The two had begun to think about how they might celebrate the 100th anniversary of Hopper’s formative summer there. Many of the homes that Hopper immortalized are still found on Middle, Washington and Prospect streets, and the city itself was about to mark its Quadricentennial.
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LINK:
https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/edward-hopper-cape-ann-illuminating-an-american-landscape/
LOUIS SHADWICK
THE ART NEWSPAPER
"Edward Hopper’s New England Epiphany Explored in Cape Ann Museum Show"
June 29, 2023
This exhibition in Gloucester, Massachusetts, examines how his wife Jo and the five summers spent in the town were pivotal in jumpstarting his career
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THE CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
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On Heidegger’s legacy, Donizetti, The Saviour, Hopper by the sea, the tube & more from the world of culture.
July 18, 2023
This week: Heidegger’s legacy, Donizetti, The Saviour, Hopper by the sea, the tube & more from the world of culture.
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https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/the-critics-notebook-13453
CAPE ANN MUSEUM,
PRESS RELEASE
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Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape
July 22, 2023 – October 16, 2023
July through October is your chance to see the American artist Edward Hopper’s early works painted on number of visits to Cape Ann at the start of his fame. Though Hopper (1882-1967) had painted for years in relative obscurity, selling only one painting before the age of 40, it was on Cape Ann, with the encouragement of his eventual wife, Josephine “Jo” Nivison, that he began the iconic watercolor landscapes and houses that launched his success.
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Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape is on view at CAM this summer. Opening on July 22, Hopper’s birthday, exactly 100 years after his pivotal trip to Gloucester (then celebrating its 300th anniversary), this once-in-a-generation exhibition offers a fresh look at one of America’s best-known artists at the crucial moment that profoundly shaped his art and his life. It shows the largely ignored but significant origin story of Hopper’s years in and around Gloucester, Massachusetts—a period and place that imbued Hopper’s paintings with a clarity and purpose that had eluded his earlier work. The success of Hopper’s Gloucester watercolors transformed his work in all media and set the stage for his monumental career.
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This major exhibition of over 60 works includes an unprecedented loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art, the major repository of Hopper’s work, and is compiled by nationally recognized curator and former museum director, Dr. Elliot Bostwick Davis. The exhibit explores the concept of place as a creative catalyst and charts the dramatic social, political, and economic transformations accompanying Hopper’s visits to Cape Ann. His paintings include local fishing captains’ houses along with the then brand-new electrical and telephone wires, and fishing vessels in Gloucester Harbor. The exhibition features Hopper’s work in all media including his early and ongoing fascination with boats, as well as his etchings, drawings, watercolors, and oils. The bonus in the show is the collection of Josephine N. Hopper’s paintings as well. While best known as his muse and model, she was a well-regarded painter in her own right, eventually subordinating her own career to his. This show hopes to help restore Jo N. Hopper to her rightful place as an artist.
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