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New Edward Hopper Exhibit

at the Whitney Museum

BRONX, NY – The Whitney Museum has unveiled an exhibition
dedicated to the renowned 20th century painter Edward Hopper. The
new exhibition showcases the artist’s work depicting life in New York
City during the early to middle 1900s. The display, titled Edward
Hopper’s New York, features over 200 paintings, short films, and
drawings reflecting his life and imagination.
The city of New York was Hopper’s home for nearly six decades
(1908–67), a period that spans his entire mature career. Hopper’s New
York was not an exacting portrait of the twentieth-century metropolis.
During his lifetime, the city underwent tremendous development—
skyscrapers reached record-breaking heights, construction sites roared
across the five boroughs, and an increasingly diverse population
boomed—yet his depictions of New York remained human-scale
and largely unpopulated. Eschewing the city’s iconic skyline and
picturesque landmarks, such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire
State Building, Hopper instead turned his attention to its unsung
utilitarian structures and out-of-the-way corners, drawn to the awkward
collisions of new and old, civic and residential, public and private that
captured the paradoxes of the changing city. Edward Hopper’s New York
charts the artist’s enduring fascination with the city, revealing a vision
of New York that is as much a manifestation of Hopper himself as it is
a record of the city around him.
“In this exhibition, we’re really showing his visions of New York,
but in a way that was always distinct from his contemporaries,” said
museum curator Kim Conaty.
The exhibition, which is scheduled to run until March 2023,
includes some work that has never been on public display, allowing
visitors to see Hopper as they’ve never seen him before.
As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the U.S., the Whitney
Museum of American Art presents a full range of 20th century and
contemporary American art. www.whitney.org

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