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Edward Hopper was an American Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1882. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Whitney Museum of American Art have featured Edward Hopper's work in the past.Edward Hopper's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 10 USD to 91,875,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 91,875,000 USD for Chop Suey, sold at Christie's New York in 2018. Edward Hopper has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, Artland Magazine and Artist Profile. The most recent article is Preview: Clare Rojas Readies "Clare's Balls" written for JUXTAPOZ in April 2024. The artist died in 1967.
The Gibbes Museum of Art announced its acquisition of Edward Hopper’s The Battery, Charleston, S.C., which is now on view in the museum’s permanent collection galleries.
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..Known for his mysterious paintings of spare domestic interiors focusing on specific qualities of light and lone figures, his work has been often compared to Hopper's, both in terms of subject matter and...
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..Hopper's use of shadows is a signature motif of his work and an integral part of its power to enthrall viewers, emphasizing the sense of alienation, anonymity, and isolation of the human condition...
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..Regardless of the art fashions of his day, Hopper developed a metarealism transforming the subjective perception of reality into something universal, reflecting the isolation of modern urban man, and exploring...
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..Though conformity to the aesthetic demands of art editors and advertising agencies was required, Hopper’s strong, dynamic illustrations for trade publications are memorable, and seemed to have engaged...
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