photo credit: Hari Seldon
Nacido en Nuack, Nueva York, comienza a estudiar arte en la escuela local hasta acceder a una formación en arte en Nueva York en 1899.
Pocos artistas han realizado un retrato de América tan revelador, para lo cual se sirve de una representación imtemporal de lugares comunes, pero que permanecen grabados en la memoria colectiva de arquetipos.
En Amazon podemos encontrar, de 2ª mano, el libro sobre sus acuarelas «Edward Hopper Watercolors».
Born in Nyack, New York, along the Hudson River, Hopper began to study art in the local schools before seeking instruction in commercial art in New York City in l899.Few artists have painted so honest and revealing a portrait of America as did Edward Hopper. His timeless images of the wayside night cafe, the empty movie theatre, and the Victorian house by the railroad track all live in memory as the ultimate rendering of those subjects. «My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature».
