This fascinating book dives into Edward Hopper's (1882-1967) legendary relationship with New York City. This in-depth examination of an important component of the acclaimed American artist's life illustrates how Hopper's encounters with New York's spaces, sensations, and architecture impacted his vision and served as a backdrop for his distillations of the urban experience.
Hopper sketched the city's many windowed facades while strolling down the street and riding the elevated train. Exterior views gave way to interior lives, forming one of Hopper's defining concerns: the blending of public and private. Hopper was able to conjure the unsettling feeling of being alone in a crowd that is characteristic with modern urban life thanks to these permeable barriers.
This book offers more than 300 pictures and new insights from renowned and rising historians, drawing on the extensive resources of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the biggest collection of Hopper's work, and the newly acquired gift of the Sanborn Hopper Archive.