Image from Coce

Edward Hopper : the watercolors / by Virginia M. Mecklenburg ; with contributions by Margaret Lynne Ausfeld.

By:

Mecklenburg, Virginia M. (Virginia McCord), 1946- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : New York ; London : National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution ; W.W. Norton, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: ix, 181 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portrait ; 31 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0937311588
9780937311585
0393048497
9780393048490
093731157X
9780937311578

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

759.13

LOC classification:

ND1839.H63 A4 1999

Contents:

Foreword / Elizabeth Broun and Mark Johnson -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Parisian Evenings and New York Corners -- 3. Old Houses and Immigrant Fishermen -- 4. Coast Guard Cottages and Civil War Cannon -- 5. Discovering Cape Cod -- 6. A Home of Their Own and Mexico Too.

Review: "During the summer of 1923, Edward Hopper fled the summer heat of New York City with thousands of others. His destination was the resort town of Gloucester. It was there - perhaps inspired by the particular light and quality of the place - that he took up the medium of watercolor. It was also there that he met his future wife, fellow painter, and constant companion, Jo Nivison. Together that summer Hopper and Jo turned their backs on Gloucester Harbor and the forest of easels set up to depict that most popular of scenes. Instead they explored the back streets and outlying areas, discovering and painting the homes of sea captains and immigrant laborers, Coast Guard stations, and lighthouses."--BOOK JACKET.Summary: "Virginia Mecklenburg, senior curator at the National Museum of American Art, and Margaret Lynne Ausfeld curator at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, offer us in this volume the unique treatment of this aspect of Hopper's work as a coherent whole. In the watercolors we see a different facet of Hopper than the one we are accustomed to from his oils, for which be is better known today."--BOOK JACKET.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	759.13 HOP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A196209B

Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Oct. 22, 1999-Jan. 3, 2000, and at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 30 - Mar. 26, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"During the summer of 1923, Edward Hopper fled the summer heat of New York City with thousands of others. His destination was the resort town of Gloucester. It was there - perhaps inspired by the particular light and quality of the place - that he took up the medium of watercolor. It was also there that he met his future wife, fellow painter, and constant companion, Jo Nivison. Together that summer Hopper and Jo turned their backs on Gloucester Harbor and the forest of easels set up to depict that most popular of scenes. Instead they explored the back streets and outlying areas, discovering and painting the homes of sea captains and immigrant laborers, Coast Guard stations, and lighthouses."--BOOK JACKET.

"Virginia Mecklenburg, senior curator at the National Museum of American Art, and Margaret Lynne Ausfeld curator at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, offer us in this volume the unique treatment of this aspect of Hopper's work as a coherent whole. In the watercolors we see a different facet of Hopper than the one we are accustomed to from his oils, for which be is better known today."--BOOK JACKET.

Machine converted from AACR2 source record.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.