TY - BOOK AU - Mecklenburg,Virginia M. AU - Hopper,Edward AU - Ausfeld,Margaret Lynne ED - Smithsonian Institution TI - Edward Hopper: the watercolors SN - 0937311588 AV - ND1839.H63 A4 1999 U1 - 759.13 PY - 1999///] CY - Washington, D.C., New York, London PB - National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, W.W. Norton KW - Hopper, Edward, KW - Watercolor painting, American KW - Exhibitions KW - 20th century N1 - 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; 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 N2 - "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 ER -