Before Edward Hopper, American landscape art sought dramatic topography and an idyllic, idealized nature, genteelly ignoring ordinary people and their prosaic endeavors and by-products. Hopper (1882-1967) answered that romantic tendency with a realism in which the ordinary--houses and storefronts, trestles and telephone poles--became an essential element of his work. For most of his 60-year career, Hopper divided his time between New York City and New England. He liked the straightforward light of Maine's big skies, and in his paintings the sky becomes an active element of the composition, raking farmhouse and sand dune with sunlight. By contrast, Hopper's city scenes are lit by a sun whose light is filtered by big-city particulates and big-city blues; it illuminates storefronts and tablecloths with a gentle, elegiac touch. Presented here are thirty classic Hoppers, urban and pastoral, from the world's largest repository of Hopper's work. Pomegranate’s books of postcards contain thirty top-quality reproductions bound together in a handy, artful collection. Easy to remove and produced on heavy card stock, these stunning postcards are a delight to the sender and receiver. Published with The Whitney Museum of American Art. ISBN: 0-7649-2981-X, size: 4 3/4 x 6 7/8". |
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