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Name: Edward Hopper
Birth Date: July 22, 1882
Death Date: May 15, 1967
Place of Birth: Nyack, New York, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter, illustrator

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Biography of Edward Hopper
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A pioneer in picturing the 20th-century American scene, Edward Hopper (1882-1967) was a realist whose portrayal of his native country was uncompromising, yet filled with deep emotional content. Edward Hopper was born on July 22, 1882, in Nyack, N.Y. At...
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Biography of Edward Hopper
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Edward Hopper was one of the quieter revolutionaries of twentieth-century American painting. He used flat, boxy lines, somber tones, and a uniquely idiosyncratic attention to detail to depict scenes that ranged from the modern urban landscapes of New...


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Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American Realist painter, best remembered for his eerily realistic depictions of solitude in contemporary American life. Unsourced In every artist's development the germ of a later work is always...


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Hopper, Edward (1882-1967) Summary
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Born in 1882 in Nyack, New York, Edward Hopper developed a style of realist painting that art critic Rolf Günter Renner suggests revealed the limits that humanity and nature impose on each other. This tension is put into sharp relief in one of...
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Edward Hopper Information
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Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American painter and printmaker. While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in...


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Artforum International
Edward Hopper.
12/01/1993: 1,062 words, approx. 4 pages
The heftiest and most ambitious artist's biography to emerge this fall is James E. B. Breslin's Mark Rothko: A Biography. This exceptionally well documented work, over 700 pages long, is written by an English professor who discovered Rothko during a chance visit to...
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Newsweek
Hopper: The Quiet Man.(Edward Hopper)
05/14/2007: 474 words, approx. 2 pages
Byline: Peter Plagens In an art world filled with big, raucous abstract paintings--not to mention video installations as jumpy and noisy as action movies--a museum exhibition of a 20th-century realist could seem stiff, dated, cramped and, well, boring. That's not the case...
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Investor's Business Daily
Realistically, Edward Hopper Had A Hand For Art
4/20/2007: 873 words, approx. 3 pages
It was the moment of which every artist dreams: his first solo show.Edward Hopper was ready.He'd sold his first painting, "Sailing," at the International Exhibition of Modern Art seven years earlier. He'd often exhibited in group shows and was considered an emerging American realist.But when...
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Butler Institute gets first Rockwell
1/29/2007: 263 words, approx. 1 pages
The Butler Institute of American Art has paid $1.6 million to acquire its first Norman Rockwell painting, "Lincoln the Railsplitter."The painting was bought Nov. 30 in a sale at Christie's Auction House in New York. The previous owner was Texas billionaire and former presidential candidate...
 


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Edward Hopper-Story painting
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A fictional story that was made based on a Painting by Edward Hopper.


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