{"id":20928,"date":"2022-11-22T12:32:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T12:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=20928"},"modified":"2022-11-22T14:38:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:38:17","slug":"must-see-edward-hoppers-new-york-at-the-whitney-museum-of-american-art-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/must-see-edward-hoppers-new-york-at-the-whitney-museum-of-american-art-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Must see: Edward Hopper’s New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This was easily one of the best exhibitions I’ve seen in a long time, showcasing the work of this great American artist.<\/p>\n

Best of all, you can get to see it for next to\u00a0 nothing too, with the Museum’s Pay What You Wish scheme taking place every Friday, between 7\u201310 pm. Advance Tickets for these hours are required – you can bag them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For\u00a0Edward Hopper<\/a>\u00a0, New York was a city that existed in the mind as well as on the map, a place that took shape through lived experience, memory, and the collective imagination.\u00a0It was, he reflected late in life, \u201cthe American city that I know best and like most.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The city of New York was Hopper’s home for nearly six decades (1908\u201367), a period that spans his entire mature career.<\/p>\n

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Hopper’s New York was not an exacting portrait of the twentieth-century metropolis.<\/p>\n

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During his lifetime, the city underwent tremendous development\u2014skyscrapers reached record-breaking heights, construction sites roared across the five boroughs, and an increasingly diverse population boomed\u2014yet his depictions of New York remained human-scale and largely unpopulated.<\/p>\n

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Eschewing the city’s iconic skyline and picturesque landmarks, such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building,<\/p>\n

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Hopper instead turned his attention to its unsung utilitarian structures and out-of-the-way corners, drawn to the awkward collisions of new and old, civic and residential, public and private that captured the paradoxes of the changing city.<\/p>\n

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Edward Hopper’s New York<\/em>\u00a0charts the artist’s enduring fascination with the city, revealing a vision of New York that is as much a manifestation of Hopper himself as it is a record of the city around him.<\/p>\n

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Edward Hopper’s New York<\/em>\u00a0takes a comprehensive look at Hopper’s life and work, from his early impressions of New York in sketches, prints, and illustrations, to his late paintings, in which the city served as a backdrop for his evocative distillations of urban experience.<\/p>\n

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Drawing from the Whitney’s extensive holdings and amplified by key loans, the exhibition brings together many of Hopper’s iconic city pictures as well as several lesser-known yet critically important examples.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It was wonderful seeing his work close up and personal!<\/p>\n

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I loved some of the sketches too.<\/p>\n

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Edward Hopper’s New York
\nRuns until March 5th 2023
\nWhitney Museum of American Art
\n99 Gansevoort Street
\nNew York, NY 10014<\/p>\n

More about the artist<\/h4>\n