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Night in the Park
192112 3/8 x 16 1/4 in. (31.5 x 41.3 cm)
Edward Hopper
United States (Nyack, NY, 1882 - 1967, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Etching
Credit Line:
Granger A. Hollister Fund
Accession Number:
1931.26
Location: Not currently on view
In 1921, when this print was created, Edward Hopper was a relatively unknown artist who had sold a few paintings but had not begun to receive the acclaim that would be his within a few years. By 1931, when it was exhibited at MAG and acquired with funds donated by a relative of the Watson family, Hopper had become HOPPER; the Museum of Modern Art had purchased one of his paintings the year before. While MAG does not own any of his canvases, we are fortunate to own this print and one other from Hopper’s decade of printmaking, 1915–1924.
The cinematic quality of Hopper’s paintings is evident even in his etchings. A shadowy figure placed at the far end of a line of benches could easily be a character from a Hollywood “film noir.”
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
The cinematic quality of Hopper’s paintings is evident even in his etchings. A shadowy figure placed at the far end of a line of benches could easily be a character from a Hollywood “film noir.”
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
Provenance
E. Weyhe; purchased by the Gallery out of the exhibition "The American Landscape in Prints," Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, November 12 - December 6, 1931.
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- The American Landscape in Prints 11/12/1931 - 12/6/1931
- Prints from the Permanent Collection 1/9/1982 - 2/28/1982
- Survey of American Printmaking Memorial Art Gallery 5/2/1987 - 10/18/1987
- From Hassam to Hopper: Prints of New York City Memorial Art Gallery 2/3/1995 - 5/7/1995
- All Around the Town: Artists' New York Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester 8/1/2003 - 11/9/2003
- It Came from the Vault: Rarely Seen Works from MAG's Collection 3/17/2013 - 6/9/2013
- In Search of Shadows Memorial Art Gallery 5/8/2015 - 8/16/2015
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Author: Herdle, Gertrude. Article Title: Recent accessions of prints. Memorial Art Gallery. The Bulletin. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery Volume Number: 4, Issue Number: 2. Issue Date: December 1931. Page Number: 9-10
- Gail Levin. Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 1980.
- Gail Levin. Edward Hopper: The Complete Prints. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co.
- Article Scope: Entry. Sandra Haller Olsen. A Survey of American Printmaking from the Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1987.
- Walter Wells. Silent theater: the art of Edward Hopper. London, England: Phaidon Press, 2007.
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It Came from the Vault exhibition catalogue
Entry for this artwork in the It Came from the Vault exhibition catalogue. The exhibition ran from March 17-June 9, 2013