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Night Shadows
192110 5/8 x 13 3/16 in. (27 x 33.5 cm)
Edward Hopper
United States (Nyack, NY, 1882 - 1967, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Etching
Credit Line:
Gift of Sister Magdalen LaRow in honor of Robert Gianniny
Accession Number:
1989.52
Location: Not currently on view
Publisher:
The New Republic, NYPortfolio: The New Republic Portfolio
Edward Hopper’s prints, like those of Martin Lewis, have a strong relationship to cinematic film noir. The artist gives us the sense that we are unseen watchers observing clandestine activity, and we have a feeling of unease. Strongly contrasting light and dark areas and sharp diagonal lines heighten these precarious and anxious feelings.
Who are these people? Are they city dwellers or newcomers? As Jonathan Franzen wrote in a 1966 essay in the New Yorker, “There’s no better way of rejecting where you came from, no plainer declaration of an intention to reinvent yourself, than moving to New York.” Hopper’s work suggests how the city’s cloak of anonymity makes Franzen’s statement possible.
[Label text, 2003]
Who are these people? Are they city dwellers or newcomers? As Jonathan Franzen wrote in a 1966 essay in the New Yorker, “There’s no better way of rejecting where you came from, no plainer declaration of an intention to reinvent yourself, than moving to New York.” Hopper’s work suggests how the city’s cloak of anonymity makes Franzen’s statement possible.
[Label text, 2003]
Bibliography
See general reference in "Americans at Home and Abroad: Graphic Arts, 1855-1975," Madison, WI, 1976: cat. no. 42, p. 24, repr. on frontispiece
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- 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
- In Search of Shadows Memorial Art Gallery 5/8/2015 - 8/16/2015
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- 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.
- MAGazine. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
- Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006.
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Jessica Todd Smith and Kevin M. Murphy. Pressed in Time: American Prints 1905-1950. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2007.
- Walter Wells. Silent theater: the art of Edward Hopper. London, England: Phaidon Press, 2007.
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