Edward Hopper's Maine
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (678 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3791351281 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
From the Inside Flap Examining the fruitful summers Hopper spent in Maine between 1914 and 1929, this unique and lavishly illustrated volume features over 100 paintings, watercolors, and drawings, a body of work that is astonishing in its beauty, range, consistency, and importance.
This book presents Hopper's compelling images of Maine, including its signature lighthouses, towns, harbors, and coastlines, works that anticipate his mature style and ethos. Hopper's magnificent lighthouse paintings are also freshly treated, as is his mysterious Maine in Fog, a significant painting heretofore considered unfinished. Examining the fruitful summers Hopper spent in Maine between 1914 and 1929, this unique and lavishly illustrated volume features over 100 paintings, watercolors, and drawings, a body of work that is astonishing in its beauty, range, consistency, and importance. Among these lyrical and masterful creations, with their carefully calculated compositions and cinematic use of light and shadow, are the plein-air paintings that Hopper created on tiny Monhegan Island off the Maine coast. Many of the works in this stunning book, never or rarely exhibited, are brought together for the first time. This publication, with its insightful accompanying essays, represents an exciting new contribution to the appreciation of this major American artist.. This series of thirty-two oils is comparable to Monet's haystacks in its meditation on a single, everchangingsubject
Three Stars The quality of the reproductions are disappointing,. wiredweird said A gorgeous treat. This book catalogs a display at Bowdoin College's art museum, at the time of this writing. I had the pleasure of seeing that show recently, and was knocked flat. The show had only a few of Hopper's iconic oils, including a radiant lighthouse painting, since this show centered on Hopper's work in Maine. This included some watercolors, drawings, and oil studies. For me, though, the biggest treat of the show came in the first of the rooms dedicated to it. The other side of Hopper Horacio Kahn This book shows the seascape side of Edgar Hopper. Within a painterly way, sometimes with strokes and colors that remember the grim painting of Soutine, this book brings us this side of his genius, something different from his more known painting. I'm very happy with my buying.
Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. . CARTER FOSTER is Curator of Drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. DIANA TUITE is Andrew W. VINCENT KATZ is a poet, translator, and art critic. KEVIN SALATINO is Director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine. STEVE MARTIN is a well-known actor, writer, and art collector. CAROL TROYEN is a leading scholar of Edwa