Edward Hopper (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gail Levin
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1882-1967
- Setting: Paris, New York City, and Truro, Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Edward Hopper, Josephine Hopper, Charles Burchfield, Guy du Bois, Robert Henri, Frank Rehn, Raphael Soyer
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Wives, Abused persons, Art or artists, Marriage, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Creative process, Painting or painters, Drawing
- Locales: New York, NY, Paris, France, Massachusetts
Gail Levin’s biography of Edward Hopper is the culmination of twenty years of scholarship on this great American artist. Her previous books have dealt with various aspects of his work, including a complete catalog. For this biography, she appears to have interviewed every important friend or associate of Hopper who is still alive. She has had complete access to his wife’s important diaries. She has also investigated thoroughly the literary, philosophical, and artistic influences on his work. The result is a formidable labor of learning that is not likely to be superseded.
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