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Edward Hopper
[American Scene Painter, 1882-1967]
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Edward Hopper was the quintessential realist painter of twentieth-century America. His images have become part of the very grain and texture of American experience, and even today, thirty years after his death, it is all but impossible to see America without some refraction through them.
| | - Robert Hughes, American Visions |
Edward Hopper Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
Mini-site for the 2008 exhibition Edward Hopper
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Pennsylvania Coal
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Edward Hopper at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
6 works online when last checked
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
American Landscape, 1920
(In the "Etching" section)
Edward Hopper at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
5 works by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "Edward Hopper"
Edward Hopper at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's database
Edward Hopper at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Exhibition: An Edward Hopper Scrapbook
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
3 works online
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Information about a 2006 exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Rooms by the Sea
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Sunlight in Cafeteria
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Western Motel
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Home by the Railroad, charcoal, ca.1925-28
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
House by a Road, ca.1942
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
The Railroad, etching, 1922
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
House at Riverdale, watercolor, 1928
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Shacks At Lanesville
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
5 paintings online
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
(You may need to click "I accept these terms")
Sun on Prospect Street (Gloucester, Massachusetts)
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
House with a Big Pine, 1935
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Morning Sun, 1952
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Ground Swell
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
2 works online
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
High Noon
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
High Noon, 1949
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Summertime
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
House in Provincetown
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
House and Boats, ca.1923
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
4 works online
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Portuguese Church in Gloucester, 1923
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Monhegan Landscape
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Manhattan Bridge Loop, 1928
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Night in the Park
Night Shadows
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan
The New York Restaurant, ca.1922
Edward Hopper at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Self-portrait, drawing, 1903
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Barber Shop, 1931
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Night in the Park, 1921
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
Night Shadows, 1921
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
3 works by Edward Hopper online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
San Diego Museum of Art, California
Requires Flash: Click on "H", then select artist name
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
4 works online
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
3 works online
The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
The Sheridan Theatre
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
Two on the Aisle (Click the "Modern" category)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
House at Dusk, 1935
Virtual Museum of Canada
Ryder's House, 1933
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Captain Strout's House, Portland Head
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
4 paintings online
Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Morning in a City, 1944
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Edward Hopper 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Columbia, 1899
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
"Edward Hopper: Hours of Darkness" (2007)
Artnet Magazine
Cape Cod Morning
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Ray Carney: Essays on American Painting
Resource Library Magazine
House at Eastham, 1932
Resource Library Magazine
Edward Hopper: The Watercolors
Resource Library Magazine
Cape Cod Morning, 1950
Resource Library Magazine
Along the Pier, 1907-09
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1959 interview from the Oral History project
Syracuse University Magazine
The Railroad, etching, 1922
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"The irreducible business of being", 2004 article by Adrian Searle
The New Yorker
"Edward Hopper retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston", 2007 review by Peter Schjeldahl
Time Magazine
"The Realist at the Frontiers", 1980 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Under the Crack of Reality", 1995 article by Robert Hughes
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