January 15th 2010

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"Automat"
By Edward Hopper

"No artist has painted a more revealing portrait of twentieth-century America. But he was not merely an objective realist. His art was charged with strong personal emotion, with a deep attachment to our familiar everyday world, in all its ugliness, banality, and beauty."

By Lloyd Goodrich

Here is a snippet little autobiography of Edward Hopper

Biography

He was born in the small Hudson River town of Nyack, New York State, on 22 July 1882. His family was solidly middle-class. By 1899 he had already decided to become an artist, but his parents convinced him to begin by studying commercial illustration because this seemed to offer a more secure future. He first attended the New York School of Illustrating, then in 1900 transferred to the New York School of Art.

Then finally 1913 at the Armory Show Edward Hopper sold his first portrait. 19324 Hopper married Jo Nivison his neighbor and friend. She too was an artist. Then in 1967 Edward Hopper passed away.

Sources: ttp://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hopper.html,http://www.leninimports.com/edward_hopper.html,

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/hopper_ext.html