Artist Profile: Edward Hopper

Artist Profile: Edward Hopper

            Edward Hopper was born July 22, 1882, in Nyack NY. His father’s name was Garret Hopper, and his mother’s name was Elizabeth Griffiths Smith. Together they owned a dry goods store. He dad one sister who was two years older than he was, Marion Hopper. They lived in the northeast part of the United States.

            After High School Edward attended college and art school. He went to Correspondence School of Illustrating, in New York, then to The New York School of Art, then an Asheen School. While at college he met his wife Josephine Verstille Nivison, Jo for short.

            Edward had gone through several things growing up, such as the WWI and WWII. His life started changing for the better through the Progressive Movement. New inventions and ideas started came around to improve the lives of Americans.

            Edwards’s most famous paintings are Nighthawks, Automat, and Chop Suey. Nighthawks is a New York City diner late at night. The diner has one window looking to the other side of the diner with another window that goes across the whole side of the diner wall, so it’s like looking through to glass walls. There are people sitting inside the diner. House by the Railroad is pretty much what it sounds like. It’s a creepy mansion like house that’s all white by railroad tracks.