Edward Hopper – on display in Rome

Edward Hopper - Morning Sun

This week in Rome, opened for the first time ever an exhibition of the work by Amerian painter Edward Hopper (1882-1967). The exhibition pays tribute to the entire career this one of the 20th century’s most popular and best known American artist. The exhibition presents more than 160 works, including famous masterpieces

The exhibition will be staged at the Fondazione Roma Museum, from now till June 13, 2010, then it moves on to the Fondation de l’Hermitage in Lausanne.

Aside from the 160 works on show in the Milan exhibition, where it was staged before, the Rome event will feature more of the artist’s great masterpieces, including the beautiful Self-Portrait of 1925-1930, as well as The Sheridan Theatre (1937), New York Interior (circa 1921), Seven A. M. (1948), and South Carolina Morning (1955) along with their preparatory drawings. These extraordinary paintings will complete the group of famous works exhibited in Milan, such as Summer Interior (1909), Pennsylvania Coal Town (1947), Morning Sun (1952), Second Story Sunlight (1960), A Woman in the Sun (1961) and the stunning Girlie Show (1941). The exhibition explores the whole of Hopper’s oeuvre, and all

Edward Hopper

the techniques used by an artist now viewed as a great master of the twentieth century.

Structured in seven sections according to chronological order and theme, the Italian exhibition covers Hopper’s entire oeuvre, from his education, to his years as a student in Paris, up to his “classic” and best-known period of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, closing with the large, intense images of his later years. The show explores all of the artist’s favorite techniques: oil, watercolor and etching, and devotes special attention to the fascinating relationship between his preparatory drawings and his paintings: a vital aspect of his work that up till now has not been greatly explored in the exhibitions dedicated to him.