COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- For her first season as the artistic and general director of the Glimmerglass Festival here, Francesca Zambello was determined to include a new opera among the offerings, which bodes well for the adventurousness of her vision. She fulfilled that goal by recruiting the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner and the...
Nyack, N.Y. FOR the first time in nearly three decades, the Edward Hopper House Art Center, in Hopper's childhood home here, has mounted an exhibition featuring the work of its former resident. ''Edward Hopper, Prelude: The Nyack Years'' presents 18 paintings and drawings, all but one created while Hopper lived in the house, from 1882, the year of...
To the Editor: Re ''Shadowing the Reclusive Painter of Light,'' by Francis X. Clines (Editorial Notebook, June 9): An artist's depiction of a person or a place, whether in painting, writing or film, is always an internal depiction. Those seeking an actual place to connect Edward Hopper's painting of ''Drug Store'' to the corner store on Waverly...
Edward Hopper (22. juli 1882 i New York - 15. maj 1967) var en amerikansk kunstner.
Hans mest berømte værk er Nighthawks (1942), der er blevet et amerikansk ikon, og er blandt de mest kendte malerier i USA. Billedet forestiller tre ensomme mennesker på en typisk amerikansk diner i en sen nattetime.
Hans billeder har bl.a. været udstillet på Louisiana.