Biography

Hopper was born into a middle class family in the small town of Nyack, New York in 1882. Although he knew at the age of seventeen that he wanted to pursue a career as an artist, his father encouraged him to attend the Correspondence School of Illustrating in New York, where he was trained as a commercial illustrator. After two years, he transferred to the New York School of Art in 1900 where he studied with William Merrit Chase, Robert Henri, and Kenneth Hayes Miller for the next several years. Like many young American artists, Hopper enjoyed three separate sojourns to Europe, and spent extended time in Paris, between the years 1910-13. Upon his return to New York, Hopper exhibited many of his paintings in exhibitions, including the influential Armory Show of 1913, but was discouraged by the relatively few paintings that he was able to sell. While he continued to support himself as a commercial illustrator, in 1915 he began experimenting with prints, which he sold easily to collectors at modest prices. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2004)


From Getty ULAN Biography:
Hopper was one of the premier Realist painters of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1900, Hopper studied portrait and still-life painting with William Merritt Chase, but he preferred to take classes with Kenneth Hayes Miller and Robert Henri. In 1906, Hopper worked as a part-time illustrator, but by autumn of that year he went to Paris to study the work of European artists. His painting from this period and soon after reflects the influence of "plein air" painting and Impressionism. Hopper continued to work as an illustrator, garnering more critical and commercial success with it than painting, although he loathed this work. By 1925, Hopper began to develop his signature, where the focus is on only one or two solitary figures often consumed by vast outdoors spaces or cramped city streets. His landscapes also evoke a similar haunting loneliness. One of Hopper's most well known works is a poignant portrayal of urban alienation, "The Night Hawks" (1942). With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism in the 1940s, Hopper's work was seen as illustrative and obsolete. Pop Art and Photorealism resurrected his reputation. American artist.

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