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      • Adrien Broom: Holding Space
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      • 2020
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        • Rodney Smith
        • Hopper Through Photography
        • John Morton: Place of Origin
        • Michael Banning: Hopper / Hammershøi
        • Alastair Noble: Message In A Bo(a)ttle
        • Holly Zausner and Mott Hupfel: Unsettled Matter
        • Angela Fraleigh: Shadows Searching For Light
      • 2018 >
        • Milton Glaser: Landscape Prints
        • Claudia Alvarez: Boy in a Room
        • Sean Scully: No Words
        • Carrie Mae Weems Beacon
      • 2017 >
        • Richard Tuschman Hopper Meditations
        • Mercedes Helnwein CHAOS THEORY:
        • Rock, Paper, Scissors
      • 2016 >
        • David LaChapelle: Gas Stations
        • Side by Side: Robert Natkin and Judith Dolnick
        • Where We Are Standing: Contemporary Women Artists from Iran
      • 2015
      • 2014 >
        • Jo Hopper - Grace De Coeur 2014
      • 2013
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        • Kari Lindstrom dance performance
      • 2011
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      • 2008
    • Sculpture in the Garden
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    • Spring Benefit 2015 - Hopper on the Hudson
    • Spring Benefit 2014 - At Home with Jo & Ed
    • Spring Benefit 2013 - Pretty Penny
    • Raise the Roof 2011
  • 50th Anniversary
  • About
    • History/Present >
      • Construction
    • Staff/Trustees >
      • Trustees - Private
    • FAQ
    • Rent The House
  • VISIT
    • A Walking Tour of Edward Hopper's Nyack
    • Things to do in the Rockland / Nyack area
    • Metro-North Getaways Program
  • Support & Membership
    • DONATE
    • Membership
    • Sponsorship
    • Our Supporters
  • Learn
    • Sanborn-Hopper Family Archive
    • About Edward Hopper >
      • Myths & Legends
      • Hopper-related Links
      • 2011: A Year of Edward Hopper
      • Edward Hopper House and the making of an artist (video)
      • Hopper Happens (2011 & 2012)
      • Hopper's NYC Studio
    • Writing With Hopper
    • Teen Leadership - Nighthawks >
      • Nighthawks ARTifacts Project
    • Arts Education Program
    • Internship Programs
    • Docent Program
    • Artistic Curiosity Scholarships
    • Teacher/Student Resources
  • Exhibitions
    • Currently on View >
      • Object Lessons
      • Thirty Seven
      • Edward Hopper's Bedroom: Reimagined
    • Upcoming Exhibitions >
      • Terry Rosenberg
      • Adrien Broom: Holding Space
    • Past exhibitions >
      • 2020
      • 2019 >
        • Rodney Smith
        • Hopper Through Photography
        • John Morton: Place of Origin
        • Michael Banning: Hopper / Hammershøi
        • Alastair Noble: Message In A Bo(a)ttle
        • Holly Zausner and Mott Hupfel: Unsettled Matter
        • Angela Fraleigh: Shadows Searching For Light
      • 2018 >
        • Milton Glaser: Landscape Prints
        • Claudia Alvarez: Boy in a Room
        • Sean Scully: No Words
        • Carrie Mae Weems Beacon
      • 2017 >
        • Richard Tuschman Hopper Meditations
        • Mercedes Helnwein CHAOS THEORY:
        • Rock, Paper, Scissors
      • 2016 >
        • David LaChapelle: Gas Stations
        • Side by Side: Robert Natkin and Judith Dolnick
        • Where We Are Standing: Contemporary Women Artists from Iran
      • 2015
      • 2014 >
        • Jo Hopper - Grace De Coeur 2014
      • 2013
      • 2012 >
        • Kari Lindstrom dance performance
      • 2011
      • 2010
      • 2009
      • 2008
    • Sculpture in the Garden
  • Programs
    • Calendar
    • Special Programs >
      • Sail Through Art History
      • Nighthawks Magic
      • Nyack Record Shop Project
      • Hopper Scenes
      • Bridgman/Packer "Voyeur"
      • Special Programs - PAST
    • Free First Fridays
    • For Seniors
    • For Families
    • Art Talks
    • Films in the Garden
    • Jazz in the Garden 2020
  • Artist Members
    • Artist Membership Sign-Up and Payment
  • Special Events
    • Arts Education - Ellis Sotheby's 2020
    • Spring Benefit 2020
    • Arts Education - Ellis Sotheby's 2019
    • Spring Benefit 2019
    • Arts Education - Ellis Sotheby's 2018
    • Spring Benefit 2018
    • Arts Education - Ellis Sotheby's 2017
    • Spring Benefit 2017 - Art, Architecture, And A Study Center Rises
    • Arts Education - Ellis Sotheby's 2016
    • Spring Benefit 2015 - Hopper on the Hudson
    • Spring Benefit 2014 - At Home with Jo & Ed
    • Spring Benefit 2013 - Pretty Penny
    • Raise the Roof 2011
  • 50th Anniversary
EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE MUSEUM AND STUDY CENTER

2011: A YEAR OF EDWARD HOPPER


Edward Hopper House celebrated its 40th anniversary as an art center in 2011 with a series of events and exhibits related to Edward Hopper.  The highlight of our year was an unprecedented exhibition of Edward Hopper's early work.
Edward Hopper, Prelude: The Nyack Years (May 21 - July 17, 2011) was the first exhibition to concentrate on the works Hopper created during his years in Nyack, New York.  Supported by loans from the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust, the show included paintings, drawings, watercolors and memorabilia, some of which have never before been published or exhibited. This exhibition offered a unique opportunity to experience Hopper’s work in the very place that helped shape his vision and where he lived when the work was created.   Curated by Elizabeth Thompson Colleary and organized by Carole Perry.  An illustrated catalogue with an essay by Avis Berman is available for purchase here. 

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Edward Hopper and Nyack

In 1935, a quarter-century after he had moved from his boyhood home in Nyack and was well on his way to establishing himself as the preeminent American realist painter of the twentieth century, Edward Hopper famously wrote:

“In every artist’s development the germ of the later work is always found in the earlier. The nucleus around which the artist’s intellect builds his work is himself: and this changes little from birth to death.  What he was once, he always is, with slight modifications. Changing fashions in methods or subject matter alter him little or not at all.”

In the works exhibited here in the intimate setting of Hopper’s boyhood home, in rooms occupied by his family for more than a century, the “germs” of Hopper’s later art, the masterworks on which his fame rests, can clearly be found.  In his choice of subjects and in the development of his style, the art he produced during the Nyack years represents a crucial prelude to the mature works that would secure his position in the pantheon of American art.

In reappraising a sampling of Hopper’s early seminal works it is clear that during the Nyack years, when he was drawing and painting local scenes and then branching out to commute to art school in New York City and travel to Paris, his artistic foundation was in the process of being laid.

Edward Hopper, Prelude: The Nyack Years provides long overdue recognition of the role that Nyack played in the artist’s early development. The art and memorabilia on display document Hopper’s artistic growth and present new insights into his original sources of inspiration that would sustain him for years to come.   

​Elizabeth Thompson Colleary, Curator                                                                                    

40th Anniversary Advisory Board
Jane Alexander
Avis Berman
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
Karen Finley
Eric Fischl
Jeffrey Fraenkel
Richard Kendall
Mark Rosenthal 
Philip Sanborn
Carol Troyen
Anthony Vidler
Adam Weinberg
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This exhibition was made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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​Edward Hopper House is supported in part with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.