CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Sean Scully: No Words

March 9 - May 27, 2018
Members opening March 8, 6:30-8:30 PM
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Sean Scully is renowned for his paintings featuring multiple layered stripes of thickly applied oil paint.  Though abstract, his imagery is derived from the natural world and serves as a metaphor that relates to things outside the painting.  The works to be shown in this exhibition are from the "Doric" series.  Scully has said that the series is a love letter to Greece: “I wanted to celebrate what Greece had given us, to humanity, and tried to make an architectural metaphor, in which I tried to include, in a sense, the history of romantic painting. For the Doric paintings I tried to show something that was based on order and classicism.”  While the series pays homage to Greece and its classical architecture, many of the works were created in Scully’s studio in Tappan, New York—not far from the Nyack of Edward Hopper’s formative years—and it is the local environment and his emotions on a given day that Scully responds to when creating the paintings. 

Born in Dublin in 1945, Scully moved to London as a child and studied art at the Central School of Art and Croydon College of Art before receiving his BA from Newcastle University in 1972. Scully moved to United States in 1975 and currently lives and works New York and Munich, Germany.

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Special thanks the sponsors of the Sean Scully: No Words exhibition: 

We are also grateful to O'D's Tavern in Nyack ​for sponsoring our 2017-2018 exhibition openings by providing the delicious refreshments! 

Annual Members Exhibition

January 21 - March 11, 12-4 pm
Opening Reception January 21, 4-6 pm

NEW LOCATION! at UNION ARTS CENTER
2 Union Avenue, Sparkill, NY 10976

Artist Members of the Edward Hopper House are featured in this annual show.

Exhibiting artists, please note pickup times/dates: Thursday, March 15 and Saturday, March 17, 12-4 PM.

ONGOING EXHIBITS

Edward Hopper's Bedroom Reimagined

The Edward Hopper House is pleased to announce the restaging of the Edward Hopper's bedroom in the historic house in which he spent the first 28 years of his life and where he visited family throughout his lifetime.  The bedroom has been transformed into a showcase designed in period style by Architectural Digest featured designer Ernest de la Torre, and architect Walter Cain.
 
The staging of Hopper’s bedroom is a fitting acknowledgement of the profound impact the space had on his artistic development. Growing up with a view of the Hudson River from his bedroom window, young Edward Hopper was drawn to its banks. He spent hours at the village docks and shipyards, sketching and watching the building and rigging of boats. The activity on the river is captured in many of Hopper’s early drawings and paintings, and boats and seascapes remained common subjects in his art throughout his life.
 
Also central to his artistic development was the so-called “Hudson River light” of Nyack. The strong rays of morning sunlight streaming through the east facing windows of his bedroom create shifting patterns of light on the floor and walls. Hopper incorporated these tangible blocks of sunlight into early paintings and many of his later masterpieces. Visitors to this showcase will be able to appreciate all the unique features of the bedroom that so inspired Edward Hopper and led him on his creative path.  Due to the historic nature of the house and other limitations, the second floor room is only accessible by the stairs.

​We are grateful to Ernest de la Torre and Walter Cain for their attention to detail and for the time and energy they put into this project, as well as for the generous loans they contributed.  Thank you also to Paul Cavalconte and artists Vincent and Tatiana Capraro for the additional loans, and to Mark Turner of Turner & Turner Painting. Special thanks to Richard Ellis of Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty for making this all possible.  

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Edward Hopper's Early Work and Memorabilia

On view in the Arthayer & Ruth Sanborn Gallery

Early drawings, paintings, and etchings together with memorabilia, including model boats made by Hopper, paintboxes, and an easel, are presented on an ongoing basis. 

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A Photographic Journey through Hopper's World
​by Charles Sternaimolo

Searching through Josephine Hopper’s meticulous notes, studying the work of fellow Hopper scholars, checking with local residents and historians, and even walking through an area in search of a “Hopper scene,” photographer Charles Sternaimolo identified and documented over 150 places painted by Edward Hopper. See a visual comparison through photography of Hopper’s painted locations.


This exhibit was generously underwritten by Donna Cox, ​Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty.

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Additional support was provided by Frames & Art by Simon