Object Lessons
Curated by Carole Perry
Spring 2020
Spring 2020
The Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center is embarking on a series of exhibitions devoted to specific works of art or objects from the Sanborn Hopper Family Archive and other materials currently in the possession of Edward Hopper House. We invite four to six artists to each present one object (or a memory of an object) from their childhoods and describe, either in text, audio, or video, its significance to them and how it may have shaped their artistic vision and/or personal development. Each contemporary artist will show a mature work of art alongside, illustrating that connection.
A group of contemporary artists will display childhood objects charged with emotional associations which emphasize the influence of childhood on their personal and artistic development. It may be a toy, book, or other keepsake from the artist’s youth, or perhaps a drawings or painting that the artist made as a child. The exhibition will look at specific materials from Edward Hopper’s childhood as a point of departure to examine ways in which such objects influenced - or were harbingers - of his development. For instance, Edward Hopper drew “Little Boy Looking at the Sea” on the back of his report card from 1891. He was 9 years old that year and it was created within a year or two of that, when he started signing and dating his drawings. We can see that, at this early age, his artistic identity was beginning to take shape. There is much we know from his early childhood that led to his world view of an isolated, introspective figure that we now so closely associate his mature masterworks.
A group of contemporary artists will display childhood objects charged with emotional associations which emphasize the influence of childhood on their personal and artistic development. It may be a toy, book, or other keepsake from the artist’s youth, or perhaps a drawings or painting that the artist made as a child. The exhibition will look at specific materials from Edward Hopper’s childhood as a point of departure to examine ways in which such objects influenced - or were harbingers - of his development. For instance, Edward Hopper drew “Little Boy Looking at the Sea” on the back of his report card from 1891. He was 9 years old that year and it was created within a year or two of that, when he started signing and dating his drawings. We can see that, at this early age, his artistic identity was beginning to take shape. There is much we know from his early childhood that led to his world view of an isolated, introspective figure that we now so closely associate his mature masterworks.
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