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  • SEARCH
  • VISIT
    • A Walking Tour of Edward Hopper's Nyack
    • Metro-North Getaways Program
  • About
    • History/Present >
      • Things to do in the Rockland / Nyack area
      • Rent The House
      • Construction
    • Staff/Trustees
    • Trustees - Private
    • FAQ
  • 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
    • Teen Leadership - Nighthawks >
      • Nighthawks ARTifacts Project
    • Arts Education Program
    • Internship Programs
    • Docent Program
    • Artistic Curiosity Scholarships
    • Teacher/Student Resources
  • Exhibitions
    • Currently on View >
      • Liliane Tomasko: Evening Wind
      • Edward Hopper's Bedroom: Reimagined
    • Upcoming Exhibitions
    • Past exhibitions >
      • Josephine Nivison Hopper: Edward's Muse
      • 2021 >
        • Caricatures
        • Terry Rosenberg
      • 2020 >
        • Object Lessons
        • Thirty Seven
      • 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 >
        • Behind Doors and Through Windows
        • Jordan Matter
        • John F. Simon, Jr.
        • Philip Koch
        • Small Matters 2015
        • 2015 Artists of the Month
        • Members Show 2015
      • 2014 >
        • Viviane Silvera photo
        • Joanne Howard Audio Tour & Photos
        • Small Matters of Great Importance: 2014
        • Melanie Rothschild installation
        • Members' Show 2014
        • Jo Hopper - Grace De Coeur 2014
        • Rockland Painters opening
        • 2014 Artists of the Month
      • 2013 >
        • Dorothea Lange's America
        • My Dear Mr. Hopper
        • Ghost Army 2013
        • Oursler opening 2013
        • Members' show 2013
        • Arthur Gunther 2013
        • 2013 Artists of the Month
      • 2012 >
        • Max Greis & Philip Koch Photos
        • Earth, Sea & In Between
        • Sky Pape & Kari Lindstrom
        • Kari Lindstrom dance performance
        • Currents 2012
        • SMGI 2012 Photos
        • Members' Exhibition-photos
      • 2011 >
        • Hopper Re-imagined-photos
        • Hopperesque-photos
        • Prelude-photo
        • SMGI 2011 opening
      • 2010
      • 2009
      • 2008
    • Sculpture in the Garden
  • Programs
    • Jazz 2022 >
      • Jazz Sponsorship
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      • Jazz 2009-2013
    • Writing Workshops >
      • More than a Muse
      • Ekphrastic
      • Writing With Hopper
    • Special Programs
    • Special Programs - PAST >
      • Sail Through Art History
      • Hopper Scenes, A "Second Act"
      • Nighthawks Magic
      • Hopper's Birthday with Anne Kullaf
      • Nyack Record Shop Project
      • Her Magnum Opus
      • Adult Art Workshop with Ceora Derow
      • 2017 Nyack Artwalk, Scapin
      • Bridgman/Packer "Voyeur"
    • For Families
    • Art Talks
  • Artist Members
    • Artist Membership Sign-Up and Payment
  • Special Events
    • Spring Benefit 2022
    • Arts Education - Ellis Sotheby's 2021
    • Spring Benefit 2021
    • 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
EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE MUSEUM AND STUDY CENTER

Josephine Nivison Hopper: EDWARD'S MUSE

October 23, 2021 - March 20, 2022
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​Curated by Elizabeth Thompson Colleary
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Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center is pleased to present Josephine Nivison Hopper: Edward’s Muse, on view from October 23, 2021 through March 20, 2022. Curated by Elizabeth Thompson Colleary, this exhibition features a selection of watercolors by Josephine (Jo) Nivison Hopper (1883-1968) and follows a show we presented in 2014 (also curated by Colleary) titled, Grace de Coeur: Watercolors by Josephine Nivison Hopper. The earlier presentation offered an overview of Jo Hopper’s work, while this exhibition focuses on the role Jo Hopper played in helping to shape Edward Hopper’s (1882-1967) artistic vision.
 
Josephine (Jo) Nivison Hopper was an established and respected artist in New York City prior to her marriage to Edward Hopper in 1924, a childless union that would endure for 43 years. Her paintings, primarily watercolors, were shown in prestigious exhibitions with the most admired European and American Modernists of the day.

The watercolors included in the current exhibition represent a small portion of the work by Jo Nivison Hopper that has come to light in recent years, thanks to the efforts of Hopper family friend, Reverend Arthayer R. Sanborn, who was the pastor of the local Baptist church. After Edward’s passing in 1967, Jo gave Rev. Sanborn several folios of her watercolors, along with journals and record books, for safekeeping and in gratitude for his friendship. While her newly discovered work is worthy of recognition in its own right, it also illuminates and expands our understanding of the Hoppers’ two-artist marriage and the crucial role that Jo played in the creation of much of Edward Hopper’s art. Indeed, with a body of Jo’s work now available for study we have the opportunity to tell the Hoppers' decades-long story of "painting together" – and in so doing, the importance of Jo’s role as Edward Hopper’s painting companion, model, and muse can finally be recognized and celebrated.

The Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center has an obligation to bring depth and understanding to the work of Edward Hopper. With this important exhibition we are able to do just that, while giving Josephine Nivison Hopper her rightful place as an artist of note whose legacy will now endure.

Josephine Nivison Hopper: Edward’s Muse is made possible with generous support from Dr. Mary Anne Evangelist, Elisabeth Voigt, and Victoria Hertz & Rod Greenwood.  

A catalogue of this exhibition is available for purchase: 

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ARTNET

"How Jo Nivison Hopper, Long Known as Wife and Model of Edward Hopper, Is Being Rediscovered as an Artistic Force in Her Own Right"
by senior writer Sarah Cascone, March 20, 2022

'PAINTING OF THE WEEK' PODCAST

You may also listen to a bit of art history and fascinating stories about Edward and Jo Hopper in Seventh Art Productions' 30 minute "Painting of the Week" podcast (Episode 38) with documentary film director Phil Grabsky and guest curator Elizabeth Thompson Colleary, recorded here at the Museum among Jo’s watercolors.

In Episode 38 "Jo Hopper, Edward Hopper, Railroad Gates," Phil and Elizabeth discuss two paintings both entitled ‘Railroad Gates’ - one by Edward Hopper and one by his wife Jo - and uncover a fascinating history in the process…⁣
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FREE COMMUNITY LECTURE

we are delighted to partner with our friends at the NYACK LIBRARY on March 6, 2022, 2pm in the Community Meeting Room where Elizabeth Thompson Colleary will discuss the art and themes of the exhibition, "Josephine Nivison Hopper: Edward's Muse." 

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After the lecture, attendees are welcome to visit the exhibition free of charge until 5pm on March 6. Register by clicking on the "Nyack Library" logo, below: ​
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Thompson Colleary will bring into focus Jo Nivison Hopper’s coming into her own as a painter and ‘modern woman’ in bohemian Greenwich Village and explore her 1924 marriage to Edward Hopper and the historical context of their 43-year union. When Jo stepped into her role as Edward’s wife, she then served as his sole model, agent and manager, social secretary, and record keeper, investing herself in his career. Thompson Colleary asks, Could Edward have ascended to the canon of American masters without Jo?
Elizabeth Thompson Colleary is an independent art historian and curator who has taught art history on the college level for twenty eight years and at Scarsdale High School for the past thirteen years. Beth also worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, where she helped develop the Hopper Research Collection at the Whitney Library. In 2004 she published "Josephine Nivison Hopper: Some Newly Discovered Works," in the Woman's Art Journal ; for EHH, she guest curated "Grace de Coeur: Watercolors by Josephine Nivison Hopper" (2014) and "Josephine Nivison Hopper: Edward's Muse" (2021). In 2013 she authored "Dear Mr. Hopper (Yale University Press) and an accompanying EHH exhibition based on letters discovered at Edward Hopper's childhood home in Nyack that updates understanding of the artist's personal life, relationship with women, and early work. ​
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This lecture is sponsored by HumanitiesNY and Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center.
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We are inviting you and someone you love to Cocktails & Music with Jo & John. Sip on a sparkling rosé cocktail, and hear melodies from the Hopper's marriage years by singer, guitarist & bandleader John Malino.

​Held in the galleries at Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, 82 North Broadway, Nyack on Wednesday, February 16, 6pm.
Your Purchase is your generous support of Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center. Each ticket also includes one Hopper-inspired artisanal cocktail, courtesy of John Henry.
Choose one:
 This special event is limited to 25 attendees, proof of vaccination required. Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center follows state and local Covid-19 guidelines relating to capacity, masks, and social distancing.
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Join us in the galleries on December 9 for Cocktails with the Curator & Jo. Sip a twist on the French 75 that we're calling the "Nivison 24", and hear guest curator Elizabeth Thompson Colleary discuss the works and themes of "Josephine Nivison Hopper: Edward's Muse" as well as Jo’s partnership with her husband, Edward Hopper. 

In tandem with this gallery talk is a special event: Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center will
unveil two new additions to “Edward’s Muse,” a pair of rarely seen watercolor paintings by Josephine Nivison Hopper from the Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust: Corn Hill (1930) of Truro’s historic cottages perched on cliffs above Cape Cod Bay and Grand Tetons, a watercolor also depicted in Edward Hopper’s Jo in Wyoming, executed from the back seat of their automobile on a 1946 road trip across America.

Each ticket also includes one Hopper-inspired artisanal cocktail, courtesy of John Henry, to toast the holidays and the final month of our yearlong 50th Anniversary celebration.

Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center follows state and local Covid-19 guidelines relating to capacity, masks, and social distancing.

Cocktails with the Curator will be held in the galleries at Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, 82 North Broadway, Nyack on Thursday, on December 9, 2021, from 6:00-7:30pm, Limited to 25 attendees, proof of vaccination required.  
Choose one:
Your Purchase is your generous support of Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, and includes one craft cocktail per person. 

The health and well-being of our visitors, our community, and our team are important to us. Mask-wearing and social distancing for fully vaccinated people is optional but recommended for everyone else over the age of 2, per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), New York State Department of Health (DOH) and local guidelines. ​
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