Did Edward Hopper Eat at a 'Nighthawks' Diner in Nyack?

​Gallery Talk with Michael Hays
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EHH Members: $10 Public: $15
Seating limited to 25

Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 6:00-7:15 pm

Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks (1942, The Art Institute of Chicago) is probably the best-known American painting of the 20th century. Join local Nyack Historian Mike Hayes as he looks to answer the question of whether a diner in Nyack had any influence on the genesis of Hopper's iconic painting.

Inspired by our current exhibition, "Kibbitz & Nosh: New York City's Vanishing Cafeterias - Photographs by Marcia Bricker Halperin," this gallery talk explores the early history of diners, once called “lunch wagons,” then focuses on the history of downtown Nyack diners. While early records are slim, by 1928 Nyack had eight all-night eateries, four of which were classic railroad car-style diners. While looking at the provenance of Nyack’s remaining railroad diner, Hays will also explore what influence Nyack diners had on a young Edward Hopper, which may have culminated in Hopper’s 1942 masterwork.

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ABOUT MIKE HAYS

Mike Hays is a local historian and online columnist of Nyack People & Places for Nyack News & Views. He also serves as board president of the Historical Society of the Nyacks, and vice president of the board of trustees for Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center. 

​This program has been sponsored by Humanities New York. ​

ARTISTS AT EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE WEAVE A VIBRANT CONNECTION BETWEEN HOPPER'S BEGINNINGS AND HIS ENDURING IMPACT IN NOT ONLY THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ART. ​

Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center is pleased to relaunch the Members Exhibition for current Artist Members. The Spring Show – April 1-9, 2023 – is an “Open Call Members Exhibition” showcasing up to 50 artists, each of whom may enter one original artwork. (There will be another JURIED exhibition in the Autumn.) We are happy to showcase our Artist Members in the Edward Hopper House galleries this year. 

Fully registered Artist Members will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. To participate: 

1.   JOIN or RENEW MEMBERSHIP

Questions on your membership status? Contact info@hopperhouse.org

2.   DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM

Email your signed form and jpg to info@hopperhouse.org

3.   PAY REGISTRATION FEE

4.   APPLY HERE

Important Calendar Dates: 
Friday, March  17 (5:00p) - Online Registration Deadline
Tuesday-Wednesday, March 28-29 (10:00a-4:00p) - Artwork Drop-Off
Friday, March 31 (5:00-6:30p) - Opening Reception
Saturday, April  1 (Noon-5p - Exhibition Opens to Public
Sunday, April 9 (Noon-5p) - Exhibition Last day
Monday-Tuesday, April 10 & 11 (10a-4p) - Artwork Pick-Up

URBAN RENEWAL

Because Edward regularly returned to Nyack to visit his sister Marion, he would have seen the radical changes to his hometown: the first  cars, the building of the Tappan Zee, the various urban renewal projects. The following pictures and notes are included to help illustrate some key locations and points in history. 

This circa 1960 view of Nyack is highly unusual. Taken from the west and above the village, it shows in red, green, and yellow, areas which were to be transformed by the urban renewal project. Two waterfront areas are included. The gas tanks of Standard Oil and others are at the left. Memorial Park is on the right. The yellow area is the largest and is where much sub-standard housing was located. Note that the Liberty Street School is not included in these plans. Courtesy Winston C. Perry Jr. Collection, Nyack Library.

A Photographic Journey through Hopper's World
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​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. Additional support was provided by Frames & Art by Simon

JOSEPHINE NIVISON HOPPER: EDWARD'S MUSE

October 23, 2021 - March 20, 2022

​Curated by Elizabeth Thompson Colleary

This exhibition acknowledges for the first time the crucial role that Josephine (Jo) Nivison Hopper played in the creation of much of her husband’s art, most evident in the many works they painted side by side during their courtship and 43 year marriage. Jo’s watercolors will be shown with reproductions of Edward's work  and - while also presenting some of her best early "Nivison" work - her influence on her husband's art will be a focus of the exhibit. 

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Adrien Broom: ​Holding Space

TBD 2022

​Curated by Valerie Balint

Informed by a rich education in fine and decorative art in Florence and London, Broom’s photographs combine the sensuality of classical painting with the modern techniques of photography. Broom has recently partnered with Historic Artist’s Homes and Studios and The American Writers Museum's affiliate program to create enlivened images of historic artist’s and writer’s homes. With the Mark Twain House, Florence Griswold House, Alice Austen house and soon the Pollock-Krasner house, Edward Hopper is the photographer’s favorite artist. Broom currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. 

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Second Sunday Family Workshop

Fee: $10 per family, FREE for Household Members (includes admission). 

Sunday, March 8, 12-1pm:  Second Sunday Family Workshop invites you to join Patricia Barrett and learn how to make cyanotypes.  Cyanotypes are one of the earliest photographic processes.  Patricia worked exclusively as master printer and archivist with photographer Rodney Smith for over 16 years.  Her prints have been displayed in myriad museums and galleries around the world. Patricia has an in depth knowledge of both darkroom techniques and digital processes.  
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"Patricia is the most masterful printer I know.  I studied the art of black and white printmaking for many years, and Patricia has far surpassed my ability.  Her presence is in every picture I produce, there for all to see...Patricia, my steadfast associate,  has been making the most beautiful prints imaginable.  Without her support and skill there is no photograph.  I see the picture; she makes it real."              - Rodney Smith

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​Weekends in FEBRUARY 2020:
Explore Textures

Edward Hopper's Bicycle

Arrange, layer, find, and feel. Create your own texture rubbing using materials featured in the photographs of Rodney Smith – like leaves, bark, stone – and around the Edward Hopper House, such as fabrics, bricks, wood trim, even rubber from a bicycle tire! After families create compositions by rubbing over these textures, they may participant in a scavenger hunt to find each material in the house or photo exhibition.

​Weekends in march 2020:
Study, Sketch, Stylize

Edward Hopper. American, 1882-1967. Study for Morning Sun. 1952. Fabricated chalk and graphite pencil on paper, 12 1/16 × 18 15/16in. (30.6 × 48.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art. Josephine N. Hopper Bequest. © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Edward Hopper. American, 1882-1967. Study for Morning Sun. 1952. Fabricated chalk on paper, 11 × 8 1/2in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art. Josephine N. Hopper Bequest. © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Edward Hopper. American, 1882-1967. Morning Sun. 1952. Oil on canvas, 28 1/8 x 40 1/8 in. Columbus Museum of Art. Howald Fund Purchase

Before creating paintings, Edward Hopper made careful sketches of what he observed. Come sketch people and rooms in the Hopper House, and then add watercolor and details in the Art Lab! Family members can work independently, or adults can sketch and children can add watercolor.

Group Tours

Please note: The Edward Hopper House does not have bathroom accommodations for a large groups. As an historic house, the Museum has only a single stall accessible bathroom. 

Group Tours are not being offered at this point in time due to safety concerns regarding COVID-19. 

Group Tours may ONLY be scheduled before noon Wednesdays - Sundays. 

​Group Tour Requests are necessary for groups of 10 persons or more with 2 weeks advance notice (maximum 40 people in a group). 

• $10 - Adults
• ​$8 - Seniors
• ​$5 - Students ​

There is a $30 deposit for any group tour. There are no refunds for tour deposits. Tours can not be rescheduled with less than 48 hours notice; if a tour is rescheduled more than 48 hours prior to reserved date, the deposit can be used for the new tour date.

A Walking Tour of Edward Hopper's Nyack may be included in a group tour (click here to complete a Tour Request).

Tours are available in the following languages by request: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Mandarin.  

Grupo y Tours privados pueden estar disponibles en los siguientes idiomas, a petición: Inglés, español, francés, portugués, mandarín.

Le groupe et les visites privées peuvent être disponibles dans les langues suivantes, sur demande: Anglais, Espagnol, Français, Portugais, Mandarin. 

O grupo e as excursões privadas podem estar disponíveis nos seguintes idiomas, por solicitação:
Inglês, Espanhol, Francês, Português, Mandarim.

团体和私人旅游可以通过以下语言提供：英文，西班牙文，法文，葡萄牙文，普通话​

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School Groups

Special resources may be made available to school groups. Click here to complete Tour Request.

​Weekends in JANUARY 2020:
CREATIVE COLLAGE

Rodney Smith

How will you combine figures and settings in surprising ways? Experiment with composition and storytelling as you create a collage inspired by the works of Edward Hopper and landscape photography by Rodney Smith. A workshop for ALL AGES, you will experiment with compositional possibilities before gluing down pieces, and tell stories through collage.

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​Weekends in DECEMBER 2019:
HOPPER HOUSE ORNAMENTS

odgkin's House, 1928, oil on canvas, Anonymous Collector, National Gallery of Art, D.C.

Join us as we create Hopper-Inspired ornaments of Hopper-like Houses! 

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Edward Hopper House invites visitors ​to see the Riley Family Reading Room, which houses the Sanborn-Hopper Family Archive, now open on Saturdays and Sundays in April & May.

Home to over 1,000 documents and objects dating from the years when the Hopper family resided at 82 North Broadway, there will be presentations starting at 2pm in the Archive. They will cover topics ranging from Hudson River history to women’s history by engaging with materials from the Archive such as diaries, notebooks, and letters. Visitors can explore how these social and historical themes were present in Hopper’s youth, as well as in the lives of his sister, Marion, and mother, Elizabeth. Additional materials from the archival collection will be on view long term in the vitrine located in the Reading Room.

To request a visit to the Archive, please email info at hopperhouse dot org. Visitor hours for the Archive specifically are from Saturdays and Sundays in April and May, 1pm to 4pm.

​Weekends in November 2019:
Hopper'S Houses

Edward Hopper, House at the Fort, Gloucester, watercolor, 1924, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Share Hopper's love for homes by designing and building your own house, or recreate your favorite Hopper House. Play with dimension, shape, and color as you create your own 3D paper house model. 

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The Main Gallery (comprising the two south galleries)

Main Gallery (Richard Tuschman)

Main Gallery (Mercedes Helnwein, Spring 2017)

Main Gallery (Rock Paper Scissors)

Main Gallery (Angela Fraleigh)

Main Gallery (Milton Glaser)

Four shows take place in the main gallery each year.  Exhibition proposals should respond to one or more aspects of Edward Hopper's life or work, themes, the house itself, or the EHH collections.

Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center is not currently accepting proposals for exhibitions.

​seeks to maintain a consistent set of standards for all exhibitions and displays within its public spaces.  As Edward Hopper's home and the place where he developed his artistic vision, we have a unique opportunity to tell the story of the house and home, the Hopper family, and Edward Hopper the artist, by presenting exhibitions that are thought provoking and visually engaging, encompassing high concept themes and subjects, while promoting Hopper's artistic legacy and the influence of the house upon it.

Exhibitions should align with our mission “to celebrate Edward Hopper’s legacy by preserving his birthplace, family home and archive while serving as a resource for scholars and artists and nurturing community engagement with the arts.”

Exhibitions are selected in consultation with the Exhibition Committee, a diverse group of professional artists and curators.  

GALLERY EXHIBITION PROPOSAL APPLICATION

Submissions for 2019 in the Main Gallery are now closed. The next calendar year being considered for the main galleries is 2020.  In order to review your art for the next season being considered, submissions must be received by January 31 (e.g. to be considered for 2020, submit by January 31, 2018).  Complete the submission form below.

We encourage group submissions and curator proposals as well.  We may ask you to resubmit or hold on to your work for consideration in the following year.  Artists/curators are welcome to submit proposals for the any of above slots/shows, if the guidelines allow. 

Unless otherwise agreed, artists are responsible for delivery/pickup and all related costs.   With the exception of Artist of the Month, the Edward Hopper House does not handle sales of artwork. 

Thank you for your interest in exhibiting at the Edward Hopper House.  Please contact Jennifer Patton, Executive Director, at jpatton @ hopperhouse.org with any questions.

Exhibiting Guidelines

FLOOR PLAN

Friday, July 13, 2018 - 8pm (rain date Sunday, July 20)

"LIVE" TRAILER

a Short Film by Local Filmmaker
CHARLES CASTER-DUDZICK 

"Charles Caster-Dudzick paints, screenwrites, animates, crafts, edits video, acts, and shoots film. Whether on his new experimental series "Synapse Enforcer," an animation, a piece of music, a script, or a new watercolor, oil, or digital painting, Caster-Dudzick spends as much time as possible creating."

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FEATURE PRESENTATION

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him. -IMDB

"What makes Point Blank so extraordinary, however, is not its departures from genre conventions, but Boorman’s virtuoso use of such unconventional avant-garde stylistics to saturate the proceedings with a classical noir mood of existential torpor and romanticized fatalism. The action is set against (and within) a sunny corporate L.A. landscape characterized by its sterile, overwhelming enormity—situated in the corners of Boorman’s off-kilter compositions, a colossal architectural or natural edifice weighing down upon his back (if not literally crowding him off the screen), Walker is denied sanctuary. Through odd camera angles and stylized compositions that position our hero as powerless and adrift amid this malevolent, foreign metropolis, Boorman creates a tone of uneasy dislocation. Los Angeles seems more menacingly inhospitable in sunshine than at night, and this irony plays into the film’s dichotomy between the old and new world.

​- Nick Schager, SLANT Magazine, July 24, 2003 <https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/point-blank>

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GOODIE RAFFLE

We are thrilled to have Olde York Farm's Distillery in the House tonight, who will raffle off a bottle of their delicious liquor to one lucky movie-goer.