Edward Hopper House Museum’s inaugural Hopper’s Nyack Plein Air Pop-Up Weekend is a local creative experience and destination event taking place throughout Nyack. Come up close to the artistic process Hopper learned and practiced while growing up in Nyack. This event also celebrates, in 2024, the 100th wedding anniversary on July 9 of Edward Hopper and Josephine Nivison - who as a couple painted watercolors side-by-side en plein air during their courtship and forty-four year marriage.
July 13-14, 2024 (Rain or shine!)
July 13-14, 2024 (Rain or shine!)
This project is made possible with funds from Arts Alive, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester and the Office of the Governor, the New York State Legislature, and the New York Council on the Arts, with additional marketing support from the Village of Nyack Tourism Grant.
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WEEKEND EVENTS
Saturday, July 13, 11a-12:30p
Lunchtime Lecture: Jo Nivison and Edward Hopper: Painting “In the Open Air”
Saturday, July 13, 1:00p-3:00p
“Hopper’s Nyack 'Flash Sketch MobTM'”
Sunday, July 14, 2024, 11a-4p
Pop-Up Plein-Air Painting: Nyack Memorial Park
Sunday, July 14, 2024, 1p-3p
“Would be Artist” Family Walking Tours
Sunday, July 14, 2024, 10p-5p
Nyack Famous Street Fair
Saturday, July 13, 11a-12:30p
Lunchtime Lecture: Jo Nivison and Edward Hopper: Painting “In the Open Air”
Saturday, July 13, 1:00p-3:00p
“Hopper’s Nyack 'Flash Sketch MobTM'”
Sunday, July 14, 2024, 11a-4p
Pop-Up Plein-Air Painting: Nyack Memorial Park
Sunday, July 14, 2024, 1p-3p
“Would be Artist” Family Walking Tours
Sunday, July 14, 2024, 10p-5p
Nyack Famous Street Fair
Saturday, July 13, 11a-12:30p
Lunchtime Lecture: Jo Nivison and Edward Hopper: Painting “In the Open Air”
Edward Hopper House Museum
Bring your own lunch; seating provided
Lunchtime Lecture: Jo Nivison and Edward Hopper: Painting “In the Open Air”
Edward Hopper House Museum
Bring your own lunch; seating provided
Josephine Nivison Hopper, Corn Hill, 1930, The Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust.
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Edward Hopper, Corn Hill, c. 1930, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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This “Painting In the Open Air” lecture and presentation by Elizabeth Thompson Colleary will present numerous oils and watercolors, many rarely seen, that Jo Nivison and Edward Hopper painted in outdoor settings where they found inspiration.
In the years before their romance began with outdoor sketching trips in Gloucester in the summer of 1923, both artists had embraced the freshness and spontaneity found painting outside on sunny days in scenic locales. They each produced numerous small oil studies on canvas and board — some in preparation for larger works completed in the studio, others executed and now embraced as finished works that captured bright, fleeting views of earth and sky with quick brushstrokes and rich, pure color.
After their marriage -100 years ago this summer- they continued the practice of painting “en plein air” but now they worked side by side outdoors, creating virtually identical watercolor compositions that are revelatory for the insights they provide into the Hoppers’ painting practices and influences on each other’s work.
In the years before their romance began with outdoor sketching trips in Gloucester in the summer of 1923, both artists had embraced the freshness and spontaneity found painting outside on sunny days in scenic locales. They each produced numerous small oil studies on canvas and board — some in preparation for larger works completed in the studio, others executed and now embraced as finished works that captured bright, fleeting views of earth and sky with quick brushstrokes and rich, pure color.
After their marriage -100 years ago this summer- they continued the practice of painting “en plein air” but now they worked side by side outdoors, creating virtually identical watercolor compositions that are revelatory for the insights they provide into the Hoppers’ painting practices and influences on each other’s work.
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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 Edward Hopper House Museum 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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Saturday, July 13, 12:30-3:30p
“Hopper's Nyack ‘Flash Sketch Mob™’”
Gather at 12:30 at Edward Hopper House Museum
“Hopper's Nyack ‘Flash Sketch Mob™’”
Gather at 12:30 at Edward Hopper House Museum
“Hopper’s Nyack ‘Flash Sketch Mob™’”
Led by Bill Batson,* participants will create dynamic and interpretive new views of Nyack. Centered around the locations from Edward Hopper House’s Walking Tour, artworks will be created en masse by artists of all skill levels that capture the streetscape, places, sights and people of the village. This project is rooted in the idea that Edward Hopper artistically responded to his environment capturing both the history and contemporary experience of what he saw - so we encourage you to capture the environment through your own creative contemporary lens, too!
Participants may register through FareHarbor, check in at 12:30p in the Garden at the Edward Hopper House Museum to receive a location assignment, then will disperse with their own art-making materials to sketch in downtown Nyack and around Hopper's neighborhood. Participants will return to the Museum by 3:30p for refreshments and to scan and share artwork.
*This event is modeled on the Flash Sketch Mob™ of 2012 and 2015 conceived and organized by Bill Batson.
Click here for Frequently Asked Questions and more participant details!
Led by Bill Batson,* participants will create dynamic and interpretive new views of Nyack. Centered around the locations from Edward Hopper House’s Walking Tour, artworks will be created en masse by artists of all skill levels that capture the streetscape, places, sights and people of the village. This project is rooted in the idea that Edward Hopper artistically responded to his environment capturing both the history and contemporary experience of what he saw - so we encourage you to capture the environment through your own creative contemporary lens, too!
Participants may register through FareHarbor, check in at 12:30p in the Garden at the Edward Hopper House Museum to receive a location assignment, then will disperse with their own art-making materials to sketch in downtown Nyack and around Hopper's neighborhood. Participants will return to the Museum by 3:30p for refreshments and to scan and share artwork.
*This event is modeled on the Flash Sketch Mob™ of 2012 and 2015 conceived and organized by Bill Batson.
Click here for Frequently Asked Questions and more participant details!
Sunday, July 14, 2024, 11a-4p
Pop-Up Plein-Air Painting
Nyack Memorial Park: 51 Piermont Avenue (park corner of Piermont and Depew), Nyack, NY 10960
Pop-Up Plein-Air Painting
Nyack Memorial Park: 51 Piermont Avenue (park corner of Piermont and Depew), Nyack, NY 10960
Families: Register in advance, and then come to Memorial Park for an afternoon of family and children's art making with plein-air painting of landscapes and objects in nature with acrylic paints (instructors and painting supplies will be at the park). Family painting instruction will be led by and in partnership with Creative Arts Workshop!
Adults: During this day-long festival, artists of all skill levels are invited to bring their own supplies and materials to paint outdoors at Nyack's Memorial Park or Edward Hopper House or throughout Nyack centered around places illustrated through Edward Hopper House Museum’s Walking Tour. Interested artists may register to participate: Check in at Edward Hopper House Museum, or our booth at the Nyack Street Fair (across from Art Cafe, adjacent to the Nyack Post Office) to receive your participation badge. After participating in the plein air activities of the weekend, participants will receive a pair of TWO Museum passes, OR two passes to a Museum program of your choice happening in 2024. Click here for parking information in Nyack.
Sunday, July 14, 2024, 1p, 2p, 3p
“Would be Artist" Family Walking Tours
Begin at Edward Hopper House Museum
“Would be Artist" Family Walking Tours
Begin at Edward Hopper House Museum
Beginning at the Museum, families with younger children may go on an artist/educator-led mini tour of Nyack using a borrowed or purchased “Would Be Artist" Kit. Titled after an inscription Edward carved on his own pencil box, the kit includes drawing tools, sketchbook and walking tour all tucked inside a canvas backpack. On the 30-45 minute tour, families can walk in Hopper's footsteps sketching places in Nyack that he frequented, observed, and drew.
