Edward Hopper

Boston: MFA Publications; Museum of Fine Arts, 2007. 263 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Edward Hopper" organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 6, 2007 to August 19, 2007; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 16, 2007 to January 21, 2008; and the Art Institute of Chicago, February 16, 2008 to May 11, 2008. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Spanning the entirety of Hopper's career, but with particular emphasis on his heyday in the twenties, thirties, and forties, Edward Hopper highlights his greatest achievements while discussing such topics as his absorption of European influences, critical reactions to his work, the relation of realism to modernism, his fascination with architecture, his depiction of women, and the struggle in his last years to produce original works. Illustrated with more than 150 of his oils, watercolors, prints, and drawings, and including essays by several noted scholars in the field and an extensive chronology and bibliography, this is the most comprehensive volume on Hopper to be published in many years." - Publisher. . Paperback. Fine. 4to.