Edward Hopper: A Journal of His Work

Deborah Lyons, Brian O'Doherty, Edward Hopper

ISBN 10: 0393313301 / ISBN 13: 9780393313307

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1997

About this Item

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1997. Hardcover, 103 pp. 1st edition, 1st printing (stated, plus full number line). Tall format. Edward Hopper?s painting journals, in which he sketched out rough compositions of his paintings and made notations about color and light. With essays by Deborah Lyons andf art critic Brian O?Doherty. Foreword written by David A. Ross. Fine condition. No dust jacket, as issued.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1753559641642

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Edward Hopper: A Journal of His Work
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393313301
• ISBN 13: 9780393313307
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 2.032W x 20.066H x 31.242D centimeters 2.032 centimeters width by 20.066 centimeters height by 31.242 centimeters depth
• Weight: 748 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

About this title

Synopsis

Edward Hopper, with the help of his wife, Jo, kept scrupulously detailed notes of all his artwork and business transactions in five accountants' ledger books. Here, in a selection of facsimile pages, we see the artist as businessman, recording everything from exhibitions and reviews to sales, commissions, and resales of his varied works.

Hopper sketched most of his paintings and prints in these pages, in either pen and ink or pencil. Occasionally he added a printed reproduction as they became available. In addition to all business transactions associated with the work, Jo Hopper wrote descriptions of the colors and materials used, the subject matter, as well as personal anecdotes. In this intriguing volume, we are given a rare glimpse of this often-unseen aspect of an artist's life. We can see clearly the Hoppers' necessity and penchant for methodical record keeping and how they were able to achieve financial security through the artist's work.

About the Author

Deborah Lyons is a former curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and co-editor of Edward Hopper and the American Imagination (Norton). She lives in New Jersey.