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Edward Hopper Biography
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1882 |
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Born: July 22, Nyack, New York
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1899 - 1900 |
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Studied illustration at the Correspondence School of Illustrating, New York
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1905 |
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Employed as an illustrator by C. C. Phillips & Company, a New York advertising agency
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1900 - 1906 |
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Studied painting at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri
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1907 |
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Participates in his first exhibition, organised by fifteen of Robert Henri’s students in the old Harmonie Club building, New York
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1923 |
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Begins to paint with watercolours, Awarded prizes for etching in exhibitions in Chicago and Los Angeles
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1915 - 1924 |
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Learns to etch and concentrates on printmaking
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1935 |
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Awarded Temple Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the First Purchase Prize in watercolour, Worchester Art
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1945 |
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Awarded Logan Art Institute Medal and Honorarium, The Art Institute of Chicago
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1950 |
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Awarded honorary degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, by the Art Institute of Chicago
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1953 |
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Awarded Honorary degree, Doctor of Letters, Rutgers University
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1955 |
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Gold Medal for Painting presented by the National Institute of Arts and Letters in the name of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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1956 |
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Awarded Huntington Hartford Foundation fellowship
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1960 |
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Receives Art in America Annual Award
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1963 |
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Receives award from the St Botolph Club, Boston
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1964 |
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Awarded M. V. Khonstamn Prize for Painting, The Art Institute of Chicago
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1965 |
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Awarded honorary degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, Philadelphia College of Art
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1966 |
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Awarded Edward MacDowell Medal
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1967 |
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Died: May 15, New York City
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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1979
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Edward Hopper: Prints and Illustrations, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY (solo)
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1969
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Edward Hopper: Retrospective, Detroit Institute of Arts and City Art Museum, St Louis (solo)
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1964
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Edward Hopper: Retrospective,Whitney Museum of American Art and Art Institute of Chicago (solo)
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1963
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Edward Hopper: Retrospective, Arizona Art Gallery, South Truro, MA (solo)
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1962
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The Complete Graphic Work of Edward Hopper, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (solo)
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1959
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Currier Gallery of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (solo)
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1952
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Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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1950
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Edward Hopper: Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts (solo)
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1933
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Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo)
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1929
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Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans, MoMA, New York
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1925
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Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia
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1924
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Rehn Gallery, New York (solo)
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1923
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Humorist’s Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York
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1920
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Whitney Studio Club, New York (solo)
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1913
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Armory Show, New York
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1907
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Participated in his first exhibition, Harmonie Club building, New York
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| Links to further information |
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