Hopper is known for his oil paintings, but he also made etchings…
House by the Railroad, 1925
Hopper was not initially successful as an artist, so he made ends meet with freelance illustration work…
Poster illustration, Smash the Hun (1919)
Frank Rehn gave Hopper his first solo show in 1924. Hopper was 42.
Automat, 1927
The Seattle Art Museum expected to receive Chop Suey after the death of the collector and patron Barney Ebsworth this year, but instead the family is having the painting is auctioned at Christie’s. The painting was recently valued at $70 million.
Clamdigger, 1935
Hopper was not prolific, he painted only 366 canvases in his lifetime. If he started painting when he was in his early 20’s, and painted until the year he died, this would be an average of one painting every 2 months. During the 1950s, when he was in his 70s, he produced approximately five paintings a year.
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. TONDO At my recent artist’s talk, Suzanne …
“Anything done more than a week ago I’m embarrassed about. You think you can get it right, but you never get it right. No one’s got it right. Who got it right?” – Harry Ally Source: http://www.escapeintolife.com/mixed-media-2/breaking-the-mold-art-of-harry-ally/ Harry Paul Ally paints with dry pigments, acrylics, tar, fabrics, oils, bonding agents, and different clays dug from the …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7749″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Make ink blots by applying paint, ink, ketchup (or anything else around) in a random pattern, then immediately folding and pressing the paper in half. Open the paper back up, and tell us what you see. Share photographs of your Rorschachs and what you see in them (and in others’) …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8162″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] They started as doodles of cups on legal pads, these thoughtful experiments in color and line by Lendy Hensley. The color concepts were inspired by colorist Josef Albers, the linear compositions were inspired by potter Gwyn Hanssen Pigott. Lendy combined the two, plus quite a bit of her own …
Did you know this about Edward Hopper?
Self Portrait, charcoal, 1903
Hopper is known for his oil paintings, but he also made etchings…
House by the Railroad, 1925
Hopper was not initially successful as an artist, so he made ends meet with freelance illustration work…
Poster illustration, Smash the Hun (1919)
Frank Rehn gave Hopper his first solo show in 1924. Hopper was 42.
Automat, 1927
The Seattle Art Museum expected to receive Chop Suey after the death of the collector and patron Barney Ebsworth this year, but instead the family is having the painting is auctioned at Christie’s. The painting was recently valued at $70 million.
Clamdigger, 1935
Hopper was not prolific, he painted only 366 canvases in his lifetime. If he started painting when he was in his early 20’s, and painted until the year he died, this would be an average of one painting every 2 months. During the 1950s, when he was in his 70s, he produced approximately five paintings a year.
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