Hopper was his own accountant. Gathered in one volume are his ledgers.

Published by Jaca Book, the volume Edward Hopper: Paintings & Drawings from Ledger Books makes the so-called ledger books of Edward Hopper, now housed at the Whitney Museum in New York, available to all. One could call what is contained in the ledger books a kind of inventory of a life in the service of art. Ledger books where Hopper, together with his wife Jo, jotted down and recorded paintings sold, payments for them, accounts, details of purchases, techniques and materials used, and anything else that had to do with his activities as an artist and as a “seller” of his own works.

Sketches of his paintings are accompanied in the ledgers by comments, descriptions and even dialogue. A shared biography of Hopper and his wife Jo, also a painter, testifies to the couple’s complicity.

The volume collects preparatory studies for the paintings, then sketches, sketches and drawings, flanked by color reproductions of the various works. It was Jo who began keeping the records soon after their marriage in 1924, continuing until the painter’s death in 1967.

Paintings & Drawings from the Ledgers is introduced by Adam D Winberg and contains essays by Deborah Lyons and Brian O’Doherty.

Hopper was his own accountant. Gathered in one volume are his ledgers.

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