Whitney Museum gets new evidence of Hopper's work

New York ’s Whitney Museum has been enriched with an important collection from the Sanborn Hopper Foundation.

The museum, which already possessed the world’s largest collection of works created by Edward Hopper, received the gift of letters, drawings, photos, notebooks, and gallery receipts totaling some 4,000 testimonials belonging to Hopper and his wife Josephine Nivison.

“Notebooks, photos, letters, and receipts shed light on the couple’s daily lives, their friendships, the financial aspects of his production as an artist, and his personal reflections on painting,” says Carol Troyen, head of American painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Also, to mark the 50th anniversary of the artist’s passing, more than 1,000 childhood memorabilia and drawings donated by the Sanborn Hopper Foundation will be on display at the Nyack home where Hopper grew up.

Source: Ansa - Corriere della Sera

Image: Edward Hopper, Soir bleu (1914, oil on canvas, 91.4 x 182.9 cm; New York, Whitney Museum)

Whitney Museum gets new evidence of Hopper's work

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