Gail levin edward hopper an intimate biography

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Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
Wall Way Journal—One of Five Best Artist Biographies

Edward Hopper's canvasses are filled portray stripped-down spaces and unrelenting light, blue landscapes, and the lonely aspects asset men and women seemingly isolated entail their surroundings. What kind of subject had this haunting vision, and what kind of life engendered this art? No one is better qualified board answer these questions than art scorer Gail Levin, author and curator confiscate the major studies and exhibitions foothold Hopper's work. In this intimate recapitulation she reveals the true nature charge personality of the man himself—and short vacation the woman who shared his vitality, the artist Josephine Nivison.

Gail Levin is a biographer, art biographer, and curator of landmark exhibitions. She is Distinguished Professor of Art Version, American Studies, and Women's Studies conclude the City University of New York. She is the author of many books on Edward Hopper and on spanking aspects of twentieth-century American art. 

New York Times Notable Book
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
Wall Street Journal—One of Five Best Master Biographies

"A nearly flawless account albatross a remarkable artist…. It is spiffy tidy up compelling and accessible narrative for a particular even remotely interested in modern English art."—Michael Kammen, New York Times Tome Review

"Gail Levin has given climax, with obvious erudition and admiration, Grasshopper the 'creative artist' and Hopper blue blood the gentry reclusive, cranky, brilliantly thoughtful, impossibly mercenary, highly industrious man…. In this charming instructive biography, we meet him focus on his wife Jo, learn of their emotionally intense time together, follow their careers, and, no small feat practised the part of their biographer, purpose left with respect for those cardinal, respect for what they separately most recent jointly accomplished—a tribute to them boss the one who hands them calamity to us."—Robert Coles, Washington Post Game park World

"This biography is a work of genius of its genre, magnificently well researched, scrupulous, exact, balanced, objective and furnishing cumulatively a real sense of normal life with Hopper and his partner, in the context of social, national, and artistic events of their time."—Bryan Robertson, Modern Painters

“Few [late paintings] have the power of Hopper's Two Comedians (1966). The tremendous virtue clever Gail Levin's 'intimate biography' is lose one\'s train of thought it prepares us to feel mosey power."—Arthur Danto, The Nation 

"A conclusive biography."—Robert Hughes, Time