Edward Hopper - ACE102.3

Exterior Hopper’s house. VO talking about Hopper’s months in Paris. Paintings from this period, including (1906) Paris Street, Stairway at 48 rue de Lille, Paris, Interior Courtyard at 48 Rue de Lille, Paris; (1907) Le Pont des Arts, Notre Dame de Paris, Gateway and Fence, Le Parc de Saint Cloud, Le Louvre, Pont du Carrousel in the Fog; (1909) Quai des Grands Augustins, Le Pont Royal, Bridge on the Seine. Peck and Levin VOs discussing such paintings. Soir Bleu (1914), a French subject but painted in America. Watercolour caricatures, all 1906-1907: Parisian Workman, Parisian with Wine Bottle, Cunard Sailor, Parisian Woman, Fille de joie. Peck’s VO says that Soir Bleu was considered "neither modern enough nor American enough" on its first and only exhibition in the United States. Manhattan. Levin’s VO talks about Hopper being "tied to his family, even commuting from Nyack to his studio. Peck and Levin. She says how difficult Hopper found it to sell paintings. Peck talks about the 1913 Armory show. Peck and Levin VOs over Hopper’s Sailing (1911), talking about the 1913 Armory show as "the show that shook America" by "introducing modernist abstract European painting". Hopper’s works was identified with "what was passed by". Manhattan. Peck’s VO talks about Hopper’s post-Paris career, working three days a week as a commercial illustrator until the mid-Twenties. Illustrations from System, a business magazine. Details from Office at Night (1940).