I probably won't be able to get to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts to see the Edward Hopper retrospective (May 6th to August 19th) including nearly a 100 of the artist's paintings, watercolors and prints, but maybe I can make it when the exhibition moves to the National Gallery of Art in September or next year when it travels to the Art Institute of Chicago. Without question, Hopper is my favorite American painter; his work evokes an immediate emotional reaction in me unlike just about any other artist I know except maybe Cezanne.
I suppose I'll have to settle for now on the slide show at the MFA site, the slightly different selection by Christopher Benfey noting the MFA exhibit over at Slate, and of course the images of Hopper's work variously located throughout the internet. I'm not sure I agree with Benfey's comparison of Hopper with the Surrealists, but then I'm one of those "don't know much about art but I know what I like" guys. Oh well. Hopper fans, especially those in the Boston, D.C. or Chicago area, enjoy.
