Masters of their craft
Subtitle: highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
By: Kenneth R. Trapp.
Contributors: Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Series: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Publisher: Smithsonian American Art Museum; W.W. Norton
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Smithsonian American Art Museum -- Catalogs; Decorative arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Catalogs; Decorative arts -- Washington, D.C. -- Catalogs
Genres: Catalogs.
Other titles: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Description: "During the summer of 1923, Edward Hopper fled the summer heat of New York City with thousands of others. His destination was the resort town of Gloucester. It was there - perhaps inspired by the particular light and quality of the place - that he took up the medium of watercolor. It was also there that he met his future wife, fellow painter, and constant companion, Jo Nivison.

Together that summer Hopper and Jo turned their backs on Gloucester Harbor and the forest of easels set up to depict that most popular of scenes. Instead they explored the back streets and outlying areas, discovering and painting the homes of sea captains and immigrant laborers, Coast Guard stations, and lighthouses.".

"Virginia Mecklenburg, senior curator at the National Museum of American Art, and Margaret Lynne Ausfeld curator at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, offer us in this volume the unique treatment of this aspect of Hopper's work as a coherent whole. In the watercolors we see a different facet of Hopper than the one we are accustomed to from his oils, for which be is better known today."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.