American1882–1967
Edward Hopper
An American realist painter and printmaker, known for quiet, carefully lit scenes of modern American life in cities and the countryside. He studied under William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri in New York, and recognition came slowly, arriving in the 1920s.
A life in paintings
- 1882Born
- 1913The Armory Show
The International Exhibition of Modern Art opens in New York, then travels to Chicago and Boston, giving many Americans their first sight of European modern art.
Source: Wikipedia - 1929The Wall Street Crash
The Great Depression begins, and American painters turn to local places and ordinary lives.
- 1939The Second World War begins
War spreads across Europe, and many European artists move to New York.
Source: Wikipedia - 1942
- 1967Died
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Exhibition · New York, Chicago, Boston · 1913
Armory Show (1913)
The International Exhibition of Modern Art that introduced European modern art to American audiences, shown in New York, Chicago and Boston in 1913. Members here are artists whose work was included, living or not.
- Alfred Sisley
- Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso
- André Derain
- Camille Pissarro
- Childe Hassam
- Claude Monet
- Edgar Degas
- Édouard Manet
- Edvard Munch
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Ferdinand Hodler
- Fernand Léger
- George Wesley Bellows
- Georges Seurat
- Gustave Courbet
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Joseph Stella
- Marsden Hartley
- Mary Cassatt
- Maurice Prendergast
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Signac
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh
- Wassily Kandinsky
- William Glackens
Where to see them
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago
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