Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape

Long before Nighthawks, Office in a Small City, or Rooms by the Sea, Edward Hopper was a young artist summering in Gloucester, Massachusetts, cultivating the style that would make him an icon of American art. In a new book on his early artistic life in the 1920s, Davis argues that not only was the seaside Massachusetts setting essential to the formation of Hopper’s style, but that his wife, painter Josephine Nivison, was a fundamental figure as well in the creation of the Hopper known today. With a groundbreaking collaboration from the Cape Ann Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art, Edward Hopper & Cape Ann (Rizzoli Electa) provides a beautifully illustrated window into Hopper like you’ve never seen him before.