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Art
Available: March 2013
ISBN: 9783829606208
Price: £39.95
Format: Hardback
Pages: 140
Illustrations: 112 col plates
Size: 300 x 190 mm
Category: Art
Rights: Worldwide
This title is distributed in the UK by KNO
16 JOHN RULE Spring 2013
Schirmer/Mosel
Edward Hopper: Paintings and
Ledger Book Drawings
Adam Weinberg et al
Edward Hopper’s ledger books, part of the New York
Whitney Museum’s large Hopper holdings, provide the
unique opportunity to peer into the creative process of
one of the most private and taciturn artists of the modern
era. Together with his wife, Hopper recorded paintings
made and paintings sold, accountings made and payments
received, materials used and subjects considered. What
the sketches and notations convey, however, is not the dayto-day
working process of just any painter, but of an artist
whose subject engaged the very notion of the quotidian
in a manner unrivalled to the present day. And they
shed a new light on the Whitney Museum’s special and
privileged relationship with the artist. Juxtaposing selected
original ledger pages with full colour reproductions of the
respective paintings, our volume, an original Schirmer/
Mosel production, documents the making-of and
subsequent fate of Edward Hopper’s most revered works.
With an introduction by Adam Weinberg director of the
Whitney Museum and texts by Deborah Lyons and Brian
O’Doherty.