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Folleto de la exposición - Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

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EDWARD HOPPER1882-1967Edward Hopper nació en Nyack y vivió durante toda su vida en Nueva York,aunque pasó veraneos <strong>la</strong>rgos junto al mar en su estudio <strong>de</strong> Cape Cod. Hijo<strong>de</strong> un matrimonio <strong>de</strong> c<strong>la</strong>se media mo<strong>de</strong>sta, manifestó su vocación por <strong>la</strong>pintura <strong>de</strong>s<strong>de</strong> muy joven. Tras estudiar ilustración comercial durante unaño, se matriculó en los cursos <strong>de</strong> pintura <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> New York School of Art,cuyo director era William Merritt Chase. Allí se inscribió en el taller <strong>de</strong>Robert Henri, un profesor que <strong>de</strong>fendía un realismo orientado hacia <strong>la</strong>representación <strong>de</strong> temas <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> vida cotidiana <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> sociedad americana.Terminados sus estudios, Hopper viajó a París y permaneció allí duranteel curso <strong>de</strong> 1906-1907. Volvió a <strong>la</strong> capital francesa, en estancias más cortasen 1909 y 1910. A partir <strong>de</strong> entonces y hasta su fallecimiento en 1967sólo salió <strong>de</strong>l territorio <strong>de</strong> los Estados Unidos para hacer un par <strong>de</strong> viajes<strong>de</strong> corta duración a México.Edward Hopper was born in Nyack and lived all his life in New York althoughhe spent long summers by the sea in his Cape Cod studio. Borninto a mo<strong>de</strong>st, middle-c<strong>la</strong>ss family, Hopper’s interest in painting revealeditself at a very young age. He studied commercial illustration for a yearthen enrolled in the painting c<strong>la</strong>sses at the New York School of Art, directedby William Merritt Chase. There Hopper joined the studio of RobertHenri, a teacher who promoted a realism that focused on the <strong>de</strong>pictionof everyday American life. Having completed his studies Hopper went toParis where he spent the aca<strong>de</strong>mic year 1906–07, returning there for shorterperiods in 1909 and 1910. From that date onwards until his <strong>de</strong>ath in1967 the artist only left the United States to make a couple of short tripsto Mexico.

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