Painting a New York Everyman

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The first time he painted his father, a lawyer, Max used him as a model for a 1982 painting of a businessman on a subway platform. The success of that piece led to more sittings and more paintings, in oil or watercolor on wood. Inspired by Edward Hopper and 17th-century Dutch genre painting, many of the resulting images were real-life scenes — Richard visiting the post office, waiting for an elevator — while others, like that of father and son playing a game of pool, were painted from the imagination. Richard Ferguson was a devoted father, his son said, but he wasn’t demonstrative. “Perhaps,” he said, “painting him was one way of trying to elicit more love and approbation.”

In “Painting My Father,” opening Monday at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum in Greenwich Village, Max Ferguson offers 30 years of these realist snapshots. The show, Mr. Ferguson’s 13th solo exhibition, captures his father as he was, and as he wished him to be — all against a backdrop of a fading midcentury New York.

Source: New York Times (blog)

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“Edward Hopper, Prelude: The Nyack Years” presents 18 paintings and drawings, all but one created while Hopper lived in the house, from 1882, the year of his birth, until 1910, when he moved to Greenwich Village — and all chosen as evidence that the
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Painting a New York Everyman

31.12.69

The first time he painted his father, a lawyer, Max used him as a model for a 1982 painting of a businessman on a subway platform. The success of that piece led to more sittings and more paintings, in oil or watercolor on wood. Inspired by Edward Hopper and 17th-century Dutch genre painting, many of the resulting images were real-life scenes — Richard visiting the post office, waiting for an elevator — while others, like that of father and son playing a game of pool, were painted from the imagination. Richard Ferguson was a devoted father, his son said, but he wasn’t demonstrative. “Perhaps,” he said, “painting him was one way of trying to elicit more love and approbation.”

In “Painting My Father,” opening Monday at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum in Greenwich Village, Max Ferguson offers 30 years of these realist snapshots. The show, Mr. Ferguson’s 13th solo exhibition, captures his father as he was, and as he wished him to be — all against a backdrop of a fading midcentury New York.

Source: New York Times (blog)

Paintings Edward Hopper - Bookshelf


Edward Hopper, Painter of Light and Shadow
48 pages 		Edward Hopper, Painter of Light and Shadow

Creator: Susan Goldman Rubin | 2007-08-01
Discusses the life and work of the American realist painter.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Edward Hopper's New England
36 pages 		Edward Hopper's New England

Creator: Carl Little, Edward Hopper | 1993-09-01
This book presents many of Hopper's finest paintings of the region and examines the crucial role New England played in Hopper's development as an artist.
Publisher: Pomegranate
Edward Hopper, An Intimate Biography
678 pages 		Edward Hopper, An Intimate Biography

Creator: Gail Levin | 1998-04-10
" "This second, expanded edition doubles the number of illustrations, including a new section of paintings in color, and presents the author's analysis of the book's impact and reception.
Publisher: Univ of California Press

Paintings Edward Hopper - News


Celebrating Hopper, a Favorite Son
New York Times - Jun 11, 2011
“Edward Hopper, Prelude: The Nyack Years” presents 18 paintings and drawings, all but one created while Hopper lived in the house, from 1882, the year of his birth, until 1910, when he moved to Greenwich Village — and all chosen as evidence that the

Bowdoin College Museum Of Art: A Must-See For Edward Hopper Lovers
Examiner.com - Jun 14, 2011
Hopper's work in Maine is a little known jewel that has rarely been the subject of a full-scale exhibit before. Expect a total of 90 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints. Hopper devotees can expect to find a whole new dimension to the artist's

Theatre review: Nighthawks
Scotsman - Jun 14, 2011
EDWARD Hopper's Nighthawks is a brooding painting of lonely city life, an image of three customers and a man serving in the only illuminated corner of a shadowy after-hours street. It is this picture that playwright Annie George alludes

Seeking Edward Hopper
New York Times - Jun 11, 2011
Seeking Edward Hopper An artist's depiction of a person or a place, whether in painting, writing or film, is always an internal depiction. Those seeking an actual place to connect Edward Hopper's painting of “Drug Store” to the corner store on Waverly Place will never find

Art review: "Edward Hopper, Prelude: The Nyack Years"
NorthJersey.com - May 22, 2011
The result is that feeling of aloneness in Hopper's painting. It was a feeling he would take with him to New York City, into such urban subjects as "Early Sunday Morning" with its blank brick façade and the isolated souls in hotel lobbies and coffee