¬Josephine UhilaProf. Anne Norcross Art History: Exhibition Introduction November 26, 2013 Edward Hopper's Seclusion Scenes Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York in 1882, on July 22. Her family was a middle class family, whose names were Elizabeth Hopper and Garrett Hopper. His mother always encouraged art and theater and that's exactly what Hopper did. In 1899 Hopper graduated from Nyack High School with the desire to dedicate a life to art. He eventually headed to the New York School of Art and studied with William Merritt Chase. Chase's influence manifests itself later in Hopper's works, such as Blond Woman Before an Easel. Hopper transitioned through many styles and mediums as he developed into a more mature artist. Hopper traveled to Paris in 1906, where he created oil paintings of Paris and also watercolors. Hopper was considered a modernist artist: unlike European modernists who crowded their paintings with people, Hopper's paintings did not include dictators or wars involved. In this way Hopper showed a huge difference between his style and European modernism. It was in 1909, upon returning from another trip from Paris, that he began his mature painting style by adding light sources and shadows and eventually rid himself of themes that no longer interested him. “Etching also allowed Hopper to suspend questions of color and focus on light, which was of primary importance to him” (Hobbs 51). However, he learned to engrave to better incorporate light into his artwork. It follows the way early American artists used transcendentalism, but in a new way that involves the city. Hopper painted and drew many themes, but the one I will focus on are cities. The theme of the city is a theme that inter...... at the center of the paper ......d Hopper and the American imagination. Ed. Giulia Grau. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with W. W. Norton, 1995. Print.Schjeldahl, Peter. "Ordinary people." The New Yorker May 21, 2007: 88. General OneFile. Network. November 11, 2013. Stern, Fred. "Hopper: The Loneliness of Edward Hopper." World and I February 2011. General OneFile. Network. November 11, 2013. Tushnet, Eva. "Nude but not exhibited: Edward Hopper at the National Gallery." Commonweal 134.21 (2007): 24+. General OneFile. Network. November 11, 2013.Donnell, Graham Courtney. Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago (1973-1982), vol. 75, no. 4 (October - December 1981), pp. 1-3SMITH, ROBERTA. "A Master, Between the Lines 'Hopper Drawing,' at the Whitney Museum." The New York Times. Np, 6 June 2013. Web. 11 November. 2013. .