Edward Hopper, creator of art that novelist John Updike described as “calm, silent, stoic, luminous, and classic,” is one of the most enduring and popular American painters of the 20th century. His paintings have been celebrated as a part of the very grain and texture of the American experience. Surveying the artist’s 70-year career, Edward Hopper will feature the artist’s watercolors and oil paintings, and concentrate on his most productive years—from the mid-1920s to the mid-1950s—when he created his most enduring images such as the Art Institute’s iconic Nighthawks.
Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light
February 16—May 10
Running concurrently, the Art Institute will present Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, a show that features some of the most breathtaking and influential images within the history of the watercolor medium. This exhibition will provide an in-depth look at Homer’s practice as a watercolorist, using the Art Institute’s exceptional and extensive collection of his watercolors as a point of departure. Both exhibitions will provide a survey of the American realist tradition and chart the growth of modern subject matter—from Homer, America’s first modernist, to Hopper, the nation’s most well-known 20th-century modernist.
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