Gary D. Moon Photographer

03/03/2023

07/23/2022

Edward Hopper was born in 1882.

💬 Hopper was a lifelong devotee of cinema and theater, both of which became subjects for his paintings. Each form influenced his compositions.

Like most of the female figures in Hopper’s paintings, this one was based on his wife, Jo, who posed standing under a lamp in the hall of their apartment. Hopper drew his wife in various different poses for "New York Movie" and also precisely designed the auditorium decor, down to the pattern of the carpet. Again and again, he sketched the foyers, stairways, and auditoriums of his favorite movie houses, the Palace, Globe, Republic, and Strand.

The usherette is a 20th-century counterpart to the bored waitress in A Bar at the Folies-Bergeres of Edouard Manet. Similar to Manet, Hopper was genius in making the illusory world of the theater so enticing, so glamorous, and so completely empty.

Visit our article to for paintings presenting theaters and cinemas.
➡️ "Theater and Cinema in Edward Hopper’s Paintings"
https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/theatres-edward-hoppers-paintings/
✍️ Zuzanna Stanska

🖼️ Edward Hopper, New York Movie, 1939, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.