Youthful Edward Hopper Oil Paintings Revealed to Be Copies of Other Artists’ Work
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An excerpt from Louis Shadwick’s new Edward Hopper biography, published in the Art Newspaper Tuesday, reveals that all six of the artist’s early oil paintings are in fact copies of other artists’ works, rather than Hopper’s own original compositions. Hopper made the paintings in a studio in his family’s home in Nyack, New York, when he was a teenager, before attending art school in New York City.
The works were discovered in the attic of Hopper’s childhood home in the late 1960s, after the artist’s death, by the Reverend Arthayer R. Sanborn. Sanborn, a Baptist minister, lived down the street from Hopper’s family and had cared for Hopper’s sister and wife. He somewhat controversially acquired a trove of Hopper memorabilia—letters, photographs, notebooks, and the like—along with early paintings and drawings, from the Hopper house in Nyack as well as the couple’s Greenwich Village apartment. Much of this archive is now owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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