Edward Hopper And The American Hotel

Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 26 October 2019 - 23 February 2020;
then at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4 June - 13 September 2020

The painter, draftsman, and illustrator Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is one of America's best-known and most frequently exhibited artists. Hotels, motels, and tourist homes are recurring motifs in his work, along with streets, lighthouses, and gas stations forming a visual vocabulary of transportation infrastructure.

In ten essays, this exhibition catalogue explores Hopper's lifelong investigation of such spaces, shedding light on both his professional practice and far-reaching changes in transportation and communications, which affected not only work and leisure but also dynamics of race, class, and gender.