In the house of the classic of American painting Edward Hopper, you can now spend the night. No, he did not become a hotel. But, if on October 15 you will win auction (auction page),
organized by the Artist Hopper House Center for the House, you will get the right to spend the night in the bedroom of the artist.
Edward Hopper (1882-1967) dreamed of becoming a book illustrator, working as an advertising designer, and he won the glory of one of the most popular American artists thanks to his paintings inspired by his inhabitants. In his work, they look disappointed, lonely, devastated – as if frozen people in bars, cafes, hotels. The personal exhibition at the New York Museum of Contemporary Art in 1933 brought Hopper a huge success and worldwide glory. After this exhibition, the artist was admitted to the National Academy of Drawing. Hopper is called “a dreamer without illusions” and “a poet of empty spaces.” He painted piercing lifeless interiors and landscapes: railways, along which there is no way to leave, night cafes in which he could not hide from loneliness. For example, “Nighthawks” is one of his most famous works. They say that Hopper is the favorite artist of David Lynch.
Edward Hopper’s room, in which the winner of the auction can spend the night
And until the age of 28, Hopper lived in the city of Naikyk in the state of New York in the house of his maternal grandfather John Smith. After Edward left for New York, his sister remained in the house with his family, to whom the artist often came. Since 1971, the Artist Hopper House Center has been opened here. Recently, the center, thanks to the work of the architect Walter Kane and the interiors designer Ernest de la Torre, restored the painter in the style of the corresponding era: a wide wooden bed and a bedside table, a chest of drawers and books, a fireplace, a working corner of an artist with an easel and colors. Hopper’s fans are known that the natural lighting of the room in the morning and the view of the Hudson River had a strong influence on the artist’s work, and visitors who would find themselves here early in the morning will be able to see the game of light familiar with the “Morning Sun” canvas (1952). In addition, Hopper lovers will be able to purchase the right to spend the right in this room at the auction. The proceeds will go to the educational initiatives of the Center working in local schools, and the organization of educational space in the “House of Edward Hopper”. The online auction has already started and last until the morning of October 15, and the results will be determined at the evening of the same day in the “House of Edward Hopper”. The interior exposition is open to visits until May 31, 2017.
If you can’t win the auction, then you can stop very close, half a mile from the artist’s house at The Time Hotel Nyack.
Author: Elena Novikova-Kitaeva
