Edward & Josephine Nivison
Hopper: Portrait Af A (Two-Artist) Marriage
The lectures will introduce us to
Elizabeth Thompson Colleary's book on the Hopper marriage, which
grew
from more than two decades of research on Edward Hopper's images of
women and the rediscovery of
Josephine Nivison Hopper's work. Colleary wrote about her discovery
of Jo Hopper's long-lost art for the
Woman's Art Journal in 2004, and since then has located more of Jo's
work and reconstructed her
impressive artistic career. Recently, working with a private
collector in Florida who was a Hopper family
friend, Colleary discovered a trove of personal papers, and letters
never seen by earlier Hopper scholars,
which chronicle previously unknown romantic liaisons and shed new
light on the work of both artists.
ELIZABETH THOMPSON COLLEARY
taught Art History on the college level for 28 years. She has taught
at Scarsdale High School for the past ten years. She is a consultant
at the Whitney Museum of American
Art where she was instrumental in the creation of the Hopper
Research Collection in the Whitney Library.
The lectures will introduce us to
Elizabeth Thompson Colleary's book on the Hopper marriage, which
grew
from more than two decades of research on Edward Hopper's images of
women and the rediscovery of
Josephine Nivison Hopper's work. Colleary wrote about her discovery
of Jo Hopper's long-lost art for the
Woman's Art Journal in 2004, and since then has located more of Jo's
work and reconstructed her
impressive artistic career. Recently, working with a private
collector in Florida who was a Hopper family
friend, Colleary discovered a trove of personal papers, and letters
never seen by earlier Hopper scholars,
which chronicle previously unknown romantic liaisons and shed new
light on the work of both artists.