Mazow’s talk drew on his research for the book Edward Hopper and the American Hotel (2019, Yale University Press) and a similarly titled exhibition that opened in October 2019 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond. Hopper paintings series#Hall Charitable Trust, H–166.1936Īrt historian Leo Mazow gave insight to the work in “Edward Hopper’s ‘Hotel Consciousness,’” a 2019 lecture cosponsored by the School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series and Sheldon's CollectionTalk series. Edward Hopper is known for his paintings of urban isolation, and yet he did some of his best loved (and best) work in rural and small town New England. Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Anna R. Records of the acquisition, justify the purchase presciently: “ will undoubtedly be regarded as leader among American artists in future years.” The work was first shown at the University of Nebraska in March 1936, as part of the forty-sixth annual painting exhibition of the Nebraska Art Association, now the Sheldon Art Association. Perhaps the most famous painting in Sheldon’s collection, Room in New York was purchased shortly after it was completed. it is no particular street or house, but is rather a synthesis of many impressions.” In 1935, he shared that “it was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along the city streets at night. The idea for Room in New York had been on Edward Hopper’s mind long before he put brush to canvas.
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