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...TALL famously reticent old man will stand up this week to receive one of the highest honors possible to U.S. artists: the Gold Medal for Painting presented by the National Institute of Arts and Letters.* Edward Hopper, 72, has been informed, to his great relief, that all he has to say on that great occasion is one word: "Thanks." That, doubtless, is just what he will say. But "You're welcome" would be more appropriate, for the award itself is a kind of thanks for something that could never be paid for in coin of the realm...
Ugliness & Grandeur. Hopper had the initial good luck to study with Robert Henri, the No. 1 professor of the "Ash Can School" (TIME, May 16), who inspired him to paint the world he saw as he saw it. At first, his vision of his world was too dour to please art .collectors, and in the course of 23 long years he sold only two paintings. But with the Depression, Hopper's harsh, lonely ancbhard-bitter view-of America became-understandable to millions. Through the man-made ugliness he most often chose to paint, a raw but very human grandeur...
...Hopper's street scenes, hotel lobbies, lunch counters, gas stations and movie houses never seem temples of the human spirit, they do look very much like what they are: expressions of human striving in all its disarray. The disarray, the occasional sordidness, are only pointed up by the pristine order and clarity of his composition. Hopper's subject matter is almost invariably common, his art contrastingly austere. He presents common denominators in a monumental...
Paint & Passion. Hopper first sketched Early Sunday Morning (opposite) on "Seventh Avenue, or maybe Eighth. They've torn the shops down since." He did the oil in the small, tidy Washington Square studio where he has lived for 42 years. His wife, also an artist, poses for most of his figures, as she did for the woman in the window in Cape Cod Morning. "It's a woman looking out to see if the weather's good enough to hang out her wash," she explains. "Did I say that?" Hopper rumbles in contradiction. "You're making...
...Henri's school was unquestionably the liveliest art center in New York. Scoffing at "art for art's sake," Henri urged his students to plunge into life, read Whitman and Dostoevsky, go to see Isadora Duncan dance. Students like Guy Pène du Bois and Edward Hopper became Henri enthusiasts. So did Rockwell Kent. Assigned to paint Central Park, Kent is said to have spent the night sleeping on a park bench to get in the right mood. Young George Bellows took to haunting Sharkey's Athletic Club across the street, and was soon turning...