Word: hoppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best known of 20th century American artists, Edward Hopper, who died in 1967, is familiar to generations of gallerygoers for his pictures of stark New England scenery and lonely city streets. But even before he achieved fame, Hopper was known to thousands of magazine readers as an illustrator and printmaker...
...books show why Gail Levin's Edward Hopper as Illustrator (Norton/ The Whitney Museum of American Art; 288 pages; $24.95) brings together the dramatic paintings and drawings Hopper executed for the covers of such publications as Tavern Topics and Hotel Management, as well as the illustrations he did for books and catalogues. Levin's companion volume, Edward Hopper: The Complete Prints (Norton/The Whitney Museum; unpaginated; $15.95), reproduces more than 100 of the artist's etchings and dry points...
...achievement stuns one's senses. The corn would fill 2 million jumbo hopper cars that would stretch 13 times across the U.S. Those 320,000 machines at work in the fields now, if lined up wheel to wheel, could harvest the state of Iowa in a day. (This harvest by 5 million farm workers would have taken, before machines, 31 million people using 61 million horses and mules...
...agricultural transportation system in the U.S. is in badly rundown condition, with alternative routes so overburdened that they are unable to cope with any kind of unusual demand. Every year at harvest time, there is a severe shortage of hopper cars and boxcars for carrying grain. Meanwhile, many of the railroads that serve the nation's agricultural heartland are failing. The Rock Island, for example, is bankrupt and has been in receivership for the past four years. The strike resulted from its inability to pay clerks and transportation workers $9 million in retroactive...
...small and sharply edited output, is to make sight and formal deliberation fuse. The conjunctions within Arikha's work, its breadth of language and depth of feeling set off against its insecurity and self-questioning, make it unlike any thing done by an American figurative painter since Edward Hopper. So does its intelligence. Nothing in this show is raw, or facile, or - especially - as simple as it looks. -Robert Hughes