Word: nivison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works of this period show he was a good draftsman who could depict a naked woman with an earthy sensuousness that Renoir might have approved. In the early '20s on a trip back to the New York School of Art, he became interested in Art Student Josephine Verstille Nivison, a small, vivid, thirtyish woman whose volubility and quick wit were the exact opposite of Hopper's quiet slowness. In 1924, when Hopper was 42, they married. From then on, she did nearly all the modeling for his nudes and other feminine figures. Perhaps it says something about their...