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Edward Hopper 'copied other artist's paintings': Art student debunks legendary artist's claim to be an 'American original'
A student has discovered that one of America's most celebrated artists copied many of his earlier works from other paintings. Louis Shadwick, researching a doctorate on Edward Hopper at the ...
Artnet4y
Some of Edward Hopper’s Earliest Paintings Are Actually Copies He Made From a How-To Art Magazine
How did the acclaimed American artist Edward Hopper learn to paint? By copying other artists’ work out of instructional art magazines, it appears. A graduate student at the Courtauld Institute ...
USA Today4y
Is Edward Hopper a plagiarist? Experts weigh in on allegations painter copied early works
It used to be easy to tell if an Edward Hopper painting was a fake. If James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe were sipping coffee in the "Nighthawks" diner, you could be pretty sure ...
Smithsonian Magazine4y
Some of Edward Hopper’s Earliest Paintings Are Copies of Other Artists’ Work
Left: Edward Moran, A Marine, 1880 (Repr. The Art Interchange, 14th August 1886) Right: Edward Hopper, Ships, c.1898 (Foosaner Art Museum, Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights ...
The Art Newspaper4y
The story behind a student who discovered Edward Hopper's earliest paintings were copies
New research by an art history PhD student reveals that the earliest known oil paintings by Edward Hopper—the celebrated artist of American solitude—were copies. At least four of Hopper’s ...
Edward Hopper’s watercolor of a Cape Elizabeth landmark fetches $1 million
Sotheby's sold Hopper's 1927 painting 'Spurwink Church' to an unidentified buyer. The meeting house, the oldest public ...
The New York Times4y
Early Works by Edward Hopper Found to Be Copies of Other Artists
In researching his doctorate on Edward Hopper, for the storied Courtauld Institute in London, Mr. Shadwick has discovered that three of the great American’s earliest oil paintings, from the ...
PBS1y
What’s missing from Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” painting?
This is certainly one reason that Edward Hopper’s painting, “Nighthawks,” remains popular. Completed in 1942, the painting features individuals occupying a quiet diner as they receive ...