New York Pavements
Artist
Edward Hopper
(American, 1882 - 1967)
CultureAmerican
Date1924-1925
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions24 3/4 × 29 3/4 in. (62.9 × 75.6 cm)
Overall, Frame: 33 1/4 × 38 3/8 × 3 1/2 in. (84.5 × 97.5 × 8.9 cm)
Overall, Frame: 33 1/4 × 38 3/8 × 3 1/2 in. (84.5 × 97.5 × 8.9 cm)
InscribedSigned lower right: Edward Hopper
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number83.591
Collections
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 221
Label TextEdward Hopper American, 1882–1967 New York Pavements, 1924 Oil on canvas With her uniform’s blue veil billowing out behind her, a nanny pushes a baby carriage through the streets of New York. Looking down from an upper window, we join her as inhabitants of the metropolis and its rows of apartment buildings, sprawling outward and upward in this era of progress and prosperity. The unusual cropping of this scene, with the figures just entering our view, suggests the fragmented and lonely character of this anonymous urban world, a frequent theme in Edward Hopper’s work. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 83.591 ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Lawrence Fleischman, acquired from the artist; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Goldstone, by 1965; Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Spiller, by 1971; E.V. Thaw and Company, 1976; Mr. Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1976; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., to The Chrysler Museum, 1983. Exhibition History"The New Society of Artists - Seventh Exhibition," Anderson Galleries, New York, N.Y., January 1926. "Edward Hopper Retrospective," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., February 11 - March 26, 1950. Also traveled to Boston and Detroit. (Exh. cat. no. 15) "Collection in Progress: Selections from the Lawrence and Barbara Fleischman Collection of American Art," The Detroit Institute of Arts, Mich., September 29 - October 30, 1955. (Exh. cat. no. 40) "Edward Hopper," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., September 29 - November 29, 1964. (Exh. cat. no. 8) "The Herbert A. Goldstone Collection of American Art," The Brooklyn Museum, N.Y., June 15 - September 12, 1965. (Exh. cat. no. 45) "The Artist's New York," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., October 2 - November 5, 1967. "Twentieth Century American Art," The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Calif., February 23 - March 24, 1968. (Exh. cat. no. 31) "Edward Hopper," Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa., September 24 - October 31, 1971. Also traveled to William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine. (Exh. cat. no. 90) "Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., September 16, 1980 - January 25, 1981. (Exh. cat. plate 237) "From Veneziano to Pollock," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., May 18 - June 24, 1984. (Exh. cat. p. 26-28) "Edward Hopper: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art," Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum/Tokyo Metropolitan Culture Foundation, Japan, October 6 - December 12, 1990. (Exh. cat. no. 65) "Edward Hopper Retrospective," Tate Modern, London, England, May 27 - September 5, 2004; Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany, October 9, 2004 - January 9, 2005. "Edward Hopper," Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, June 15 - September 16, 2012; Grand Palais, Paris, France, Octoboer 5, 2012 - February 3, 2013. “Edward Hopper’s New York,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, October 20, 2022 – March 5, 2023. Published ReferencesLloyd Goodrich, editor, _Edward Hopper Retrospective Exhibition_, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., 1950, 54, no. 50. Foreword by E.T. Richardson, _Collection in Progress: Selections from the Lawrence and Barbara Fleischman Collection of American Art_, exh. cat., The Detroit Institute of Arts, Mich., 1955, 34-35. Lloyd Goodrich, _Edward Hopper_, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., 1964, 64. Preface by Axelbon Saldern, _The Herbert A. Goldstone Collection of American Art_, exh. cat., The Brooklyn Museum, N.Y., 1965, 50-51. _Twentieth Century American Art_, exh. cat., Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Calif., 1968, no. 31, cover. _Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Oils, Watercolors, Etchings_, exh. cat., The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa., 1971, no. 90. Lloyd Goodrich, _Edward Hopper_ (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1971), 52-53, 142. Thomas W. Styron, "New American Paintings," _Chrysler Museum Bulletin_ 5 (July 1976): cover, 2. Gail Levin, _Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist_, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., 1981, 39, 58, plate 237. Lloyd Goodrich, "Six Who Knew Hopper," _Art Journal_ 41 (June 1981): 27, pl. 1. Anne Coffin Hanson, "Edward Hopper, American Meaning and French Craft," _Art Journal_ 41 (June 1981): 146, fig. 11. Seymour Chwast and Steven Heller, editors, _The Art of New York_ (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983), 172. Thomas W. Sokolowski and Thomas W. Styron, _From Veneziano to Pollock: Masterworks Donated to The Chrysler Museum by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr._, exh. cat., The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., 1984, 26-28. David W. Steadman, "Ten Masterworks!" _Chrysler Museum Bulletin_ 14 (June 1984): cover and inside page. "La Chronique des Arts: Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1984," _Gazette des Beaux-Arts Supplément_ VI Période, Tome CV, no. 1394 (March 1985): 26-75. Stephen B. Safran and Monty L. Kary, "Edward Hopper: The Artistic Expression of the Unconscious Wish for Reunion with the Mother," _The Arts in Psychotherapy_ 13 (1986): 309, fig. 1. Robert Hobbs, _Edward Hopper_, exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., 1987, 130-131, 134. Roland H. Wigenstein, "Edward Hopper 1882-1967: quadri di architettura," _Domus_ No. 703 (March 1989): 80. _Edward Hopper: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art_, exh. cat., Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 1990, 97, no. 65. Jefferson C. Harrison, _The Chrysler Museum Handbook of the European and American Collections: Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings_ (Norfolk: The Chrysler Museum, 1991), 178-179, plate 135. John Russell, "Time Rescues a Collector's Reputation," _The New York Times_ (August 11, 1991): H27-28. Ivo Kranzfelder, _Edward Hopper, 1882-1967_ (Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1994), 125. Gail Levin, _Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné_ I-III (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), I: 7, 66; III: 159. Justin Spring, _The Essential Edward Hopper_ (New York: The Wonderland Press, Harry N. Abrams, 1998), 63-68. Ivo Kranzfelder, _Edward Hopper (1882--1967): Vision of Reality_ (Köln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH, 1999), 125. Sheena Wagstaff, ed., _Edward Hopper_, exh. cat., Tate Modern, London, England, 2004, 40, 42, 126-127. English edition. Sheena Wagstaff, ed., _Edward Hopper_, exh. cat., Tate Modern, London and Museum Ludwig, Köln, 2004, 40, 43, 126-127, S. 126, 0-243. German edition. Avis Berman, _Edward Hopper's New York_ (San Francisco: Pomegranate Inc., 2005), 65. Martha N. Hagood and Jefferson C. Harrison, _American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings_ (Norfolk, Va.: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005), 166-167, no. 104. Jeff Harrison, _Collecting with Vision: Treasures From the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (London: D. Giles Ltd., 2007), 56 det. & 72, fig. 80. Susan Goldman Rubin, _Edward Hopper: Painter of Light and Shadow_ (New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007), 13. Kim Conaty, _Edward Hopper's New York_, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Yale University Press, 2022, 149, plate 81.
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