Newsworthy
Elliot shares pastel skills during Hopper House retrospective (Journal News 8/19/08)
Sweeping landscapes, the sweep of this daughter's hair, the curly looks of a caftan-wearing artist - John Elliot has done them all in oil pastels. Read More ....
Hopper's Paintings Come to Life for an Evening (Journal News 7/19/08)
What are they looking at? What are they thinking? How did they get there? It's the mystery of Edward Hopper's paintings, and Los Angeles playwright, set designer and film director Susan Emshwiller decided to shed light on those mysteries in "Brush Strokes." Read more ....
Landmark is "Pulsating with Artistic Life" (Journal News 7/11/08)
The Edward Hopper House Art Center is a living, breathing organism of the arts.
From the outside, where a statue display and jazz concert series take place, to the inside where paintings
hang on the walls, it's easy to see the house is alive with imagination. But up the stairwell in Edward
Hopper's 1949 painting "Stairway" is where you will find where the imagination was born. Read more...
Hopper House asks Jazz Fans to Help with Costs (Journal News 7/9/08)
Hopper House's free Music in the Garden concert series has become a summer tradition in the village, with residents parking their blankets on the lawn Thursday evenings to hear live music. Read more ....
Rockland's Artists and Arts Supporters get their Gold Star (Arts Happenings July-August 2008)
The Edward Hopper House Art Center is the proud recipient of the 2008 County Executive Arts Award for Arts Organization presented by the Arts Concil of Rockland on April 24, 2008. Read more...
A Hudson River Town Sheds Light on Edward Hopper's Art
~ by Sheila Elliot in the October 2007 issue of FineArt Connoisseur
"Hopper's story began af few blocks north of Nyack's central intersection at Main Street and Broadway. In 1858, his prosperous maternal grandfather, John DeWint Smith, built a modest house at what is now 82 North Broadway; it faces second Avenue which leads down to the river."
My Visit to Nyack - A Sense of Place
~ by Naoko Kubota, staff writer for Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) in the Fall 2007 Newsletter of the Historical Society of the Nyacks.
"First I visited Hopper House Art Center. It was so thrilling to sit on the staircase and see the view through the door which Hopper himself had seen. I was impressed by the fact that the House is supported by tremendous community effort." Read more ....
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