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Edward Hopper's Portrayal of Women in Art

Edward Hopper’s Portrayal of Women in Art


It can certainly be argued that most artists are trying to express something through their work, either to an audience or themselves. When a single theme continuously appears in one’s catalog, it suggests that this subject is an important one to the artist. The most convincing pieces of evidence supporting the importance of women in Edward Hopper’s paintings are, how frequently they appear, the way in which they are shown, or not shown and the dominant role they take in the painting. The fact that his wife, Jo Nivison, stood as the model for many of these works certainly suggests the fact that Hopper’s art and his life were not two completely separate issues.
Vivien Green Fryd’s essay on Edward Hopper’s Girlie Show gives many examples of other pieces by the artist, which ...

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