BOWDOIN COLLEGE TO PRESENT EDWARD HOPPER EXHIBITION

IN JULY THE BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF FINE ART IN BRUNSWICK, MAINE WILL BE PRESENTING A STUNNING EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND WATERCOLOURS CREATED BY FAMED AMERICAN REALIST EDWARD HOPPER DURING HIS MANY SOJOURNS IN MAINE. HOPPER SPENT SEVERAL SUMMERS IN MAINE BEGINNING IN 1914 AND PAINTED NUMEROUS ICONIC SCENES OF THE COASTAL STATE, INCLUDING THE LIGHTHOUSE AT TWO LIGHTS, IN CAPE ELIZABETH, FROM 1929. FOR HOPPER SUCH WEATHER BEATEN LANDMARKS 'SYMBOLIZED THE SOLITARY INDIVIDUAL STOICALLY FACING THE ONSLAUGHT OF CHANGE IN AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY.' ORGANIZED WITH THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART IN NEW YORK, WHICH HAS HOPPER EXHIBITION RUNNING THROUGH APRIL, THE BOWDOIN EXHIBITION WILL INCLUDE OVER 80 WORKS BY HOPPER FROM PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS, SOME NEVER BEFORE SHOWN IN EXHIBITION.