American art is prominently displayed throughout Chicago this winter with two exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago featuring two classic-American painters, Edward Hopper and Winslow Homer.
Edward Hopper is one of the most enduring and popular American painters of the 20th century. His paintings have been celebrated as a part of the very grain and texture of the American experience. This exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of Hopper's work to be seen in American museums outside of New York in a quarter century. Surveying the artist’s 70-year career, Edward Hopper's watercolors and oil paintings and concentrate on his most productive years—from the mid-1920s to the mid-1950s—when he created his most enduring images such as the Art Institute’s iconic Nighthawks (pictured).
American painter Winslow Homer created some of the most breathtaking and influential images in the history of watercolor. Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light will provide an intimate look at how one of America’s most celebrated painters discovered for himself—over a period of three decades—the secrets of the watercolor medium. Twenty-five spectacular Homer watercolors in the Art Institute’s collection have been carefully analyzed using the latest conservation technologies. The works and the revealing associated research will be displayed in the context of more than 100 watercolors, drawings, and oil paintings that explore the artist’s most important subjects and sites and his interest in color and light.
Both exhibitions run February 16 – May 10, 2008. To learn more, click here.