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Subject(s)

• Hopper, Edward 1882-1967—Correspondence [Browse]
• Hilsdale, Alta 1884-1948—Correspondence [Browse]
• Painters—United States—Correspondence [Browse]

Editor

• Colleary, Elizabeth Thompson [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Personal correspondence [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• personal correspondence [Browse]
• letters (correspondence) [Browse]

Summary note

"Edward Hopper (1882-1967), long recognized as the premier 20th-century American realist painter, was famously introverted and reclusive. He rarely spoke about his personal life, and his close friends were few and love interests fewer. Until now, there have been only two known romantic pursuits prior to Hopper's marriage to Josephine Nivison: a brief relationship in Paris with an English girl and another spanning several years with an older French woman in New York in 1914. The discovery of fifty-eight previously unknown letters and one note from Alta Hilsdale (1884-1948) to Hopper brings to light a previously unknown, possibly one-sided romantic relationship. Hilsdale, who was from Minnesota and spent time in New York and Paris, sent letters to Hopper at various home and studio addresses over the course of ten years. Reverend Arthayer Sanborn, a close friend of Edward and Josephine Hopper, discovered the letters in Hopper's childhood home in Nyack, New York, after the artist's death. Fewer than ten people have had the opportunity to read these letters, and they are published in their entirety for the first time in My Dear Mr. Hopper"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: Alta Hilsdale Letters
• June-July 1904
• From Minnesota to Nyack, N.Y.
• November 1906-August 1907
• From Paris to Paris
• 1908-9
• From Minnesota, New York, and Paris to New York
• March-August 1909
• From Paris and Minnesota to Paris and New York
• May-December 1910
• From Paris to Paris and Nyack, N.Y.
• May 1911-Summer 1913
• From Paris, New York, and Minnesota to New York
• September 1913-October 1914.

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ISBN

• 9780300181487 (hardback)
• 0300181485 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2012041735

OCLC

813392822

RCP

H - S

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