Two day affair September 29 – Sept 30, 2023!
The symposium features major American museum present and former curators and directors: Elliot Bostwick Davis, Kathleen A. Foster, Joachim Homann, Gail Levin, Virginia Mecklenberg, and Adam Weinberg. Several have compiled and published more than one renowned Hopper survey! On this weekend in September they’ll be focused on Edward Hopper in Gloucester!
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Cape Ann Museum’s Hoppper symposium schedule
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Edward Hopper’s American Things, 6:00 p.m
with Erika Doss, art historian and author of American Art of the 20th – 21st Centuries (2017), and Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion (2022)SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2023, 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
Edward Hopper and Jo N. Hopper on Cape Ann: “Beauty in the Commonplaceness”, 10:00 a.m. with Elliot Bostwick Davis, Guest Curator, Edward Hopper & Cape Ann
Managing an Artist’s Legacy within Museums: Edward Hopper & Fitz Henry Lane, 11:00 a.m. with Oliver Barker, CAM Director and Guests *Adam Weinberg
AFTERNOON BREAK, LUNCH PROVIDED, 12:00 P.M.
The Hoppers, Bernstein, and Meyerowitz, 1:00 p.m. with Gail Levin, Distinguished Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women’s Studies at The Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York
American Watercolors: A Panel Discussion, 2:00 p.m. with Virginia Mecklenberg, Smithsonian American Art Museum; Kathleen A Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Joachim Homann, Harvard Art Museums
Closing Panel, 3:00 p.m.
Visit the Edward Hopper & Cape Ann exhibition, 4:00 p.m.
*Adam Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director Whitney Museum of American Art from 2003- 2023. Several of the experts will have deep Massachusetts connections and experience. Before helming the Whitney, Weinberg was a long time curator here and abroad and Dir of the Addison at Phillips Academy in Andover 1999-2003.
Harvard is featuring a large American watercolor show Into the Light focused on drawings from its repository curated by Joachim Homann who is a featured panelist in Gloucester’s Edward Hopper symposium. Naturally art inspired by Gloucester make the list; Jane Peterson, Winslow Homer, Stuart Davis and more. The Truro Edward Hopper works are a great opportunity to compare drawings from both Capes in state at the same time.
May 20, 2023–August 13, 2023.
Good Morning Gloucester 