NEW YORK, NY.- As American artists rebelled against the academic
art and aristocratic portraiture that predominated at the turn
of the twentieth century, they began looking to modern life for
their subject matter. One of central figures in this dramatic
shift was Edward Hopper, whose work is exhibited in relation to
his most important contemporaries in Modern Life: Edward Hopper
and His Time, opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on
October 28, 2010. Placing Hopper beside such artists as Robert
Henri, William Glackens, John Sloan, George Ault, Guy Pène du
Bois, George Bellows, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Charles
Demuth, Ralston Crawford, Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, Charles
Burchfield, Ben Shahn, Lisette Model, Thomas Hart Benton, and
Reginald Marsh, the show traces the development of realism in
American art in the first half of the twentieth century. The
exhibition, organized by Whitney curator Barbara Haskell and
senior curatorial assistant Sasha Nicholas, and shown previously
in different f