Edward Hopper and the American Hotel demonstrates the extent to which Hopper found cultural significance in the most commonplace sites. At the core of this focused exhibition are Hopper's celebrated paintings and watercolors of and from hotels, motels, boarding houses, and tourist homes (single-family dwellings hosting temporary tenants, often seasonally, like present-day Air BNBs). He was at times a detached voyeur, but was at least as frequently an engaged participant in car culture, landscape tourism, popular psychology, and retail and leisure activities. Along with Newfields' celebrated painting Hotel Lobby, the show includes views of interiors, and from the windows, at tourist homes at which Hopper and his wife Jo stayed on their travels throughout New England and the Southeast. Similarly, several other drawings and etchings will be on view.
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MA-251861-OMS-22].