Wichita Art Museum
In the 1920s, painter Edward Hopper studied the interiors of New York restaurants and focused on the young women clientele who frequented them. With his 1929 painting “Chop Suey” and related paintings, Hopper found one of his most potent subjects in the American city–the modern American woman.
What Hopper created in these early New York paintings was a look at a social dynamic that was reshaping the urban scene–the influx of young women into the modern work-a-day world. Wichita Art Museum’s 1949 Hopper painting “Conference at Night” continues the social dynamic and psychological intrigue.
Patricia Junker is the Ann M. Barwick Curator of American Art at the Seattle Art Museum, and this talk developed from Junker’s 2008 exhibition and book on the topic.
The Howard E. Wooden Lecture series is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum.
Originally recorded the evening of Thursday, November 12, 2015 in the Howard E. Wooden Lecture Hall at the Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kansas.
Visit the Wichita Art Museum online at https://www.wichitaartmuseum.org/.
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i stopped watching this video part way because i cannot see the example images the speaker was using. All i can see if the speaker reading from her notes. Why post a video? Post a audio only file instead – a total waste of time
J adore Edwards hopper, merci