Charles Crocker
Charles Crocker 1822-88, American railroad builder, b. Troy, N.Y. In 1836 he moved with his family to Marshall co., Ind., where he later set up a small foundry. He joined a party to seek gold in California in 1849. He and a brother opened (1852) a store to sell supplies to miners, and as it prospered they started others, later consolidating them in Sacramento. There Crocker met Mark Hopkins , Hopkins's partner, Collis P. Huntington , and Leland Stanford , and with them he organized (1861) the Central Pacific RR Company of California. Crocker undertook responsibility for actual construction, completing it in 1869. In 1871, Crocker sold out his interest to his partners, but in the Panic of 1873 he returned as director and vice president.
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Among De Koonings, Calders and a whole floor of Edward Hoppers, Louise Nicholson celebrates the Whitney Museum's 75 years--and catches gossip about redevelopment.(NEW YORK NEWS)(Alexander Calder)(Willem de Kooning)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...at pop art, minimalism and the Hopper estate, to find works that have...museum has a special relationship with Edward Hopper. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney gave...later, his widow, Josephine Nivison Hopper, bequeathed his artistic estate...
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Edward Hopper's themes of isolation, loneliness come out in Art Institute exhibit
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 3/13/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...This is, obviously, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks (1942...a surprising number of Hopper's greatest paintings...found in modern art. In Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography...her husband's shadow; Edward Hopper was a dour introvert...
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Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 6/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Whitney Museum last fall, Edward Hopper has achieved...of Gail Levin's Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography...to-day account of Hoppers long life and career...her research after the Hoppers were both dead, as indeed do most biographers. Hopper's loyal viewers were...virtually ...
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Brooding genius; Edward Hopper's art and the doubt behind it.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 9/16/2007; 700+ words
; ...A recurring motif for the artist Edward Hopper appears on many of the floors he...young boy in the sixth grade named Edward Hopper who had already become 6 feet...artistic streak, and so encouraged Edward to draw and paint. He would take...
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Classroom use of the art print.(Edward Hopper's painting called People in the Sun)(Brief biography)
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 6/1/2008; 700+ words
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Edward Hopper (American; 1882-1967). People...Washington, D.C. THINGS TO KNOW Edward Hopper was born in 1882 in a small...her work. * Elementary. Most of Edward Hopper's paintings that depict outdoor...
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Loneliness and light. (Edward Hopper, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY)
Magazine article from: Newsweek; 8/7/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...MALCOLM JONES Jr. HABITUALLY CYNICAL, EDWARD Hopper took a dim view of the posthumous...Levin will publish her long-awaited Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography...accompanied by a mixed-media show, "Edward Hopper and the American Imagination...
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Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.(All Levels: Looking and Learning)(Biography)
Magazine article from: School Arts; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; About the Artist Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York in 1882...store where he occasionally worked. Edward drew constantly, and by the age of...artist. At the urging of his parents, Hopper initially studied to be a commercial...
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Gloucester's Inspiration for Artist Edward Hopper
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 7/30/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Gloucester's Inspiration for Artist Edward Hopper Host: MELISSA BLOCK Time 20:00...host: The iconic American artist Edward Hopper is best known for his shadowy...with the curator. ANDREA SHEA: Edward Hopper apparently didn't care much...
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HOPPER'S MOODY EYE WITH THE HELP OF THE DIARIES OF THE ARTIST'S WIFE, GAIL LEVIN TRACES THE LIFE BEHIND THE STARK IMAGES OF EDWARD HOPPER.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 1/21/1996; 700+ words
; Byline: PEGGY DEANS EARLE EDWARD HOPPER An Intimate Biography GAIL LEVIN Alfred...are mute witnesses to the scene. Edward Hopper's 1942 masterpiece painting...s fascinating and comprehensive Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, most...
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Solitude's Shore; For Edward Hopper, summers at the Cape meant capturing the tranquillity of seaside cottages, fisherman shacks and a light like no other
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/29/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...found her home, a place Edward Hopper had painted, she told...sound." And there are Hopper's nautical paintings...house in "Psycho." Hopper "didn't know any film...said, "The paintings of Edward Hopper are always the...
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Edward Hopper
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Edward Hopper A pioneer in picturing the 20th-century American scene, Edward Hopper (1882-1967) was a realist whose...yet filled with deep emotional content. Edward Hopper was born on July 22, 1882, in...
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Hopper, Edward
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Hopper, Edward (1882–1967). American painter...this set the seal on his reputation). Hopper's distinctive style was formed by the...poignancy that rises above the specific. Hopper himself enjoyed solitude (although he...
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Hopper, Grace
Book article from: Mathematics
...influence on COBOL's development, Hopper was deemed the "grandmother of COBOL." Later Honors Hopper retired from the Navy in 1966...use flexible thinking. Grace Hopper retired in 1986 as the oldest...William Arthur Atkins with Philip Edward Koth Bibliography Billings...
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Red Grooms
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Revisited (1980) is a colored drawing based on a well-known painting by Edward Hopper, a major American artist. Unlike Hopper's brooding work, Grooms's version shows Hopper in the scene looking lonely and out-of-place in the very ordinary...
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Painting
Book article from: American Decades
...drama of the pioneer-spirited western family. Hopper and Burchfield Edward Hopper (1882—1967) and Charles Burchfield...painters who developed independently of art movements. Hopper's formal, spare compositions of urban or rural...
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