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| USA | 67 |
| Germany | 8 |
| Spain | 5 |
| Japan | 3 |
| United Kingdom | 3 |
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Addison Gallery of American Art, USA |
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The National Gallery of Art, USA |
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Whitney Museum of American Art, USA |
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Self-Portrait 1925-30, Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Photograph © Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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22.7.1882 Born in Nyack, New York (US)
Edward Hopper is considered to be one of America's greatest modern painters.
son of Garret Henry Hopper and Elizabeth Griffiths Smith Hopper, initially attends a private school and then the local public school, Nyack High School
1899 - 1900 With his parents’ support, studies illustration at the Correspondence School of Illustrating
1900 - 1906 New York School of Art, studies illustration with Arthur Keller and Frank Vincent DuMond, then painting under Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Painted [Solitary Figure in a Theatre]
1905 Employed as an illustrator by C. C. Phillips & Company, a New York advertising agency
1906 Visits Paris, painting city streets in an Impressionist manner and watercolour caricatures
1907 Participates in his first exhibition, organised by fifteen of Robert Henri’s students in the old Harmonie Club building, 43-45 West Forty-second Street, New York
1909 - 1910 Visits Paris twice, painting out-of-doors along the Seine frequently
1913 During winter exhibits in the International Exhibition, the Armory Show and sold his first canvas there, Sailing 1911. Moves to top-floor studio at 3 Washington Square North, New York, where he lived until his death
1915 - 1924 Learns to etch and concentrates on printmaking, producing an outstanding array of etchings and drypoints. Including: American Landscape 1920
1920 Solo exhibition of paintings, principally of his Paris years at the Whitney Studio Club, New York. None of the paintings sell, and at thirty-seven, still dependent on commercial illustration to earn his living, Hopper begins to doubt whether he will achieve success as an artist
1923 Begins to paint with watercolours, one is bought by the Brooklyn Museum. Awarded prizes for etching in exhibitions in Chicago and Los Angeles. Exhibits at National Arts Club, New York, in the Humorist’s Exhibition
1924 Marries the painter, Josephine Verstille Nivison. Approaches Frank Rehn who offers him his first solo exhibition at a commercial gallery; all eleven paintings sell and five more are sold from the back room, enabling Hopper to give up commercial illustration work and encouraging him to paint in oils again
1925 Exhibits at the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia, they purchase an oil painting. Visits Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he paints seven watercolours
1927 Paints Automat. With sale of Two on the Aisle for 1,500 dollars buys first automobile, a two-year-old Dodge. He is able to paint in remote places in both Ogunquit and Gloucester
1929 Included in MoMA’s second exhibition, Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans
1930 Paints Early Sunday Morning. During the summer, Hopper and his wife rent “Bird Cage Cottage” in South Truro, Massachusetts on Cape Cod
1933 At age of fifty-one, receives his first large-scale solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exhibits twenty-five oils, thirty-seven watercolours and eleven prints
1934 In July Hopper and his wife move into the studio/house that he has designed in South Truro (where they spent most of their successive summers)
1935 Paints House at Dusk. Awarded Temple Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the First Purchase Prize in watercolour, Worchester Art
1940 Paints Office at Night
1942 Paints Nighthawks, purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago, and is an overnight success, becoming signature work for Hopper and an iconic American image
1945 Awarded Logan Art Institute Medal and Honorarium, The Art Institute of Chicago
1950 Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, touring to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Awarded honorary degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, by the Art Institute of Chicago. Paints Cape Cod Morning
1952 Hopper was one of four artists chosen by the American Federation of Arts to represent the United States in the Venice Biennale. Paints Morning Sun
1953 Awarded Honorary degree, Doctor of Letters, Rutgers University. The Metropolitan Museum, about to open new American wing, purchases Office in a Small City
1955 Gold Medal for Painting presented by the National Institute of Arts and Letters in the name of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
1956 Awarded Huntington Hartford Foundation fellowship and stays at foundation’s headquarters in Pacific Palisades, California for six months
1959 Solo exhibition at Currier Gallery of Art, tours to Rhode Island School of Design in December and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
1960 Receives Art in America Annual Award. Paints Second Story Sunlight
1962 October-November, The Complete Graphic Work of Edward Hopper, runs at Philadelphia Museum of Art
1963 Receives award from the St Botolph Club, Boston. Retrospective Exhibition at the Arizona Art Gallery, in South Truro. Paints Sun in an Empty Room
1964 May, protracted illness keeps Hopper from painting. Awarded M. V. Khonstamn Prize for Painting, The Art Institute of Chicago. September-November, major Retrospective Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which travels to the Art Institute of Chicago and is well received by critics
1965 Retrospective tours to the Detroit Institute of Arts and the City Art Museum of St Louis. Awarded honorary degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, Philadelphia College of Art. July 16, death of Hopper’s sister Marion in Nyack, New York. Paints final work Two Comedians
1966 Awarded Edward MacDowell Medal
1967 Edward Hopper dies in his studio at 3 Washington Square North
1968 Jo Hopper dies on 6 March
15.5.1967 Died in (US)
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Public exhibitions 96
until 24.1.2010
until 17.1.2010
until 29.11.
Solo shows 26
2009
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| Edward Hopper & Company - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2008
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| Edward Hopper's Women - Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
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| Western Motel. Edward Hopper and Contemporary Art - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| Edward Hopper: Paper to Paint - Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN |
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| Edward Hopper - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
2007
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| Edward Hopper - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Edward Hopper - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
2005
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| Edward Hopper in Four Acts - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
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| At the window - etchings by Edward Hopper - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
2004
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| Edward Hopper - Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Edward Hopper - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| Edward Hopper - les années parisiennes, 1906-1910 - Musée d’Art Américain Giverny, Giverny |
2003
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| Edward Hopper - The Paris Years - Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV |
2002
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| Edward Hopper and Urban Realism - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
2000
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| Edward Hopper - Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima |
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| Edward Hopper - Bunkamura, Tokyo |
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| Edward Hopper - Printmaker - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1993
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| Edward Hopper Paintings - Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City, NY |
1992
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| Edward Hopper und die Fotografie - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen |
1989
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| Edward Hopper - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
1983
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| Edward Hopper: Development of an American Artist - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
1981
1972
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| Edward Hopper Bequest - The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX |
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| Edward Hopper - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
1971
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| Edward Hopper - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
1933
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| Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Group shows 67
2009
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| Coming of Age. American Art, 1850s to 1950s - Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City |
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| La Sombra - Fundación Caja Madrid, Madrid |
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| Different Realities - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA |
2008
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| Modernidad americana. Obras de la Corcoran Gallery of Art - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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| Painting in the United States: 1943-1949 - Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA |
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| Art in the Age of Steam - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (England) |
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| The American Scene - British Museum, London (England) |
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| Masters of Watercolor: Andrew Wyeth and His Contemporaries - Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC |
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| From Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper: American Watercolor Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum - Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH |
2007
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| Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s - Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX |
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| Auspicious Vision - Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY |
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| American Perspectives - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection - Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY |
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| Olga Hirshhorn Collects: Selections from the Permanent Collection - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
2006
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| Bilderwahl 2006 - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
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| Gefrorene Augenblicke - Von Vallotton bis Hubbard/Birchler - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
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| Drawing on Hopper - Gregory Crewdson/Edward Hopper - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
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| To Know the Dark - American Artists' Visions of Night - Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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| Across America - Wichita Art Museum WAM, Wichita, KS |
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| Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75 - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Encouraging American Genius - Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY |
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| Painting Summer in New England - Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA |
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| Reinventing America - Three Modern Views on Paper - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
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| American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950 - Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA |
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| Picturing America: Selections from Whitney Museum of American Art - Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe |
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| Eye on the Collection - Toward Abstraction - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
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| Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Self Portrait Renaissance to Contemporary - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
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| Melancholie - Genie und Wahnsinn in der Kunst - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| A Celebration of New Works - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM |
2005
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| Eye on the Collection - Toward Abstraction - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
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| Mimesis. Realismos Modernos 1918-1945 - Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Celebración del arte - Medio siglo de la Fundación Juan March - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
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| Encouraging American Genius - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| From Albright to Zinnias - American Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
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| De Homer à Hopper - dessins et aquarelles du Princeton University Art Museum - Musée d’Art Américain Giverny, Giverny |
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| Town and Country: Modern Life in America - Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA |
2004
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| West to Wesselmann - Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ |
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| A Sense of Place - Selections from the Tacoma Art Museum Collection - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
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| Through American Eyes: Two Centuries of American Art from the Huntington Museum of Art - Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Printed light - photographic vision and the modern print - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT |
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| Between The Lines - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Art, Artists, and the Addison - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
2003
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| Printmaking Methods - Etching - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| Small and Everlasting - ACA Galleries, New York City, NY |
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| The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings & Sculp - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| American Tableaux - Many Voices, Many Stories - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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| Edward Hopper and Urban Realism - Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT |
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| Beyond Native Shores: A Widening View of American Art, 1850 to 1975 - Adelson Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY |
2002
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| From Homer to Hopper - Masters of American Watercolor - Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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| Modern Metropolis - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY |
2001
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| A century of drawing - works on paper from Degas to LeWitt - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Naked since 1950 - L&M Arts, New York City, NY |
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| Explorations - Paintings, Drawings, and Prints in the Addison Collection - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
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| Der kühle Blick - Realismus der zwanziger Jahre - Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich |
2000
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| Views of the City - 1910s – 1940s - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM |
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| How you look at it - Fotografien und Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts - Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Face to Face - Artists & Their Work - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| Twentieth-Century American art - the Ebsworth Collection - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1999
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| The American Century - Art & Culture 1900-2000 Part I - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection fr. National Museum - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
1997
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| The Big City: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
1996
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| L'œil du collectionneur - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1987
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| The Window in Twentieth-Century Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1981
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| America 20er-40er Jahre Amerikanischer Realismus - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1968
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| Realismus in der Malerei der 20 er Jahre - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
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USA
| | Aaron Galleries, Chicago, IL
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| | Adelson Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY
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| | James Graham & Sons, New York City, NY
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| | Elrick-Manley Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Adams Davidson Galleries, Washington, DC
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Public collections 47
France
Iran
| | Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
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Spain
| | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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USA
| | Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
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| | Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
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| | MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
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| | Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH
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| | Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
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| | Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
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| | Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
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| | The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
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| | Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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| | Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
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| | The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
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| | Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
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| | Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
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| | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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| | Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
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| | The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
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| | The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
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| | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA
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| | Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
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| | Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
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| | Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
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| | Hillstrom Museum of Art, Saint Peter, MN
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| | The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
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| | The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
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| | Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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| | Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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| | Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
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| | Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
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| | UAMA - The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
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| | Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
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| | Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
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| | The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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| | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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| | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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| | Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
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| | Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
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| | Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
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| | The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
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| | The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
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