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Edward Hopper’s lifelong enthusiasm for the sea developed when he was a boy in Nyack, New York, then a prosperous Hudson River port with an active shipyard. There he enjoyed sketching caricatures of immigrants. Later he pursued his artistic interest in New York, studying under Kenneth Hayes Miller and Robert Henri. Hopper documented the bustling urban and industrial changes of the early twentieth century like his contemporaries, but he is best known for his scenes of city life, which capture the haunting loneliness of empty streets and the solitude of urban dwellers. Although at first glance Ground Swell appears to have nothing to do with these subjects, it is closely tied to the primary themes of isolation and need for escape so integral to his representation of modern American life. . . .
- Dorothy Moss, formerly Assistant Curator of American Art Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online :: Also see the Ground Swell nightlight available in our Shop
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