WALKER ART CENTER PRESENTS HOPPER DRAWING: A PAINTERS PROCESS, THE FIRST IN-DEPTH SHOW TO FOCUS ON THE DRAWINGS AND CREATIVE PROCESS OF THE ICONIC 20th CENTURY ARTIST, IN MARCH 2014

MINNEAPOLIS, December 2 2013The Walker Art Center presents Hopper Drawing: A Painters Process, the first major exhibition to focus on the drawings and creative process of the iconic American artist Edward Hopper (18821967). While many exhibitions and publications have investigated Hoppers work and artistic practice, this touring exhibitionfor the first timeilluminates the centrality of drawing to Hoppers work and allows a fresh look at his landmark paintings. The exhibition was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and will be on view March 13 through June 27, 2014 in the Walkers Target and Friedman Galleries.

Hopper Drawing: A Painters Process features more than two hundred works by the artist, including drawings, watercolors, and paintings, and is the result of in-depth curatorial research into the more than 2,500 works on paper by Hopper in the Whitneys collection, many of which have never been seen. The works on view will span the artists career, and will include 22 of his best-known paintingsincluding Office at Night (1940) from the Walkers collectionwith their preparatory drawings and studies. In doing so, the exhibition illuminates how the artist transformed ordinary subjectsa city street, an office space, a house, a bedroominto enduring images that are among the most celebrated in American art.

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