Elliot Bostwick Davis, author of Edward Hopper & Cape Ann, in conversation with Oliver Barker, Director of the Cape Ann Museum

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Join us at Hastings House for evening of art. Elliot Bostwick Davis, author of the stunning new book, EDWARD HOPPER & CAPE ANN, will be in conversation with Oliver Barker, Director of the Cape Ann Museum. The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books will be for sale at the event. The event is free to attend. RSVPs are not required but are greatly appreciated. You can do so here. 

EDWARD HOPPER & CAPE ANN tells the largely ignored but significant origin story of Edward Hopper’s years in and around Gloucester, Massachusetts—a period and place that imbued Hopper’s paintings with a clarity and purpose that had eluded his earlier work.

Accompanying a major retrospective at the Cape Ann Museum, including an unprecedented loan of twenty-eight works from the Whitney Museum of American Art, this highly readable and beautifully illustrated volume reveals in great depth the lesser-known story about the influence of a young painter, Josephine Nivison, who became not only Hopper’s wife but also the most trusted force underlying his artistic confidence. Here she is recast as principal producer of Hopper’s distinctive style and his “brand” visionary from the time of their courtship until his death in 1967.

Hosted by the Book Shop of Beverly Farms at Hastings House, 14 Oak Street, Beverly, MA.