Edward Hopper
MUSEUM OF FlNEARTS
May6-August 19
Curated by Judith Barter, Franklin Kelly, and Carol Troyen
Tate Modern mounted a major Edward Hopper show only a few years hack, hut it never made it to the States. The current retrospective's co-organizing museums (the MFA and the exhibition's two travel venues) evidently feel the time is right for US audiences to view this most popular-and familiar-of national icons. Will the survey be a box office-friendly replay of the Whitney's comprehensive 1980 Hopper survey or an altogether fresh take? Indeed, might Hopper here emerge as the crypto-modernist he was, his "realism" cloaking a canny grasp ot Romanticism, Precisionism, and even Surrealism? All the key images must be included, given the show's boasting of approximately one hundred paintings, watercolors, and prints-so the burden of proof looks set to fall on the catalogue by Troyen and four other scholars. Travels to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Sept. 16, 2007-Jan. 21. 20OS; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 16-May 11, 2008. -David Anfam
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