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New York
Architecture Images-Greenwich Village 1-3 Washington Square North |
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1-3 Washington Square North. |
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1833 |
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Greek Revival |
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Flemish Bond brickwork. |
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Built by Sailor's Snug
Harbor, now owned by NYU. Home of Edward and Jo Hopper. Perhaps no building in New York is more closely associated with a single artist that this 1830s row house. From 1913 till his death in May 1967, the Hoppers lived in a studio on the top floor. Chosen for its low rent and the artist’s belief that his hero, the Philadelphia artist, Thomas Eakins had painted here, Hopper and his wife leased rooms having neither heat nor private bath. They decorated their rooms simply, with pieces of early American furniture. Hopper divided his time between New York and Provincetown. As the years passed and his reputation grew, he moved to a larger, but still bathroom-less, space in the building. He exhibited his work at Edith Halpert’s Downtwown Gallery on 13th Street, as well as at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at the Museum of Modern Art. In his later years, when Hopper’s fame was at its height, NYU became the building’s landlord, raising the artist’s rent and threatening eviction. Many Village residents came to the couple’s defense, including the Ashcan school painter, John Sloan.
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