![]() They also painted side by side, so it was hard for people not to compare her work to his and see her as an individual artist.” Edward and Josephine Hopper had a turbulent marriage. “She was almost his manager, so that colored view of her. “She and Edward were such a unit,” McCabe tells The Post. It didn’t help that she handled Hopper’s press, kept track of his sales and posed for his paintings. ![]() When she bequeathed a trove of her and her husband’s work to the Whitney upon her death in 1968, the museum kept most of his creations and dumped her stuff - “loaning” pieces out to hospitals and office buildings and even relegating some to the trash. But while Edward’s star rose, hers fell - hard. Josephine and Edward got hitched that same year, 1924, embarking on a tumultuous marriage. ![]() But, as Katie McCabe, author of “More Than a Muse: Creative Partnerships That Sold Talented Women Short,” out Tuesday, explains, it would happen at Josephine’s expense. That exhibit would change art history, launching Hopper’s career and ushering in a new kind of American realism. Nivison wanted to help him out, so she convinced the Brooklyn curators to include his work in her show, too. He was toiling in commercial magazines and feeling pretty depressed. Hopper, meanwhile, hadn’t sold a painting in over a decade. And she had just been invited to show six watercolors at the Brooklyn Museum - along with such names as Georgia O’Keeffe and John Singer Sargent. Prestigious New York City galleries regularly featured her work. Her paintings had hung next to those of Picasso, Modigliani and Man Ray. Josephine Nivison was an accomplished artist by the time she started dating Edward Hopper in 1923. Picasso gets the attention, but his 'muse' Gilot deserves credit too Residents of California city demand removal of 30-year-old 'phallic' statueīody of work: Aboriginal artist seeks body of British person to 'sacrifice for past sins' Here's the flower that empowers your zodiac sign, as per an astrologer
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