Cape Ann & the Making of Edward Hopper – A symposium at the Cape Ann Museum

The Cape Ann Museum is honored to present a day-long symposium of today’s top scholars on Edward Hopper as one of the culminating programs for Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape.

Lunch will be provided and the symposium will end with a visit to the blockbuster exhibition Edward Hopper & Cape Ann. The day-long symposium kicks off on Friday, September 29 at 6:00 pm with a keynote lecture from Erika Doss, art historian and author of American Art of the 20th – 21st Centuries (2017), and Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion (2022).

Friday, September, 29, 2023

Edward Hopper’s American Things, 6:00 p.m. with Erika Doss, art historian and author of American Art of the 20th – 21st Centuries (2017), and Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion (2022)

Saturday, September 30, 2023 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.

Edward Hopper and Jo N. Hopper on Cape Ann: “Beauty in the Commonplaceness”, 10:00 a.m. with Elliot Bostwick Davis, Guest Curator, Edward Hopper & Cape Ann

Managing an Artist’s Legacy within Museums: Edward Hopper & Fitz Henry Lane, 11:00 a.m. with Oliver Barker, CAM Director and Guests

Afternoon break, lunch provided, 12:00 P.M.

The Hoppers, Bernstein, and Meyerowitz, 1:00 p.m. with Gail Levin, Distinguished Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women’s Studies at The Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York.

American Watercolors: A Panel Discussion, 2:00 p.m. with Virginia Mecklenberg, Smithsonian American Art Museum; Kathleen A Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Joachim Homann, Harvard Art Museums

Closing Panel, 3:00 p.m.

Visit the Edward Hopper & Cape Ann exhibition, 4:00 p.m.