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

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CAM Auditorium, 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA
$85 for members, $125 for non-members, $65 for students
Lunch and exhibition entrance to Edward Hopper & Cape Ann is covered
Registration is required.

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.

This in-depth examination of how Cape Ann shaped Edward Hopper’s career features lectures with Elliot Bostwick Davis, Guest Curator of Edward Hopper & Cape Ann and 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. In addition. two panel discussions will be offered with notable scholars including Oliver Barker, CAM Director; Adam Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art; Virginia Mecklenburg, Smithsonian American Art Museum; Kathleen A Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Joachim Homann, Harvard Art Museums.

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).

Symposium Schedule

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 Adam Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art

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.