Artist Birthdays, July 22: EDWARD HOPPER, ALEXANDER CALDER

EDWARD HOPPER (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967)

• Nationality: American
• Field: Painting, printmaking
• Art Movement: American Realism
• ARTiFact: House by the Railroad (1925) is said to have inspired Alfred Hitchcock, who used it as the model for the Bates Hotel in Psycho.
• Artist Quote: “The man’s the work. Something doesn’t come out of nothing.”
• Important Artwork (shown below): Nighthawks, 1942.

ALEXANDER CALDER (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976)

• Nationality: American
• Field: Sculpture, painting
• Art Movement: Surrealism, Kinetic sculpture
• ARTiFact: Famous for inventing the mobile, a term coined by fellow artist Marcel Duchamp in 1931.
• Artist Quote: “To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.”
• Important Artwork (shown below): Red Lily Pads (Nénuphars rouges), 1956.

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