Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why the painting “Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper is secretly incredibly fascinating. (Here’s a direct link to see the painting: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111628/nighthawks)
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources and for this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on Bluesky
- @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
SELECTED ARTWORKS BY EDWARD HOPPER:
- Nighthawks (1942)
- Soir Bleu (1914)
- New York Corner (1913)
- The Mansard Roof (1923)
- House By The Railroad (1925)
- Chop Suey (1929)
- Early Sunday Morning (1930)
- Compartment C, Car 293 (1938)
- New York Movie (1939)
- Gas (1940)
- Western Motel (1957)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist by Gail Levin
- Edward Hopper: The Complete Prints by Gail Levin
- Edward Hopper (published by Museum Of Fine Arts Boston), edited by Ellen E. Roberts, featuring writing by Judith A. Barter
- Nighthawks as Hope: A Curator Muses on Edward Hopper and Crisis (Art Institute Of Chicago)
- Jo Hopper, Woman in the Sun (The Paris Review)
- Tracing an Erased Artist in Multiple Archives: Josephine Verstille Nivison Hopper (The Brooklyn Rail)
- Google Maps listing for the address of Edward Hopper’s former apartment (3 Washington Square North, New York NY)
- Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’ Dominates ‘Art Everywhere’ Voting (ArtNet.com)
- press release about “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” by Gottfried Helnwein
- 10 Artists Influenced by Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks (Mental Floss)
- From Nighthawks to the shadows of film noir (The Guardian)
- Hopper: The Supreme American Realist of the 20th-Century (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Heilbrunn Timeline Of Art History: The Ashcan School (The Metropolitan Museum Of Art)
- Reexamining Edward Hopper—and the Woman Behind His Career (Smithsonian SmartNews)
- The Hoppers (Provincetown Art Association And Museum)
- Link to the “Weiner Dog Art” book by Gary Larson
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