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Edward Hopper was born in 1882 in Nyack, New York. After completing high school he studied illustration at the Correspondence School of Illustrating and subsequently attended the New York School of Art, both in New York City. In 1906 he was employed as an illustrator for an advertising agency, and in the fall of that year he visited Paris for the first time.
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At the age of twenty-five he participated in his first exhibition, a group show in New York City, and thereafter he exhibited regularly in both group and solo exhibitions. In 1913, at the famous Armory Show in New York City, he sold his first canvas. The same year he moved to Washington Square, to premises where he remained until his death in 1967. In 1924 he married the painter Josephine Nivison and became sufficiently successful to give up commercial ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Edward Hopper retrospective.(Brief Article)