View from the Street:
Edward Hopper: Drawings of New York and Cape Cod
Enrique Atalaya: Views of Paris
Exhibition on view from May 5 – 30, 2025
Jill Newhouse Gallery, 2nd floor
Special neighborhood Open House with 17 participating galleries on May 7 , 5-8pm
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Edward Hopper is recognized as one of the greatest American artists of the 20th century. He was a prolific draughtsman, yet most of his drawings were kept for his personal use and used as reference in the creation of paintings detailing his personal vision of American life at mid-century.
Born in Madrid in 1869, Enrique Atalaya began his career as a painter specializing in academic painting and traditional genre scenes. In 1880, he moved to Paris and exhibited at the Expostion Universelle in 1889, but Atalaya found his real talent when he began to specialize in small format works, becoming a member of the Société des peintres enlumineurs et miniaturis. Angelo Mariani was a French chemist and entrepreneur, best known for his 1863 invention, Vin  Mariani, a coca leaf infused Bordeaux wine which was one of the world’s best known and best advertised products, endorsed by popes, queens, presidents and actors. Vin Mariani became the inspiration and the eventual precursor to Coca-Cola. Atalaya met Angelo Mariani, a wealthy entrepreneur in Paris in 1895, and among many projects that were inspired by their relationship, one of the loveliest was this set of miniature watercolors Atalaya made in 1904.
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Gallery hours Tuesday-Friday, 10-5 pm
Organized by partner Jill Newhouse Gallery
Image: Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Study for Portrait of Orleans, Cape Cod, 1950. Pencil on paper.
