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Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Western Motel, 1957, American. Oil on canvas. 77.8x 128.3 cm. Courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery (http://artgallery.yale.edu/), New Haven, Connecticut; bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, 1961.18.32. Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery/Art Resource, New York, New York.

Forty-two-year-old bachelor artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) married Josephine "Jo" Nivison in 1924, 18 years after they first met in American realist painter Robert Henri's art class. In the interval between their meeting and their wedding, while Hopper illustrated for the commercial art world, Jo worked as a teacher in the New York Public School system, traveled in Europe, and even taught art classes. As part of the war effort, in 1918 (after her mother's death from breast cancer) the newly liberated Jo departed for France; she worked in hospitals and on the USS Sierra. She later served at Walter Reed General Hospital. A struggling artist . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Janet M. Torpy, MD