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Some of the artists’ early work will leave you breathless. Master of loneliness and urban scenes, Edward Hopper created this pen and ink drawing titled Little Boy Looking at the Sea when he was 9 years old. Little Hopper drew it on the back of the transcript. The child in the picture, with his back to the viewer, his hands behind his back, and his feet inches from the lapping waves, looks both young and old. Judging by his size, he appears to be just past toddler age. But his poses are deep, and he seems completely playless, like many of the sober, solitary adults in Hopper’s later work. And like the little boy in his sketches, Hopper spent most of his youth by the water—his childhood room overlooked the Hudson River, and he often wandered the banks with a sketchbook to catch the Construction and rigging of ships docked there.
It is said that Hopper was born into a middle-class family in Nyack, New York, and started painting at the age of five. His parents were very supportive and encouraging, giving him a blackboard at the age of 7 and a drawing instruction book at the age of 10. Hopper himself even marked his childhood paint box with the phrase “will be an artist.”
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