You may have heard that Josephine “Jo” Nivison Hopper ... In 1906, Henri painted a famous life-size oil portrait of Jo entitled The Art Student, which shows Jo clutching her paint brushes ...

“This we think of as Jo's space,” Davis said with a smile. A few Nivison watercolors of Cape Ann hang on the blue room's walls, along with three stunning portraits. Her teacher Robert Henri ...

On the other hand, we know his wife, who was born Josephine Nivison ... Hopper.” “Jo Painting,” one of the exhibit’s highlights, is the only actual portrait Hopper made of her.

[A self-portrait of Josephine Nivison Hopper is shown on screen. Melancholy instrumentals continue. Next, the following works of Hopper appear on screen: Jo Sketching in the Truro House circa 1934 ...

In Hopper’s work, portraits of America emerge in a variety ... Hopper visits Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he meets fellow artist Jo Nivison, who encourages him to paint more than a dozen ...

When New Yorker Josephine (Jo) Nivison married Edward Hopper in 1924, she was 41, and had worked as a teacher, actor, and had a high old time at various New England art colonies. Jo was an ...

The trope of the neglected female artist may have completed its journey from urgent historical necessity to cliché last fall when the Cape Ann Museum attempted to reposition Josephine Nivison Hopper .

This influence was further cemented when in 1924, the year Hopper and Jo Nivison wed ... though he never considered his paintings to be portraits of her, using her as a stand-in for “any ...