Hopper Drawings (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

Edward Hopper's drawings are easy to duplicate and in so doing you learn a good deal about shading and characterization. Very good book.

Content good, but photos of art are gray and washed out, not good contrast. So the reproduction quality of the art is sadly lacking.

Not worth the price.

I own a lot of Dover art series books. They are excellent books for beginning artists in that they show how the old masters did their early works using different media. Much can be learned from the Dover art books in the use of subject, form, and shading. The Hopper Drawings is one of my favorite Dover art books. Most of the drawings in this book have been made using the Conte crayon. I prefer the Conte crayon over charcoal. It is very sleek, clean, and smooth. The drawings show how masterful Hopper is with the Conte crayon and much can learned by studying his drawings.

Dover and the Whitney Museum should be ashamed of this book. Printed on the cheapest paper without any consideration for the image quality of the Hopper drawings, the book falls flat as an inspiration for students and is a disappointment to those of us who admire and appreciate the quality and spontaneity of his line. Gone are the vivid contrast and sharpness of line. A waste of money!

Decent book, but this slender paperback arrived with several large creases through the middle as though someone had punched it, which makes it difficult to page through.

Not worth it it's so flimsy and like a coloring book

This budget priced book contains many lovely and enlightening examples of Hopper's drawings including some studies for some of his well known paintings. This slim volume contains no text at all, not even an introduction, with the single exception of a short blurb on the back cover. The quality of the paper reflects the price of the book but Hopper fans may still find this a valuable addition to their art library.

Upon arrival I was somewhat disappointed with this book. This book is primarily a visual catalogue and does not contain much information on the background of the drawings. The image reproduction of Hoppers drawings are poor and lacking contrast. I haven't seen his drawings in the flesh but I'm sure that they look better than they appear in this book.