Josephine Hopper

Portrait by Robert Henri

Josephine Verstille Nivison "Jo" Hopper (born in 1883 in Manhattan) was an American artist and the manager for her husband Edward Hopper.

Quotes

• You know, men are not grateful creatures. [Interviewer: You think not?] No, I don't think so. It's women that are grateful. [I: Really?] And who care -- who want it, who care about it. It seems to me that women are the ones that show the gratitude for the little things, and big, and who remember. Over the years, they remember.
  • American Masters: The Hoppers

• It is a woman looking out to see if the weather is good enough to hang out her wash.
  • remarking on her husband's painting 'Cape Cod morning', 1950
• Did I say that? You're making it Norman Rockwell. From my point of view she's just looking out the window, just looking out the window.
  • Edward Hopper's reply
  • In: Gold for Gold, Time, (Josephine Hopper and Edward Hopper together interviewed) 30 May 1955, p. 72

• My husband has lived in this famous old building on Washington Square, built in the 1830s, for more than 40 years; and marrying me did not uproot him. I just joined him there. Living there requires Spartan endurance ... but the rewards are great indeed to the artist. There is a fine daylight from its skylights, large white marble fireplaces, and two big studios.
  • - Jo-V-Hopper.pdf Woman's Art Journal