''Two Comedians'' is a 1966
oil on canvas
Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or copper for several centuries. ...
painting by the American artist
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realism painter and printmaker. He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for his skill in depicting modern American life and landscapes.
Born in Nyack, New York, to a ...
. It was his final painting, executed one year before his death in 1967.
In the painting, Hopper depicted himself and his wife,
Josephine Nivison
Josephine "Jo" Verstille Hopper (née Nivison; March 18, 1883 – March 6, 1968) was an American painter and the wife of painter Edward Hopper. She studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, and won the Huntington Hartford Foundation f ...
, on stage in
pantomime
Pantomime (; informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment, generally combining gender-crossing actors and topical humour with a story more or less based on a well-known fairy tale, fable or ...
costume taking a final bow.
The work was once owned by
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Honorific nicknames in popular music, Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the Time 100: The Most I ...
. It is now in the permanent collection of the
Bruce Museum
The Bruce Museum (colloquially referred to as The Bruce or The New Bruce) is an art, science and natural history museum located in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The Bruce's main building sits on a hill in a downtown park, and its tower (not open to t ...
in
Greenwich, Connecticut
Greenwich ( ) is a New England town, town in southwestern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it had a population of 63,518. It is the largest town on Gold Coast (Connecticut), Connectic ...
.
See also
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List of works by Edward Hopper
The following is an incomplete list of works by American painter Edward Hopper.
References
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Edward Hopper, works
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1966 paintings
Paintings by Edward Hopper