Curt Hoppe

From 1997 – 2002, Hoppe enjoyed an ideal situation painting views of the Hamptons, one of New York’s most scenic and affluent summer retreats. These photos, the basis for the paintings, not only capture the beauty of the Hamptons, they also reveal the artist’s fascinating working process.

We know the hyper-realist painter Curt Hoppe from his Downtown Portraits series. This newsletter focuses on an earlier phase of Hoppe’s career, the five years from 1997 to 2002 when his subject was the Hamptons.

Expanding our inventory of vintage posters by top artists from the last decades of the 20th Century is an ongoing process here at Gallery 98. We are currently photographing and processing a large collection of posters. As a taste of what is to come, here are three favorites. Each is…

The success of Pop Art in the 1960s opened the way for other new styles of representational art. “Photorealism” was a term applied to a group of artists whose fastidious paintings strove to imitate photography. Like pop artists, photorealists favored imagery drawn from everyday life and the American vernacular. OK Harris Gallery and the …