Lectures on Edward Hopper and American Poets

February 26, 2008

Gail Levin in conversation with Adam Wsiolkowski of the Academy of Fine Arts

Gail Levin, Professor of 20th-Century American Art and John van Sickle, a Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature lectured in Krakow and Katowice on February 25 and 26. Professor Gail Levin holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University and is currently teaching Art History, American Studies, and Women Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of City University of New York. Her research centers on American modernism, specifically the works of Edward Hopper and Marsden Hartley. Gail Levin, an author of major studies of Edward Hopper's work and a curator of many exhibitions that explored his development and cultural context, has also written the artist’s biography based on his unpublished letters and diaries.
Professor Levin spoke on "Edward Hopper, Metaphor and Meaning: A Biographer's View of His Art and the Life that Inspired It" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.  She also spoke at Club Bunkier Sztuki on “Becoming Judy Chicago: An Artist's Response to American Culture”.
Professor John van Sickle holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and is currently affiliated with the Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center at CUNY. He specializes in classical and comparative literature and is the author of numerous books on classical Roman and Greek literature and its influence on the works of American writers. He lectured at the Institute of British and American Literature at the University of Silesia and at the Institute of English Philology at Jagiellonian University.  Professor van Sickle spoke about American poems inspired by Edward Hopper's paintings and on American poets the artist admired: Robert Frost and Ralph Waldo Emerson.