- Artist: Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967).
- Typographical Style of Signature: Surveyor Slab.
- Signature Style: In high school Hopper aspired to become a naval architect.
- Location of Signature: Lower left.
- Source of Signature: “Portrait of Orleans” 1950, oil on canvas.
- Institution: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco.
- Student of: William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri.
- Influenced by: Edgar Degas, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Édouard Manet.
- Influenced: Willem de Kooning, Jim Dine, Terrence Malick, Mark Rothko, and Wim Wenders.
- Note: Mark Rothko’s “Composition I” is a paraphrase of Hopper’s “Chop Suey”
This is the first post in our Signature Works series. The images come from photographs we have taken of the works in their natural habitat. In this series we will present the unique brands that artists have created over the years with their signature and categorize the typographical style, location, and source of the signature. We also will make notes on each artist’s historical significance, their influences, and whom their work has influenced and inspired. Each image features a specimen signature and also operates as a painting-within-a-painting. Some images function as microcosms of the original painting, others as unique and complete works.