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  Edward Hopper
Hopper was able to repeat his trip to Europe in 1909 and 1910.
Hopper was a frequent movie-goer, and there is often a cinematic quality in his work.
His contemporary the painter Charles Burchfield wrote: 'With Hopper the whole fabric of his art seems to be interwoven with his personal character and manner of living.' When the link between the outer world he observed and the inner world of feeling and fantasy broke, Hopper found he was unable to create.
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 Hopper
Hopper was born on July 22, 1882, in Nyack, New York, and studied illustration in New York City at a commercial art school from 1899 to 1900.
Although one of Hopper's paintings was exhibited in the famous Armory Show of 1913 in New York City, his work excited little interest, and he was obliged to work principally as a commercial illustrator for the next decade.
Although Hopper's work was outside the mainstream of mid-20th-century abstraction, his simplified schematic style was one of the influences on the later representational revival and on pop art.
www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Hopper.htm   (401 words)

  
 Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
Hopper was the eldest of three children, followed by sister Mary, 3 years younger and brother Roger, 5 years younger.
While Hopper was in high school, her father had hardening of the arteries and both his legs were amputated.
In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II and Mark III.
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 hopper chemical storage bulk storage tanks silo storage silo steel aluminum silo
When flowing downwards in the hopper, the bulk solid is compressed in the horizontal direction so that the walls of the hopper carry a larger part of the weight of the bulk solid and, hence, the vertical stress in the lower part of the hopper is clearly smaller than after filling.
The batcher vent is ducted to the exhaust of the weigh hopper.
A complete silo which consists of a cylindrical shell, a conical roof hopper and a conical discharge hopper is briefly examined, with the aim of exploring the applicability of the established cylinder model in the elastic buckling analysis of silo structures.
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 The Cincinnati Post - Hopper sentenced on gun counts
Gale Hopper said she still dearly loves her husband, but understands now that he is a deeply disturbed man who was brutally raped himself as a child.
Hopper said, her husband agreed to plead guilty to the two federal gun charges before U.S. District Judge David Bunning last month to spare his son - now 19 - yet another ordeal stemming from the cases.
Hopper will likely next be in court in Campbell County, where he has already been found competent to stand trial and pleaded not guilty to a rape charge in connection with a 2004 attack at a Subway restaurant in Cold Spring.
news.cincypost.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071108/NEWS02/711080374   (657 words)

  
 Edward Hopper: Cubist in Disguise? - artnet Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hopper is a kind of Cubist, treating buildings as abstract structures with a life of their own, and often more uncannily alive than the people who use them.
Hopper registers their effect on the people who live and work in them: his buildings raise the pressing question of when a house becomes a home -- an empathic place, more humanly meaningful than an abstract castle.
For Hopper, the complete separation of the real and the abstract, and the depreciation of realistic representation and the elevation of pure abstraction as the be-all and end-all of art -- its transcendental fundament, so to speak -- was not the advance in artistic wisdom the modernists claimed it to be.
www.artnet.com /magazineus/features/kuspit/kuspit11-22-06.asp   (1993 words)

  
 Art | Turner, Hopper together | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/11/2007
Hopper is traditionally categorized as a realist; well, he is and he isn't.
Hopper's oils and watercolors announce an intense interest in architectural form, a formalist preoccupation with visual organization and problem-solving.
Hopper isn't painting the world as it is, but as he would prefer it to be.
www.philly.com /inquirer/entertainment/20071111_Art___Turner__Hopper_together.html   (1183 words)

  
 Inside job: Hopper's grand plan - Tennis - Sport - smh.com.au
Hopper would piece together her forehand, study it and pick out the tiny flaws in her motion.
Hopper's "special girl" was destined for grand slam brilliance and this was the only way to keep the dream alive.
Hopper was allowed out of the cell he shared with other prisoners to sit in privacy in a separate room at Langi Kal Kal to watch the tape.
www.smh.com.au /news/tennis/inside-job-hoppers-grand-plan/2006/11/24/1164341399252.html   (2309 words)

  
 Grace Murray Hopper
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was born in New York City on December 9, 1906, to Walter Fletcher Murray and Mary Campbell Horne Murray.
During her work with Mark II, Hopper was credited with coining the term "bug" in reference to a glitch in the machinery.
Hopper taught herself how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in octal, a number system with base eight that uses digits 0 through 7, in order to facilitate the process.
www.agnesscott.edu /LRIDDLE/WOMEN/hopper.htm   (1523 words)

  
 Grace Murray Hopper: Pioneer Computer Scientist
Hopper had come from a family with military traditions, thus it was not surprising to anyone when she resigned her Vassar post to join the Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) in December 1943.
Hopper plunged in and learned to program the machine, putting together a 500-page Manual of Operations for the Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator in which she outlined the fundamental operating principles of computing machines.
Hopper was appointed to the Harvard faculty as a research fellow, and in 1949 she joined the newly formed Eckert-Mauchly Corporation.
www.sdsc.edu /ScienceWomen/hopper.html   (496 words)

  
 CGFA- Bio: Edward Hopper
Hopper was born on July 22, 1882, in Nyack, New York, and studied illustration in New York City at a commercial art school from 1899 to 1900.
Although one of Hopper's paintings was exhibited in the famous Armory Show of 1913 in New York City, his work excited little interest, and he was obliged to work principally as a commercial illustrator for the next decade.
Hopper continued to work in this style for the rest of his life, refining and purifying it but never abandoning its basic principles.
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 WebMuseum: Hopper, Edward
Hopper exhibited at the Armoury Show in 1913, but from then until 1923 he abandoned painting, earning his living by commercial illustration.
Hopper soon gained a widespread reputation as the artist who gave visual form to the loneliness and boredom of life in the big city.
Edward Hopper has something of the lonely gravity peculiar to Thomas Eakins, a courageous fidelity to life as he feels it to be.
www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/auth/hopper   (433 words)

  
 Material Conical Hoppers   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This unique, method of forming material conical hoppers uses our proprietary deep draw/spin process to build material thickness in the flange area while at the same time enhance the cosmetic appearance of the part.
TMS material conical hoppers are used for material flow/conveying in the plastics, pharmaceutical, dairy, and home-brewing industries among others.
For example, the TMS24612 is a 24” diameter hopper (ID of straight wall) with 6” straight wall made from 12 gauge parent material.
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 Tate Modern | Past Exhibitions | Edward Hopper
Hopper's enduring popularity stems from his ability to stage scenes from everyday life in a way which also addresses universal concerns.
Hopper believed that the artist's goal was to reveal the truth about the everyday and the interior life of ordinary people.
Another major theme of Hopper's work is the use of American venacular architecture, often cropped in a way to increase psychological tension and heighten the feeling of isolation.
www.tate.org.uk /modern/exhibitions/hopper/about.htm   (252 words)

  
 Grace Hopper
Hopper was not one to hold a single job for a long time.
The Navy and Hopper were not apart for very long for, in August 1967, she was recalled to active duty in the Navy.
Hopper was awarded her doctorate by Yale University for a thesis New Types of Irreducibility Criteria which was supervised by Oystein Ore.
www.thocp.net /biographies/hopper_grace.html   (1903 words)

  
 SAAM :: Have a Question? Find an Answer
One of the country's most honored artists, Hopper was internationally acclaimed in his lifetime and was elected to both the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1945) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1955).
Hopper was associated with the Ash Can artists early in his career; he studied with Robert Henri at the New York School of Art from 1900 to 1906 and greatly admired John Sloan's etchings of New York City.
Hopper was born in Nyack, New York, to a businessman and a housewife who encouraged his early drawing talent.
americanart.si.edu /search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=2297&skip=1&CFID=2299079&CFTOKEN=50478433   (559 words)

  
 Grace Murray Hopper
Admiral Hopper became the third person to program the Mark I. She received the Naval Ordnance Development Award for her pioneering applications programming success on the Mark I, Mark II, and Mark III computers.
Admiral Hopper and her team extended this improvement on binary code with the development of her first compiler, the A-O. The A-O series of compilers translated symbolic mathematical code into machine code, and allowed the specification of call numbers assigned to the collected programming routines stored on magnetic tape.
Admiral Hopper believed that the major obstacle to computers in non-scientific and business applications was the dearth of programmers for these far from user-friendly new machines.
www.cs.yale.edu /homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html   (1433 words)

  
 NPR : Nighthawks, Present at the Creation
Hopper was already a success by the time he painted Nighthawks, having had his first one-man show in January of 1920 at the Whitney Studio Club in Greenwich Village.
Hopper's wife, Josephine, was a former actress, and a painter.
Hopper's acclaim continued to grow during his lifetime, but instead of trading his fame for influence in the New York social scene, the artist apparently preferred the privacy of his studio, or his house on Cape Cod.
www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/patc/nighthawks   (1002 words)

  
 Edward Hopper Online
Edward Hopper was the quintessential realist painter of twentieth-century America.
His images have become part of the very grain and texture of American experience, and even today, thirty years after his death, it is all but impossible to see America without some refraction through them.
The Poetry of Solitude: A Tribute to Edward Hopper
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/hopper_edward.html   (695 words)

  
 Inventor Grace Murray Hopper Biography
Grace Murray Hopper, American Navy officer, mathematician, and pioneer in data processing, born in New York City and educated at Vassar College and at Yale University.
Well known for her work in the 1950s and 1960s at the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, later part of Sperry Rand, Hopper was credited with devising the first compiler (1952), a program that translates instructions for a computer from English to machine language.
Hopper retired from the navy in 1986 and served as a senior consultant with Digital Equipment Corporation.
www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/hopper.htm   (723 words)

  
 Dennis Hopper Photos - Dennis Hopper News - Dennis Hopper Information
Hopper wrote and directed another film that was released in 1971 called The Last Movie that was a box office failure and derailed his career for years.
Hopper had long been an alcoholic and drug abuser and it was at this point his addiction began to dominate his life.
Hopper won wide acclaim as the director of the film for his improvisational methods and stop action photography.
www.tv.com /person/9730/summary.html   (579 words)

  
 Grasshoppers: Their Biology, Identification and Management: Software Support: HOPPER 4.0
Hopper 4.0 can be used to help determine the best course of action when dealing with grasshopper outbreaks on rangeland.
HOPPER and its associated files and documentation are distributed without any expressed or implied warranty of any kind.  The author, supplier or distributor shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with furnishing, performance, use or misuse of these materials.
Hopper does not incorporate the use of Reduced Agent Area Treatments that reduce application rates, costs, and environmental concerns, while maintaining effectiveness (see RAATs Brochure).
www.sidney.ars.usda.gov /grasshopper/Support/Hopper.htm   (465 words)

  
 EDWARD HOPPER 1882
Hopper's fascination with the abstract shapes of Shoshone Cliffs, Wy. recalls the many oil paintings of Monhegan Island's rocky shore that he had produced in Maine during the late 1910s.
The scene is the closest Hopper ever came to expressing sympathy with the masses.
In her husband's record book, Josephine Hopper noted that the grey steps were dark and that the terrace was sooty; she identified the glum, lonely figure of a man with red hair as a Pole, picking an immigrant ethnic working-class group of that region.
www.butlerart.com /pc_book/pages/edward_hopper_1882.htm   (740 words)

  
 Delaware Art Museum
The strong verticals and horizontals of the architecture and sidewalk, based on preparatory drawings of a particular building Hopper later altered in the finished painting, give the illusion of space horizontally and vertically extended beyond the picture plane.
A solitary female figure in a clinging dress, based on preparatory drawings of the artist’s wife, Jo, creates a counterpoint to the compositional, almost abstract, starkness of the background architecture and the play of light and cast shadows.
Hopper’s artistic manipulation of the scene to convey a mood of eerie loneliness within the formally balanced backdrop of an impersonal city block is most readily evident in the lack of eye pupils and the incorrectly formed shadow of the female figure.
www.delart.org /view/collections/early_20th_hopper.html   (385 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Edward Hopper: Books: Lloyd Goodrich   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He sees Hopper's work as a response to largely economic stressthe isolation of people in a world of cars, trains, motels, and their loss of a sense of belonging.
Hopper is quite capable of showing a female figure as strong and desirable, as in "Office at Night" or "Summer Evening" I sympathize more with the figures who have no one to pose for; they seem more honest somehow.
Hopper is certainly one of the most affective artists of the twentieth century and all times.
www.amazon.com /Edward-Hopper-Lloyd-Goodrich/dp/0810981149   (1735 words)

  
 Edward Hopper
Hopper was born in New York in 1882 and died there in 1967.He married the painter Josephine Verstille Nivision in 1924, they lived in New York and in their summer house in South Truro, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod.
Hopper had always been a very talented artist, but in 1924," Hopper was given a one-person show at the Frank K.M. Rehn Gallery and all of the art in the gallery was sold," and that's when Edward Hopper became known throughout the world.
Hopper is the first artist to recognize that visual images in the twentieth century have become so common that they have also become expendable.He plays on the way individual images become
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 The Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access
The Ashcan School influenced Hopper’s style, though he tended to depict not the chaos of urban living but the sense of urban isolation.
Hopper explained that Nighthawks was inspired by "a restaurant on New York’s Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet." The diner has since been destroyed, but the image, with its carefully constructed composition and lack of narrative, has a timeless quality that transcends any particular location.
Hopper’s understanding of the expressive possibilities of light playing upon the simplified shapes gives the painting its beauty.
www.artic.edu /artaccess/AA_Modern/pages/MOD_7.shtml   (298 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/wearehopper
Hopper began touring a lot : from festivals to small clubs to larger venues.
As their energetic performances began drawing more and more followers, Hopper eventually earned the reputation of an amazing live band, carving their niche in the French rock scene.
In november 2005, Hopper locked themselves in the Bear Creek studio near Seattle (Foo Fighters, Pretty girls make grave...) to record their new album, engineered by Ryan Hadlock (Blonde Redhead, Black Heart Procession, The Gossip...).
www.myspace.com /wearehopper   (1043 words)

  
 Hopper, South Dakota SD, township profile (Aurora County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Hopper was $15,281, compared with $21,587 nationally.
5% of Hopper residents age 25 and older have a bachelor's or advanced college degree.
The average commute time for Hopper workers is 14 minutes, compared with 26 minutes nationwide.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=277455   (443 words)

  
 Rear Admiral Grace Hopper   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Throughout her long and illustrious service to the Navy and the nation, Grace Hopper consistently demonstrated leadership, creativity, and technical competence of the highest order.
One of her greatest attributes was the ability to instruct and persuade others about the computer's potential for improving the way people and institutions processed and exploited information.
In 1986, four years before her death, President Ronald Reagan awarded Hopper the prestigious National Medal of Technology at a ceremony in the White House.
www.history.navy.mil /bios/hopper.htm   (398 words)

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