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'Must-See' Hopper Exhibition Opens Soon, Catalogue Available for Pre-Order Now

Story posted June 16, 2011

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition Edward Hopper's Maine opens July 15 and already is generating anticipatory buzz — a "must-see travel destination" proclaims one preview.

A fully illustrated scholarly catalogue — with insightful essays by renowned Hopper scholar Carol Troyen, actor/writer/collector Steve Martin, Whitney Museum of American Art curator Carter Foster, poet-critic Vincent Katz, Bowdoin College Museum of Art Director Kevin Salatino, and Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow Diana Tuite — can be pre-ordered here.

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