
Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio, and Street is the catalogue to the 2011 exhibition curated by Phillip Prodger of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, for the National Portrait Gallery, London. With essays by both Phillip Prodger and the National Portrait Gallery curator Terence Pepper, the authors explain how the recent rediscovery of Hoppé's work now demonstrates how Hoppé was, and is now once more, regarded as a pivotal figure in Edwardian art. Hoppé’s strikingly Modernist portraits of society figures and important personalities from the worlds of literature, politics and the arts include George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, A.A. Milne, T.S. Eliot, Margot Fonteyn, Vaslav Nijinsky, Albert Einstein, and members of the royal family. His studio portraits are complemented by Hoppé's sensitive and affectionally humorous depictions of everyday British people ranging from street musicians and stage performers to bus drivers and postmen, all of which reflected the realities of day-to-day life between the wars.
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Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio and Street, curated by Phillip Prodger (National Portrait Gallery, London, February 17 - May 30, 2011)
Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio and Street, essays by Phillip Prodger and Terence Pepper (National Portrait Gallery, London, 2011)
Burlington Magazine, Lady Marina Vaizey, April 27, 2011
Bloomberg Online, Martin Gayford, April 17, 2011
Past/Present/Future/London, Chloe Hayward, March 30, 2011
The Spectator, Nicola McCartney, March 10, 2011
Royal Photographic Society Journal (book essay excerpt), March 2011
Dancing Times, March 2011
Metro London, Zena Alkayat, March 2011
Financial Times, Francis Hodgson, February 25, 2011
History Today, Sheila Corr, February 18, 2011
Time Out London, Nina Kaplan, February 17, 2011
Artdaily, February 17, 2011
Culture 24, Laura Burgess, February 17, 2011
Who's Jack, February 17, 2011
L'ItaloEuropeo, David Franchi, February 16, 2011
Small Aperture, Daniela Bowker, February 16, 2011
AnOther Mag, Lucia Davies, February 16, 2011
BBC Radio 4, John Wilson, February 16, 2011
BBC Radio 3, Anne McElvoy, February 15, 2011
The Telegraph, Lucy Davies, February 15, 2011
The Observer, Laura Cumming, February 13, 2011
The Guardian, Maev Kennedy, October 07, 2010
The Telegraph, October 07, 2010
The Independent, Robert Dex, October 07, 2010
Wales Online, Daniel Fisher, October 08, 2010
























