Lee Glazer, Senior Curator at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD, has acquired two paintings by Philip Koch for the museum’s permanent collection. Both works were included in the museum’s recent exhibition Light: Paintings by Philip Koch.
Each of the pieces was drawn on location in Edward Hopper’s Truro, MA studio. Koch has been granted 17 residencies to stay and work in the studio of the famous American realist artist since 1983. Koch explains “Hopper in many ways was the key influence on me as an artist. Early in my career it was seeing his work that inspired me to change course from painting abstractions to working as a realist.”
The pastel Edward Hopper’s Truro Studio Bedroom looks into the studio’s bedroom from small kitchen. The drawing celebrates the light flooding into the room from the adjoining room where Hopper made his paintings.
Collection Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
Hopper Bedroom III was drawn with Koch’s easel set up in bedroom and looks into Hopper’s large painting room. The studio’s prominent windows admitted the brilliant light for which Cape Cod is well known.
Collection Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
