― 60 ―れる青のグラデーション、柱が画面を縦断する大胆な構図は、どちらも浮世絵に通ずるものである。頭上に飾られる日本の提灯はまさに《青の宵》と浮世絵の強い結びつきを物語っていると考えられる。注⑴ Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: Intimate Biography (New York: Rizzoli, 2007), 98.⑵ “Exhibition of Paintings,” at the MacDowell Club, New York in 1915. Whitney Museum of American Art Archives, Edward and Josephine Hopper Research Collection (以後HRC), series 2, folder 2.322 (1908-1920).⑶ “Exhibit at MacDowell,” New York American, February 15, 1915; “Strong Men at the MacDowell,” Evening Mail, February 18, 1915. HRC, series 2, folder 2.248, Soir Bleu (1914), oil.⑷ 先述の同時代批評二点以外に確認できる一次資料は画面左端の女衒を描いた習作だけである。HRC, series 3, folder 70.318, Un Maquerean (drawing for Soir Bleu) 1914.⑸ 《青の宵》はホッパーの妻ジョゼフィンがホイットニー美術館に寄贈した作品に含まれていた。Gail Levin, “A Scholarʼs Perspective: The Edward Hopper Catalogue Raisonné,” IFAR Journal 8, no. 3 (2006) : 117-21.⑹ Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980), 30-31; Gail Levin, “Edward Hopperʼs Evening,” Connoisseur 205, no. 823 (September 1980) : 58; Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: A Catalog Raisonné, vol. 1 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995), 57; Linda Nochlin, “Edward Hopper and the Imagery of Alienation,” Art Journal 41, no. 2 (Summer 1981) : 140; Elliot Bostwick Davis, “Hopperʼs Foundation,” in Edward Hopper, essays by Carol Troyen et al. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2007), 39-40; Sheena Wagstaff, “The Elation of Sunlight,” in Edward Hopper, ed. Sheena Wagstaff (London: Tate Modern, 2004), 20; Sacha Nicholas, “The Third Dimension: Hopperʼs European Influences,” in Edward Hopper, ed. Carter E. Foster (Milano: Skira, 2009), 64.⑺ Carter E. Foster, “Hopper in Paris,” in Hopper: Drawing, essays by Carter E. Foster, Daniel S. Palmer and Mark W. Turner (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2014), 84-86, 91.⑻ 寄贈された際に題名のなかったドローイングやスケッチにはホイットニー美術館により便宜的に題名が付けられている。このような作品には括弧を付けることで作家が名付けた作品と区別し、図版には寄贈番号も付けた。HRC, series 3, folder 70.1553.34, (Exotic Scene of Camel and Rider) Undated; folder 70.1566.81 (Standing Figure in Exotic Costume) Undated.⑼ HRC series 4, folder 4.021, Hopper Possessions.⑽ HRC series 3, folder 70.1556.42, (Cyclist, Indian, Oriental Man) Undated; folder 70.1562.75 (Chinese war?) Undated.⑾ William A. Rogers, “Is this Imperialism?,” Harperʼs Weekly 44, no. 2275 (July 28, 1900), front page.⑿ Edward Hopper, “Charles Burchfield: American,” The Arts 14, no. 1 (July 1928), 5-12.⒀ Lloyd Goodrich and Raphael Soyer et al., “Six Who Knew Edward Hopper,” Art Journal 41, no. 2 (summer 1981) : 130-31.⒁ Edward Hopper, “Notes on Paintings,” in Edward Hopper: Retrospective (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1933), 17.
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