爱德华•霍珀（Edward Hopper）的分类帐簿是纽约惠特尼博物馆（New York Whitney Museum）大型霍珀（Hopper）藏品的一部分，提供了独特的机会来窥视现代最内向和沉默寡言的艺术家之一的创作过程。Hopper和他的妻子一起记录了绘画和出售的绘画，开出的发票和收到的卖画钱，使用的材料以及考虑的主题。然而，这些速写和符号所传达的并不是一个普通画家的日常工作过程，而是一位以日常这个概念为主题的艺术家，他对日常生活的描绘是迄今为止任何艺术家都无可比拟的。挑选出来的记账页面与各幅画作的全彩复制品并列放置，本书记录了爱德华•霍珀最受尊敬的作品的制作及其随后的命运。

Edward Hopper's ledger books, part of the New York Whitney Museum's large Hopper holdings, provide the unique opportunity to peer into the creative process of one of the most private and taciturn artists of the modern era. Together with his wife, Hopper recorded paintings made and paintings sold, invoices made and payments received, materials used and subjects considered. What the skethches and notations convey, however, is not the day-

today working process of just any painter, but of an artist whose subject engaged the very notion of the quotidian in a manner unrivalled to the present day. And they shed a new light on the Whitney Museum's special and privileged relationship with the artist. Juxtaposing selected original ledger pages with full-color reproductions of the respective paintings, this volume documents the making-of and subsequent fate of Edward Hopper's most revered works.