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　　MILAN.- For the first time in Italy, Milan and Rome, are set to pay tribute to the entire career of Edward Hopper (1882-1967), the 20th century’s most popular and best known American artist, with a major anthological exhibition that is the first of its kind in this country.

　　The exhibition presents more than 160 works, including famous masterpieces such as "Summer Interior" (1909), "Pennsylvania Coal Town" (1947), "Morning Sun" (1952), "Second Story Sunlight" (1960), "A Woman in the Sun" (1961) and various paintings that have never been exhibited, like the stunning "Girlie Show" (1941). It explores the whole of Hopper’s oeuvre, and all the techniques used by an artist now viewed as one of the classic painters of the twentieth century.

　　The exhibition will be staged in Palazzo Reale in Milan from October 14, 2009 to January 31. Immediately after that it will be held in Rome, at the Fondazione Roma Museum, from February 16 to June 13, 2010, and then at the Fondation de l’Hermitage in Lausanne, from June 25to October 17.

　　The Hopper event also exceptionally heralds the beginning of a cultural partnership between Comune di Milano and Fondazione Roma, set to give rise to the first in a series of joint projects involving the City Council of Mayor Letizia Moratti and the Fondazione Roma, chaired by Prof. Emmanuele Francesco Maria Emanuele.

【编辑：张瑜】