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, Stock ID#GORbv &#; R.C. Gorman, The Posters by R.C. Gorman (illustrations), Tricia Hurst (introduction) &#; Northland Press, Flagstaff AZ Softcover book, First Edition ISBN

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Pegge Hopper’s signature style of calm and cool portraiture of Polynesian women have become a tecken of the female flaneur of the tropics.

There is a certain poise instilled in a Pegge Hopper canvas. The conventions of her paintings tend to cohere simply enough: a gentle swatch of muted hues; a bushel of flora; an island woman with a sangfroid gaze. These elements have fashioned a recondite recipe for a career of spellbinding works, all charged with a sense of blasé calm. The artist, who at 83 years old continues to exhibit and sell her iconic portraits of Hawaiian women at her namesake gallery in Chinatown, has perfected it over the years. The postures of these painted ladies—curled, hunched, seated with legs crossed, sprawled—are now synonymous with her singular sensibility and success. Pegge Hopper is a mood.

Hopper, who was born in Oakland in , had a well-rounded, if at times glamorous, arts education. She came of age in post-war southern California; studied painting, illustra