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The Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan is teaming with the Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, OutCycling and the Meatpacking Business Improvement District to celebrate painter Edward Hopper”™s birthday with the first Whitney Hopper Ride.
This approximately 60-mile round trip bike ride from Manhattan”™s Meatpacking District to Hopper”™s birthplace in Nyack and back will take place July 22 on what would have been the artist”™s 141st birthday.
Cyclists will start their journey at 7 a.m. outside the Whitney (99 Gansevoort St.) with light refreshments before heading north to Hopper House (82 North Broadway).”¯
Hopper House will offer snacks to registered cyclists between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., birthday activities and tours of the artist”™s home, including a look at his 1897 bicycle and the exhibit “Ellsworth Kelly: States of The River.” At the end of the visit, riders will head back to the Whitney, which is located near the neighborhood where Hopper lived and worked for much of his life.”¯
Each participant will receive a food voucher, a Whitney Hopper Ride water bottle and two tickets to return to Hopper House and the Whitney.
Experienced cyclists are encouraged to sign up for the ride at”¯Outcycling.org.”¯Space is”¯extremely limited. Use code”¯HopperHouse.
