A bike ride celebrates Hopper’s 141st birthday 

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.