{"id":3573,"date":"2025-04-25T21:09:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/life-style\/gretchen-dow-simpson-creator-of-new-yorker-covers-dies-at-85\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T21:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:09:59","slug":"gretchen-dow-simpson-creator-of-new-yorker-covers-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/life-style\/gretchen-dow-simpson-creator-of-new-yorker-covers-dies-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Dow Simpson, Creator of New Yorker Covers, Dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Gretchen Dow Simpson, an acclaimed Rhode Island painter whose moody, highly geometric images of seaside cottages, snow-covered farms and other totems of New England life drew comparisons to Edward Hopper<\/a> and graced the covers of 58 issues of The New Yorker, died on April 11 at her home in Providence, R.I. She was 85.<\/p>\n

The cause was complications of Lewy body dementia, her daughter Megan Wolff said.<\/p>\n

Ms. Simpson was best known for her meditative images of the seaside and country architecture of the Northeastern seaboard \u2014 \u201cthose rather Protestant exteriors and interiors that Edward Hopper was so taken with,\u201d Carl Little wrote in 1997 in reviewing a Manhattan exhibition of her work for Art in America.<\/p>\n

While modest, solitary buildings were often her subject matter, Ms. Simpson’s work was not purely representational. A former commercial photographer, she applied a telephoto approach to many of her paintings, zooming in on windows, doorways or rooftops to emphasize the juxtaposed angles and intersecting lines that characterized her work, giving it the feel of abstract art.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n