And so the one and only Dennis Hopper is no longer with us and—because whom we die with is often as curious as who shares our birthday—he is perhaps now hanging out in the great Afterlife Green Room with the also recently departed Gary Coleman.
Some quick art facts about Dennis:
- not (immediately) related to Edward Hopper
- did study painting early on with American Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton
- played art dealer Bruno Bischofberger in the 1996 biopic Basquiat
- one of the first artworks he bought as a collector in the 1960s was an Andy Warhol soup can print
- aside from his acting, was a photographer and painter—with more info on his work here.
