Widely remembered as the premiere artist to capture the nation’s zeitgeist throughout the Great Depression, Edward Hopper‘s candid portraits of America have secured him a seat in the art historical ...
Edward Hopper’s America is a desolate place, a lonely landscape of hotel rooms, offices, train compartments, lighthouses, gas stations and men and women who look past one another in silence. Hopper’s ...
Many artists can attest to stockpiling their earliest attempts at art-making, which typically end up decorating their parents’ homes. Under few circumstances would they seriously consider selling or ...
Edward Hopper is one of America's favorite painters, best-known for his shadowy oils Nighthawks, Luncheonette and Chop Suey that he painted in his New York studio. But the piece that put Hopper on the ...
Edward Hopper is known today as a quintessentially “American” painter, an artistic genius as singular as the lonely figures who populate his landscapes. Born into a middle-class family in 1882, Hopper ...
"My aim in painting," Edward Hopper (1882-1967) once wrote, "has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature." And yet, to look at many of Hopper's best ...
As a Victorian-era New Yorker with a strict Baptist upbringing, Edward Hopper had issues with women. Even though he stood 6 feet 4 inches tall and was a strapping, handsome fellow, he was “timid as an ...
One of the great Edward Hopper exhibitions of all time–including the Chicago Art Institute’s famous “Nighthawks” but also a number of Hopper paintings with which many Americans may not be familiar–has ...
MEATPACKING DISTRICT, Manhattan (WABC) -- When Oscar Wilde said life imitates art far more than art imitates life, he meant it figuratively. But if you wanted to interpret it literally, now you can.