Edward Hopper is widely acknowledged as the most important realist painter of twentieth-century America. But his vision of reality was a selective one, reflecting his own temperament in the empty cityscapes, landscapes, and isolated figures he chose to paint.
Born in 1882 in Nyack, a small town on the Hudson River about forty miles north of New York City, Edward Hopper was the son of a local businessman. After spending a brief period at a school for illustrators, he attended the New York School of Art from 1900 to 1906. His teachers there were William Merritt Chase, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Robert ...
Automat, 1927 by Edward Hopper Automat was first displayed on Valentine's Day 1927 at the opening of Hopper's second solo show, at the Rehn Galleries in New York. By April it had been sold for $1,200. The painting is today owned by the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa. The painting portrays a lone woman staring into a cup of coffee in an Automat at night. The reflection of identical rows of light ...
Nighthawks, 1942 by Edward Hopper Nighthawks, 1942 by Edward Hopper Nighthawks is a 1942 painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is Hopper's most famous work and is one of the most recognizable paintings in American art.
Stairway at 48 rue de Lille, Paris 1906 by Edward Hopper Stairway at 48 rue de Lille, Paris 1906 by Edward Hopper Edward Hopper arrived in Paris for the first time in October 1906, coincidentally a day after Cezanne died in the south of France.