Edward Hopper (1882–1967) was an American realist painter. He is best known for his mature works, such as Early Sunday Morning (1930,) often depicting isolated figures in tragic scenes from everyday urban life.
Born in Nyack, New York, Hopper studied under painter Robert Henri and made several trips to Europe 1906–10. However, his painting style owed little to contemporary European art movements and, in later years, was similarly unaffected by American Abstraction.
Hopper is celebrated for realistic depictions of everyday urban scenes. They often depict a sense of stillness and isolated figures in tragic scenes from everyday urban life. They surprise the viewer into recognition of familiar surroundings’ strangeness. His notable paintings are the Early Sunday Morning (1930) and Nighthawks (1942.)
Hopper gave up painting for a time (1913–23) to work as a commercial illustrator. He received official recognition with a retrospective exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1933 and is regarded as a master of 20th-century U.S. figurative art. He strongly influenced the Pop art and New Realist painters of the 1960s and 1970s.
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If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
—Edward Hopper
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