Frank W. Benson: Children in Woods (67.187.210. Edmund Charles Tarbell: Across the Room (67.187.141. Childe Hassam: Winter in Union Square (43.116.2. John Henry Twachtman: Arques-la-Bataille (68.52. John Singer Sargent: Reapers Resting in a Wheat Field (50.130.14. Mary Cassatt: Lady at the Tea Table (23.101. Edward Hopper. "Edward Hopper, the best-known American realist of the inter-war period, once said: 'The man's the work. Something doesn't come out of nothing.' This offers a clue to interpreting the work of an artist who was not only intensely private, but who made solitude and introspection important themes in his painting. "He was born in the small Hudson River town of Nyack, New York State, on 22 July 1882.
His family were solidly middle-class: his father owned a dry goods store where the young Hopper sometimes worked after school. Whom did I meet? "In addition to spending some months in Paris, he visited London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Brussels. "Hopper had settled in Greenwich Village, which was to be his base for the rest of his life, and in 1923 he renewed his friendship with a neighbour, Jo Nivison, whom he had known when they were fellow students under Chase and Henri.
"From the time of his marriage, Hopper's professional fortunes changed.