Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is one of my favorite painters. Born in New York, he studied at the New York School of Art (1900-1906), continuing his studies on his own in Paris. He then traveled and painted throughout Europe. Around 1910, Hopper returned to the US, settling in Greenwich Village in NYC. After a brief struggle for recognition, he soon started to show his paintings in galleries, eventually having one-man shows, then going on to be one of the most important of American painters.

From the 1930s throught the 1950s, Hopper spent his summers on Cape Cod, in the area where my family has a cottage. His Truro studio where he painted is still there, as is a house in my town which is a subject of one of his well-known paintings.

Hopper relies on light to express feelings of quietness, loneliness and isolation, common themes in his paintings.

This is Rooms for Tourists (1945). I believe this building is on the main street to the harbor in Wellfleet, MA and is still being operated as a guest house.

One of my favorites, Route 6, Eastham (1941)