Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper was an American Realist painter, best remembered for his eerily realistic depictions of solitude in contemporary American life.

About Edward Hopper

• Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist.
  • Clement Greenberg

• For most Europeans, Edward Hopper's art confirms a preconceived image of America… Hopper's American qualities are in the scenes he chose to paint.
  • Rolf Günter Renner

• Hopper made a lot of changes – he cleaned things up.
  • Brian O’Doherty

• Hopper's best pictures are representational only in that simplified, stripped-down, visually dissonant manner that suggests some distant memory, or a dream.... They are simple, yet mysterious; blunt, yet poetic; familiar, yet at the same time inscrutable.
  • Walter Wells