"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life of the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.” - Edward Hopper

Most of the time I focus on colorful landscapes and seascapes, but this post is a change of theme. I will be taking a closer look at some of the most dramatic paintings I have come across. These paintings demonstrate just how powerful art can be and how much emotion we are able to depict

Hopper also took an interest in cars and trains. The artist was drawn to the introspective mood that travelling seems to put us into. He captured the atmosphere in half-empty carriages making their way across a landscape: the silence that reigns inside while the wheels beat in rhythm against the rails outside, the dreaminess fostered by the noise and the view from the windows - a dreaminess in which we seem to stand outside our normal selves and have access to thoughts and memories that may not emerge in more settled circumstances. The woman here seems in such a frame of mind, reading her book and shifting her gaze between the carriage and the view. [Private Collection - Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 45.7 cm]

So inspired was filmmaker Gustav Deutsch by Hopper's unique vision of midcentury America that he recreated 13 of the painter's works for the big screen

A day at the Sea in the style of Edward Hopper, Large 3584x5736 pixels in the style of artwork by Edward Hopper. Captivating Solitude Immerse yourself in the evocative world of Edward Hopper style with this exquisite downloadable print. Titled “Captivating Solitude,” it features a lady lost in contemplation by the sea. The interior scene, bathed in sunlight, offers a serene backdrop to her reflective state. Dressed in a striking red dress, she sits near a window that frames the lively beach outside, where people bask in the golden sands under a clear sky. This piece masterfully balances stillness and narrative, inviting viewers to explore the depths of personal reflection. Perfect for collectors and admirers of Hopper’s style, this print promises to add a touch of introspective beauty to any space. Look great on any wall. Download straight away and have printed in a size to match your framing.

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A versatile artist indeed popular for his oil paintings, watercolors as well as etchings, Edward Hopper was a realist painter of American descent. The themes of his works of art mostly featured the rural and urban scenes of American life. Gas stations, street scenes, motels, hotels, rooms, theaters, restaurants, and seascapes were the common themes […]

Martin Lewis died in obscurity in 1962; a retired art teacher who had found some success in his early career, but was largely forgotten after the Great Depression took away the demand for his craft, leaving Lewis to spend his last three decades teaching other people how to etch. History chose Edward

Martin Lewis died in obscurity in 1962; a retired art teacher who had found some success in his early career, but was largely forgotten after the Great Depression took away the demand for his craft, leaving Lewis to spend his last three decades teaching other people how to etch. History chose Edward

Edward Hopper’s wife, when asked, “What is the most difficult aspect of being married to a great artist?” “It took me a long time to realize that when he is looking out the …

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In my last post, on Robert Cottingham, I showed a detail from one of Edward Hopper’s paintings, and think that it would be appropriate to end the year taking a look at some more of his work. Hopper has always been one of my favourite artists, and was an early influence on my own work, since I fell in love with his painting Early Sunday Morning when I stumbled across it (not literally – it was hanging on the wall) in the Whitney Museum, New York, way back in 1969. Hopper (born Nyack, New York 1882) is 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. By 1899 he had already decided to become an artist, but his parents persuaded him to begin by studying commercial illustration because this seemed to offer a more secure future. Later, at the New York School of Art, he studied under Robert Henri, one of the fathers of American Realism - a man whom he later described as 'the most influential teacher I had'. In 1906 he followed the fashion to study in Paris but was later to claim that it had little effect on him - he hadn’t even heard of Picasso while there for instance. He visited Europe on two more occasions – in 1909 and 1910 – then never went to Europe again. 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 Henri. She was now forty and Hopper fortytwo. In the following year they married. Their long and complex relationship was to be the most important of the artist's life. From the time of his marriage, Hopper's professional fortunes changed. His second solo show, at the Rehn Gallery in New York in 1924, was a sell-out. The following year, he painted what is now generally acknowledged to be his first fully mature picture, The House by the Railroad. With its deliberate, disciplined spareness, this is typical of what he was to create thereafter. House by the Railroad 1925 His paintings combine apparently incompatible qualities. Modern in their bleakness and simplicity, they are also full of nostalgia for the puritan virtues of the American past - the kind of quirky nineteenth-century architecture Hopper liked to paint, for instance, could not have been more out of fashion than it was in the mid 1920s, when he first began to look at it seriously. Once it took off, his career was little affected by the Depression, had become extremely well known. In 1929, he was included in the Museum of Modern Art's second exhibition, Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans, and in 1930 The House by the Railroad entered the museum's permanent collection. In the same year, the Whitney Museum bought Hopper's Early Sunday Morning it's most expensive purchase up to that time. In 1933 Hopper was given a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. This was followed, in 1950, by a fuller retrospective show at the Whitney. Early Sunday Morning 1930 Some paintings, such as his celebrated image of a gas-station, Gas painted in 1940, even have elements which anticipate Pop Art. Gas 1940 When the link between the outer world he observed and the inner world of feeling and fantasy broke, Hopper found he was unable to create. In particular, the rise of Abstract Expressionism left him marooned artistically, for he disapproved of many aspects of the new art. He died in 1967, isolated if not forgotten, and Jo Hopper died ten months later. His true importance has only been fully realized in the years since his death. His painting Nighthawks is now one of the most iconic paintings of the C20th. Nighthawks 1942 Drug Store 1927 Automat 1927 Night Windows 1928 The Lighthouse at Two Lights 1929 New York Movie 1939 Pennsylvania Coal Town 1947 Seven A.M. 1948 Rooms by the Sea 1951 Office in a Small City 1953 Second Story Sunlight 1960 New York Office 1962 Sun in an Empty Room 1963 Chair Car 1965