Painting

By: Edward Hopper

Date: 1930

Source: Hopper, Edward. Early Sunday Morning. 1930. In the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Image number 109046.

About the Artist: Edward Hopper (1882–1967) is one of the best-known realist painters of the Depression era. Born in Nyack, New York, in 1882, Hopper studied with the renowned American realist Robert Henri and greatly admired the work of the Ashcan school of artists. He enjoyed significant success until abstract expressionism began to overtake realism in popularity. Except for regular summer trips to New England, Hopper confined himself to his New York studio for much of his life, dying there in 1967.

Introduction

Two branches of realist art emerged in the 1920s and 1930s in the United States. A reaction against the excesses of romanticism and classicism, they sought to represent...