“The only influence I’ve ever had was myself,” the American painter Edward Hopper once said. A recent discovery by a graduate student, however, may qualify the artist’s claim to originality: at least ...

Many artists can attest to stockpiling their earliest attempts at art-making, which typically end up decorating their parents’ homes. Under few circumstances would they seriously consider selling or ...

For Edward Hopper, a rugged coastline or rural highway could be as psychologically charged as a café at night or a deserted city street. But the American artist’s landscapes tend to get overshadowed ...

NEW YORK — You can’t think about Edward Hopper without thinking of mid-20th century New York: its shoulder-to-shoulder tenements, its bridges, its pharmacies, its lunch counters and late-night diners.

MEATPACKING DISTRICT, Manhattan (WABC) -- When Oscar Wilde said life imitates art far more than art imitates life, he meant it figuratively. But if you wanted to interpret it literally, now you can.

Is one of America’s foremost 20th-century artists a cheater? Realist painter Edward Hopper — best known for creating the iconic work “Nighthawks,” in which nighttime city diner patrons are viewed from ...

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The enduring appeal of Hopper’s paintings—“Nighthawks” (1942) probably being the most recognizable—has much to do with their surface simplicity, their not-so-welcoming invitation to critical ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A major retrospective of Edward Hopper opening in Paris overturns some of the cliches about the 20th-century artist, uncovering the French and broader European influences that lie ...

In Alex Ross’ lyrical essay about the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, he describes the ending of Tarovsky’s masterpiece about a medieval Russian icon painter: “Suddenly, a black-and-white screen is filled ...