(gentle music) If you look at his pictures, the values of contemporary society are reflected in them. One of my favorite Hopper's is a painting called "Chop Suey," and it's two women sitting.

Edward Hopper lived in New York City from 1908 until his death in 1967. He immortalized the urban landscape around him through art. Getty Images The Whitney Museum of American Art’s special ...

"Hopper was playing with modernism," Halaban explains. "And he was really looking at the light and the shadow — and how that formed shape, so his work was really about form in these pictures.

“Edward Hopper’s Maine” includes his familiar lighthouse paintings from Cape Elizabeth and Pemaquid Point, as well as the pictures of the Victoria Mansion in Portland and the Methodist ...

Three Lions/Getty Images Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks,” an iconic 1942 painting of a corner diner in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, is the artist’s most famous work.

It is simply to be an honest reporter. Edward Hopper’s New York, a 2005 curation by Avis Berman, collects the disproportionate number of the artist’s images that are set in the city.

Detail, "Second Story Sunlight." ILLUSTRATION: Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y. Edward Hopper (1882-1967) holds the reputation of being one of the great American realists of the 20th century.

Although the first image he created (Hotel by Railroad, 2012) set out to replicate a Hopper painting, the more he worked on the series, the less he wanted to create duplicates.

It’s Edward Hopper time again at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A little more than four years ago the museum’s 75th-anniversary celebration, “Full House,” devoted an entire floor to ...

Hopper’s early Queensborough Bridge (1913) prefigures her glacial brushwork on the bridge and simple deft sufficiency in the shed. As the show makes clear, Hopper grows increasingly nostalgic.

The exhibition will present more than 60 works by Hopper drawn from public and private collections that explore his interest in hotels, motels, and other hospitality sites. One of the pictures ...