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The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is running the special exhibition, Edward Hopper and the American Hotel, through February 23, with the room modeled on Hopper's 'Western Motel' as the centerpiece.
The VMFA Hopper Hotel Room has everything the "Western Motel" painting has -- minus the woman in the burgundy dress. The overnight guests are a sort of stand in.
It isn't hard to imagine yourself inside a Hopper painting (say, having a coffee at a late-night diner) and now, for $150 a night, you can sleep in a re-creation of his 1957 work, Western Motel.
It looks like the setting of a painting, and it is. Every detail here was inspired by Edward Hopper’s 1957 painting “Western Motel,” which has been brought to vibrant, three-dimensional life.
The VMFA Hopper Hotel Room has everything the "Western Motel" painting has -- minus the woman in the burgundy dress. The overnight guests are a sort of stand in.
It isn't hard to imagine yourself inside a Hopper painting (say, having a coffee at a late-night diner) and now, for $150 a night, you can sleep in a re-creation of his 1957 work, Western Motel.