“I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation which neither literature nor a purely plastic art deals with.”

—  Edward Hopper

Letter to Charles Sawyer of Addison Gallery of Art October 19 , 1939
1911 - 1940

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prominent American realist painter and printmaker 1882–1967

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