“The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.”

— Edward Hopper

1941 - 1967
Source: 'statement by the Chairman of the Jury', Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1951, p. 7

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prominent American realist painter and printmaker 1882–1967

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