“I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds..”

— Edward Hopper

1911 - 1940, Notes on Painting - Edward Hopper (1933)

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prominent American realist painter and printmaker 1882–1967

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