“All I ever wanted to do is to paint sunlight on the side of a wall.”

— Edward Hopper

Comment on his 'Early Sunday Morning' (1930) https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Early%20Sunday%20Morning
1941 - 1967

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prominent American realist painter and printmaker 1882–1967

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