“They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.”

— Edward Hopper

Interview in the late 1950's, Katherine Kuh and Avis Berman ed., in 'My Love Affair With Modern Art', New York 2006, p.276; as quoted in 'The Artist’s Voice', Katharine Kuh, New York and Evanston 1962, p.135
Hopper qualified his early Paris sketches, by adding that these sketches were direct, about the 'immediate impression', while being very much concerned to represent with representing depth
1941 - 1967

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prominent American realist painter and printmaker 1882–1967

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