Edward Hopper

The New York Times examines how Edward Hopper's paintings of solitary figures in diners, rooms and offices captured something larger than individual loneliness — a distinctly American mood of isolation and alienation. The piece revisits Hopper's body of work to argue that his famous scenes of people alone together were less personal portraits than a reading of the national character in the twentieth century.

The New York Times has published a review of 'Edward Hopper,' a new book by Louis Shadwick examining the life and work of the American realist painter. The review adds to ongoing critical discussion of Hopper's legacy and how new scholarship reframes his famously solitary, light-filled images of American life.