Edward Hopper is one of the most enduringly popular painters of the twentieth century.

Many of his works are now considered icons of modern art, and canvases such as Nighthawks not only reshaped what painting looked like in America, but created a visual language for middle-class life and its discontents.

Illustrated with over 180 oils, watercolours and prints, and including essays by several noted scholars, this is the most comprehensive volume on Hopper produced in the last decade.
It examines the dynamics of the artist’s creative process and discusses his work within the cultural currents of his day – analysing the influences not only of other painters, but also of such media as literature and film.

While most studies have tended to see Hopper as the great painter of alienation, this takes a much more representative view. Spanning the whole of Hopper’s career, but with particular emphasis on his heyday in the 30s and 40s, Edward Hopper highlights the artist’s greatest achievements while discussing such topics as his European influences, critical reactions to his work, the relation of Realism to Modernism, the artist’s fascination with architecture, his depiction of women, and the struggle in his last years to produce original works.