books0977: Hotel Lobby (detail) 1943.  Edward Hopper (1882-1967).  Oil on canvas. Indianapolis Museum of Art.  Themes of loneliness, transience, and alienation permeate the haunting images of Edward Hopper. Though he resisted the label, Hopper was a premier practitioner of American Scene Painting-a Depression-era movement that rejected modernism and other European influences, electing instead to render uniquely American subjects in a realist style. View high resolution

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Hotel Lobby (detail) 1943.  Edward Hopper (1882-1967).  Oil on canvas. Indianapolis Museum of Art.  Themes of loneliness, transience, and alienation permeate the haunting images of Edward Hopper. Though he resisted the label, Hopper was a premier practitioner of American Scene Painting-a Depression-era movement that rejected modernism and other European influences, electing instead to render uniquely American subjects in a realist style.

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