Art - Edward Hopper

Links

1. House by the Railroad analysis + teaching resource
2. Nighthawks analysis on Edwardhopper.net
3. The Pleasure of Sadness on Tate.org
4. Blog with short 1-paragraph analysis on major works by Edward Hopper
5. Hopper's America, in Shadow and Light by The NY Times

• Hopper’s light gave Depression-era Americans, and many others thereafter, a glamorous, even heroic image of themselves as solitary and tragic, persevering, deservedly nostalgic. 
• In the country he tended to paint houses as if they were public monuments, from a respectful distance. In the city no distances are respected.