Edward Hopper
In the Sixties, his realism influenced the photo-realists. Edward Hopper was the quintessential realist painter of twentieth-century America. Born in Nyack, New York, in 1882, he studied art at the Chase School, New York. After spending a year in Paris, he soon discovered his unique, unmistakable style, from which he did not waiver until his death in 1967. His images have become part of the very grain and texture of American experience, and even today, forty years after his death, it is all but impossible to see America without some refraction through them. He won recognition while he was still alive, through honorary university doctorates and significant awards, together with praise from the public and from critics.
