Edward Hopper was a seminal American artist famous for his oil paintings and watercolors of both rural and city scenes. He often used strongly contrasting light and dark tones to create cinematic ...

Our guide today is Gordon Wilkins, a curator at the Addison Gallery of American Art at the Phillips Academy, in Andover, Mass ...

Edward Hopper’s New York, now at the Whitney Museum, is as frank and rich an exhibition as can be had on an artist so swathed in ambiguity. Hopper (1882–1967) is still the cryptic eminence ...

As seen in An Elegant Afternoon, Pène du Bois was known for his festive depictions of New York’s affluent circles. Unlike the ...