Edward Hopper’s gorgeous ‘New York Movie’ evokes disappointment, that’s what makes it feel real It’s exciting, when you get up close to this 1939 painting by Edward Hopper, to see the ...

Encapsulated in his famous painting, “New York Movie”(1939), Hopper was fascinated with the space of the theater in relation to the individual, not the crowd. In this image, an usherette ...

Edward Hopper’s “New York Movie,” 1939. In fact, his Washington Square apartment, the site of the long-shuttered Nighthawks diner and other Hopper haunts, are within walking distance of the ...

including some of Hopper’s most famous works like “Early Sunday Morning,” “Room in New York,” and “New York Movie.” It also offers an intimate look into the artist’s storied life ...

The rise of mass media, glossy magazines, movies, radio and eventually television coincides with Hopper’s decades in New York. His paintings capture a bygone New York, but they anticipate ...

[Hopper’s “New York Movie” 1939 features a woman looking forlorn off to the side of a movie theater.] Voice for Hopper: Oh, it’s a long time between canvases. I have to be very much ...

Edward Hopper 'New York Movie' (1939) Oil on canvas, 32 1/4 × 40 1/8 in. (81.9 × 101.9 cm). The ... More Museum of Modern Art; given anonymously. Curated by Kim Conaty, Steven and Ann Ames ...

painter Edward Hopper was a man on a mission. Again and again, he would pick up his sketchbook and head for a cluster of New York City movie theaters. Sometimes it was the Republic or the Palace ...

Edward Hopper's New York Movie, 1939 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image courtesy Art Resource The exhibition focuses on the artist’s ...

Hopper has always been part of the bad conscience of American modernism. I recall how his beautiful depiction of the usherette, “New York Movie,” used to be hived off to a little hallway of ...

He turns offices, restaurants and movie theaters into stages for ... via Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Hopper himself came to New York from the suburb of Nyack, across the Hudson, commuting in ...

Edward Hopper must have been desperate to turn ... her as she stares at the coffee cup she holds; an usher in “New York Movie” (1939) ignores the film as, haloed by a sconce, she cradles ...