“The only influence I’ve ever had was myself,” the American painter Edward Hopper once said. A recent discovery by a graduate student, however, may qualify the artist’s claim to originality: at least ...

Most vacationers head to Cape Cod for the sand and surf, but we were on another mission, a visit to Edward Hopper's summer home on the beach in Truro. He's the artist of the lonely-hearts, who painted ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

It used to be easy to tell if an Edward Hopper painting was a fake. If James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe were sipping coffee in the "Nighthawks" diner, you could be pretty sure Edward ...

Edward Hopper painted “First Branch of the White River, Vermont” in 1938 from a hillside on the farm at which he and his wife, Jo, were staying. The painting is now in the collection of the Museum of ...

When I lived in Chicago, I often went to the Art Institute to admire the paintings of Edward Hopper, especially Nighthawks. Later on, I would do the same thing in New York, at the Whitney; both ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Morning, 1950. Oil on canvas. 86.7 x ...

Edward Hopper's career soared while his wife Jo Nivison's faltered. When Edward Hopper first met fellow painter and future spouse Josephine Nivison in 1923, he had not sold a painting in 10 years. Jo, ...

In the year 2020, more than half a century after Edward Hopper died, social media has christened his paintings as the quintessence of our feelings in quarantine. The most popular example might be a ...

Widely remembered as the premiere artist to capture the nation’s zeitgeist throughout the Great Depression, Edward Hopper‘s candid portraits of America have secured him a seat in the art historical ...