November 9, 2007
Edward Hopper's Land of the Loner
People never smile in the paintings of Edward Hopper (1882-1967). Lonely men in shirt sleeves sit on the curb outside vacant stores, peering down at the cracked pavement ("Sunday," 1926), or they prop themselves upright in lawn chairs, beside deserted highways, and stare into the empty distance ("Four Lane Road," 1956). They show no emotion. Are they at the ends of their tethers? Or are they still looking for something out of life, something that has already passed, unseen? It's impossible to
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