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“Ninety percent of artists are forgotten ten minutes after they’re dead,” Hopper once said, but like most artists Edward Hopper greatly underestimated his own work and ability (Levin 3). Since his death, Hopper has been persistently acclaimed “the major twentieth-century American ‘realist’ and one of the giants of American painting” by both his critics and even fellow artists. ... In time, Hopper gained widespread recognition as the epitome of American Scene painting - expressing the loneliness, hollowness, and depression of everyday town life, eventhough, Hopper always remained an eccentric artist. He once explained “I dont think I ever tried to paint the American scene; Im trying to paint myself” (“Edward Hopper” The Archive).
Hopper grew up in the small town of Nyack in on the Hudson River in New York during the late 1800’s. ... He started off at the New York School of Illustrating and then moved on to the New York School of Art where he worked under William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri, one of the fathers of American Realism. Hopper remained at the school for seven years, developing at a slow pace, until he soon traveled to France to extend his study of art with a touch of European style and culture. Although this was a major moment in the history of the Modern movement, Hopper claimed that there was little effect on him.
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