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Edward Hopper: Facts & Related Content

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Born July 22, 1882 • Nyack • New York
Died May 15, 1967 (aged 84) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “Early Sunday Morning” • “House by the Railroad” • “Nighthawks” • “Room in Brooklyn” • “Second-Story Sunlight”
Movement / Style Social Realism

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self-portrait by Grant Wood
Grant Wood
American artist
Jack Levine
American artist
Benton, Thomas Hart
Thomas Hart Benton
American painter
Ben Shahn, 1966.
Ben Shahn
American artist
Reginald Marsh
Reginald Marsh
American artist
Portrait of José Herrera
Peter Hurd
American painter
Justice of the Pains: The Movement Westward, mural by John Steuart Curry, 1936; in the U.S. Department of Justice Building (Robert F. Kennedy Building), Washington, D.C.
John Steuart Curry
American painter
William Gropper
American artist
Antonio Berni
Argentine artist
Thomas W. Dewing
American artist
Tom Lea
American artist and writer
Robert S. Duncanson
American painter
Oscar Howe
American artist
Alfred Stieglitz: photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe
American painter
Harry Smith
Harry Smith
American filmmaker, painter, musicologist, ethnographer, collector, and mystic
Thomas Eakins, detail of a self-portrait, oil on canvas, 1902; in the National Academy of Design, New York.
Thomas Eakins
American painter
Duchamp, Marcel
Marcel Duchamp
French artist
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
American artist
Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Winslow Homer
American artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist

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