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  • Hopper's "Early Sunday Morning"

    5 monthes ago - By Gurney Journey

    In my recent painting of a street scene in Ireland, I decided not to include people in the scene. The image that occurred to me was Early Sunday Morning by Edward Hopper, painted in 1930. He says that the word "Sunday" was tacked on by someone else. With or without the title, the painting gives the feeling of either a quiet morning when people are still asleep or a desolate row of shops stilled by the Great Depression. Hopper said the scene "was almost a literal translation of Seventh Avenue" in New York, but it wasn't literal at all, as you can see from the photo.
    He rolled up the...
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