“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 ...

Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, his most famous work, on view at the Art Institute of Chicago on December 19, 2013. John Gress/Corbis via Getty Images If Shadwick is indeed correct, then works that are to ...

Canadian painter Peter Harris is used to having his quiet urban landscape paintings compared to Edward Hopper. There’s the fact that Harris’s paintings all depict a city at night, as many of Hopper’s ...

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 ...

For Edward Hopper, a rugged coastline or rural highway could be as psychologically charged as a café at night or a deserted city street. But the American artist’s landscapes tend to get overshadowed ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Edward Hopper’s “East Wind Over Weehawken” has sold for $40.5 million — an auction record for the artist. The 1934 work depicts a streetscape of the New Jersey city across the Hudson ...

“Hopper: An American Love Story” will premiere at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1. The documentary follows the life of Edward Hopper, who traveled to New Mexico for inspiration.

In Alex Ross’ lyrical essay about the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, he describes the ending of Tarovsky’s masterpiece about a medieval Russian icon painter: “Suddenly, a black-and-white screen is filled ...

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 ...

Edward Hopper's famous portrait of economic hardship has just become the new symbol of unbridled wealth. The American realist's 1934 painting, "East Wind Over Weehawken," sold Thursday for $40.5 ...

A little boy was trying energetically to climb atop one of the two lions that have long “guarded” the Art Institute as people poured through the doors on Saturday, becoming the latest of the millions ...

This undated photo provided by Christie's shows Edward Hopper’s painting, “East Wind Over Weehawken” which sold Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 by Christie's for $40.5 million - a new auction record for the ...