Edward Hopper is well known for his urban scenes depicting isolated figures in diners and hotel rooms which came to encapsulate modern American life in the mid-twentieth century. He and his wife Jo would escape the city and summer in South Truro on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where they would take trips out to find new material to paint.
The paintings he produced in the New England region showed another side of his work. There really is fresh air in these paintings. And the sunlight is glorious.
"Maybe I am not very human. What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house."
- Edward Hopper
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