Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth...

Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 — May 15, 1967)

"What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house."

One of my favourite painters, he's got a impeccable eye for shadows, light and darkness. Some of his painting are even named simply after a place and a specific time of day, "afternoon" "evening", "sunday morning", "7PM" etc. and he seems to effortlessly capture the magic in these fleeting moments. "Nighthawks", "Summer Evening", "Gas" and "Early Sunday Morning" are my personal favourites. Simple yet extraordinary mood-pieces.

American Village, 1912

Summer Evening, 1947

Gas, 1940

Nighthawks, 1942

Early Sunday Morning, 1930

New York Movie, 1939

New York, New Haven and Hartford, 1931

House by the Railroad, 1925

Rooms For Tourists, 1945

Night Windows, 1928

Drug Store, 1927

Railroad Sunset, 1929

Corn Hill, 1930

House At Dusk, 1935

High Noon, 1949

The Lee Shore, 1941

Adam's House

Andrew Wyeth (12 July, 1917)

—I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.?? — A. W.

Christina's World

Daydream

End Of Olsons

Evening At Kuerners

Marriage

First Snow

Public Sale

Rest In Peace

Man and the Moon

Spring

Turkey Pond

Wind from the Sea

Weatherside

Master Bedroom

Lovers

Distant Thunder

First Snow (Groundhog Day Study)

Sea Bed

Afternoon Flight

Moon Madness

Post your favourite paintings depicting American urban & rural life.. and its inhabitans. 🙂

One thing I noted is that both Hopper and Wyeth are Cancers. I think it shows in their work.