Edward Hopper | Picturing America On Screen

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Edward Hopper

As the railroad tracks rattle by a once-grand Victorian home, so intersect the themes of modern progress and historical continuity. The painting’s bleakness suggests that Edward Hopper found little to celebrate in America’s post-World War I urbanization.

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John James Audubon

The glory of nature captured with passion and grace!
Brooklyn Bridge

A Walker Evans photograph and a Joseph Stella painting
The Chrysler Building

This is an homage to one of the most lilting and beautiful structures in New York and the world. Its art deco grandeur survives with authority and wonder.
Childe Hassam

American impressionism, WWI, red, white, and blue, and the love of a parade
Benton/Bingham

Populist paintings about the roots of our own democracy, narrated with enthusiasm and care by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary
Cassatt/Sargent

Mothers and children
Washington/Selma

A beautiful comparison of two great works — one a monumental re-imagining of an outsized historic moment — the other an “in-the-moment” photograph
Edward Hopper

The persistence of the American gothic notion of mood and architecture in photography, film, film design, even cartoon; the evocative loneliness of Hopper
Lawrence/Puryear

African-American themes depicted by African-American artists

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