“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 ...

How did the acclaimed American artist Edward Hopper learn to paint? By copying other artists’ work out of instructional art magazines, it appears. A graduate student at the Courtauld Institute in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is one of America’s foremost 20th-century artists a cheater? Realist painter Edward Hopper — best known for creating the iconic work “Nighthawks,” in which nighttime city diner patrons are viewed from ...

Happy birthday, Edward Hopper! Art lovers paid tribute to the American realist during a four-day celebration in New York City that ended on July 22—142 years after his birth in 1882. Hopper’s talent ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Morning, 1950. Oil on canvas. 86.7 x ...

Despite having made a series of games based on famous paintings, Thomas Waterzooi wouldn't call himself a connoisseur of art. "I know art like the average person," he admits. "I had a mother who was ...

“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.

The enduring appeal of Hopper’s paintings—“Nighthawks” (1942) probably being the most recognizable—has much to do with their surface simplicity, their not-so-welcoming invitation to critical ...

Every detail of Edward Hopper’s “Western Motel” has been brought to life at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where you can spend the night. By Margot Boyer-Dry RICHMOND, Va. — Behind a pane of glass ...