Major Works

Much of Hopper’s work is a reflection on the conveyance of eerie solitude and total loneliness. He exhibited one of his works in1913 at the Armory show in New York which to his dismay didn’t spark the amount of interest he wanted it to. He was still working as a commercial illustrator when he produced his painting “The House by the Railroad’ in 1925 that signified his maturity in his art with emphasis on blunt shapes and angles along with stark playing of lighting and shadows.

Hopper was well known for his portrayal of man-made chaos with his works like, “New York Movie” in 1939 and “Approaching a City ” in 1946. As a boy he was also fascinated with the high seas and dreamt of becoming a Naval Architect. This inclination of his is very evident in his work “Ground Swell” that did in 1939. His fascination with the sea was a life long dream that he revisited through his life. His impact on the world of art is considered and only recently recognized as when an exhibit of his works was conducted in the Tate Modern Gallery of Art in London last 2004, his works drew a huge number of patrons that numbered 400,000 people from all ages and groups. This exhibition was deemed as one of the most successful exhibitions in the Tate Museum to date.