After Paris, Hopper found New York "awfully crude and raw." In 1913, the year of the Armory Show that introduced Modern art to an American audience, Hopper moved into the top floor of 3 Washington Square North, where he lived and worked for the rest of his long life. Sexual tension is at the heart of Hopper's Room in New York, a scenario we peer at through an open window. Home from work, the man reads the sports page. Dressed to go out, the woman plays a single note on the piano, knowing it will annoy him. Their faces are almost as featureless as the blank sheet of music on the piano. Separated by the abstract expanse of the tall brown door, they are literally out of touch. But look a little closer at that fleshy pink armchair.


Edward Hopper, Room in New York, 1932. Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. UNL-F. M. Hall Collection © Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Image courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.


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