Hopper painted American silence. From his first mature canvases in the early 1920s until his death in 1967, he built a body of work that refused both the rhetoric of the regionalists and the consolation of abstraction.
Born in Nyack, New York, he trained at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri before three formative trips to Paris between 1906 and 1910. The Parisian light, and a sustained encounter with Degas and the Impressionists, would shape his treatment of the urban interior for the next five decades.
Recognition came late. He was nearly forty before he sold a second painting; nearly fifty before House by the Railroad (1925) entered the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the institution's first acquisition of an American painter.
Pearl Street Gallery has represented the Hopper estate's secondary market presence since 2016, with a particular focus on the watercolors of the 1920s and the late etchings.