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...Hopper's life was doubly isolated after marriage. Jo briskly set herself up as his defense against the world. During the rare interviews that Hopper granted, she did most of the talking. Once, excusing herself to go to the bathroom, she warned Hopper...
...Hopper bore these goings on with stoic tolerance, only occasionally interjecting in the midst of one of her conversational spasms a resigned "Oh, Jo." Mrs. Hopper had her own complaint. "Sometimes talking with Eddie is just like dropping a stone in a well, except that it doesn't thump when it hits bottom...
...After Me." What the new show emphasizes again is that Hopper was not just a visual annotator. Though it is full of those notations-either discarded or incorporated and transformed into finished works. These pictures reveal an involved man painting his own condition...
...What are you after here?" Critic Brian O'Doherty once asked him, looking at a particularly austere painting called Sun in an Empty Room. "I'm after me," said Hopper. Hopper had originally placed a female figure in the room and then painted it out. The resulting picture is haunted by a sense of a presence that is not there, of a room that has just been left...
...Hopper paintings are not to be taken as quaint studies of Cape Cod dunes or static scenes of raucous city life. No drinkers carouse at Hopper's bars, no oil-skinned fishermen haul Hopper's nets. He is an intense artist of the arrested moment, of the intermission between Act I and Act II of a play still being written. In general, there is no joy in the contemplation; the past seems full but futile, the future bleak but bearable. In the meantime, Hopper proposes the lean, almost unnoticed consolation of street lamplight on brownstone, of sunlight...