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Thank you for the cover story on Edward Hopper [Dec. 24]. This is the comprehensive type of article on art that the people understand. Refreshing compared to some of the stuff appearing in the art publications...
...suppose I am a highly prejudiced observer (considering the generous way you quote me), but the Hopper story struck me as a dazzling performance, even for you, and those final paragraphs the finest I have ever read in TIME (or in art criticism, for that matter). You almost persuade me that Hopper is a painter and belongs to the ages...
That is an excellent piece on Edward Hopper, but I disagree that "the Hoppers go miles out of their way to get gas a fraction of a cent cheaper," as they buy some of it from me and not at cut-rate prices. Mrs. Hopper appreciates our clean rest rooms...
...clue to Hopper's paintings is found in the description of his studio-bare, bright, orderly, still heated by a coal stove-and in the man himself, a man of few words. His pictures are not a moment in time as are those of the impressionists but a moment out of time-pictures that seem to regret change...
Since Edward Hopper came to the Huntington Hartford Foundation recently, I've had an opportunity to learn that this reticent fellow has a good sense of humor, and is not always silent. He broke his silence in facing himself on your cover. To quote him on your article-"damn...