Hopper Drawing: A Painter’s Process is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the creative practice of Edward Hopper (1882–1967). More than anything else, Hopper’s drawings reveal the continually evolving relationship between observation and invention in the artist’s work, and his abiding interest in the spaces and motifs—the street, the movie theater, the office, the bedroom, the road—that he would return to throughout his career as an artist.
“I Believe the Secretary”: Women, the Workplace, and Edward Hopper’s Office at Night
"Although Edward Hopper refuses an obvious reading of his painting Office at Night, I found an age-old story, and I take a position: I believe the secretary." Interpretation Fellow Alexandra Nicome reflects on the 1940 classic's resonance in this age of intersectional feminism.
"Sex and the Office": The Many Interpretations of Office at Night
The situational ambiguity of Edward Hopper's Office at Night (1940) has led to a variety of interpretations over the years, the bulk of which suggest a sexual tension between the two figures.
