Edward Hopper
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"Edward Hopper" was a prominent American realism/American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolor painting/watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.

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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.