CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/24/2020

The Experience and sensation of isolation in 'Edward Hopper: A New Perspective on Landscape'

"To me, form, color and design are merely a means to an end, the tools I work with, and they do not interest me greatly for their own sake," Edward Hopper wrote in 1939. "I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation… One must say guardedly, human experience, for the fear of having it confounded with superficial anecdote. I am always repelled by painting that deals narrowly with harmonies or dissonances of color and design. My aim in painting is always using nature as the medium, to try to project upon canvas my most intimate reaction to the subject as it appears when I like it most; when the facts are given unity by my interest and prejudices." Route 6, Eastham (1941) is reproduced from Edward Hopper: A New Perspective on Landscape.