Hop To It

Any short list of great American, or great Twentieth Century painters will include Edward Hopper.



Just across the Tappan Zee in Nyack, his family home still stands -listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.

Every morning as a child, he'd step onto the porch with the view (maybe the cars were older).

The house is converted into a gallery for local artists, with the backyard serving a concert venue.

This couch sits in the small ground floor office. I like to imagine an awkward teenaged Hopper doing the "stretch move", making time with a fin de siecle lass.

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If a 127 year old Hopper took a stroll down the street, he'd find a chair for his great, great granddaughter in the window of the thrift shop.

animation's own "Lizzy McGuire" created by Debra Solomon