Williamsburg Bridge

 

In his frontal glamourless depiction of tenement housing,

Williamsburg Bridge, Hopper encapsulated some of the

objectives of these (realist) painters, as well as of the

students who put them on view: to gloss over nothing,

to reveal what was unique to one culture rather than

imitative of another, to dwell on the shadows as well

as the sunlight.

– On The Harvard Society’s exhibition of work by living

American artists ran from February 19 to March 15, 1929

 

- PATRON SAINTS FIVE REBELS WHO OPENED AMERICA TO A NEW ART 1928 –1943