Shop art print and framed art Office in a Small City by Edward Hopper

Office in a Small City is a painting by Edward Hopper, painted in 1953 on Cape Cod and later in New York. This oil on canvas depicts a man seated at a desk looking out at a town through a large window located opposite him, perpendicular to the one through which the viewer sees him from three-quarter back. The painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, following a bequest from the George A. Hearn Fund. Begun in the summer in Truro and completed in his New York studio in October 1953, the work depicts "a young blond man in a white shirt and dark waistcoat seated in front of a desk"; this "greasy grey-green desk and desk chair". This desk overlooks the city from a building. Seen through a window that also reveals another window overlooking the city and, in particular, another massive concrete building, it is described by Hopper's wife Jo as "the man in concrete wall", trapped in a block of masonry despite the harsh light that marks the oblique shadows on the side walls of the office. Loneliness and alienation in the city, a recurrent theme in Hopper's work, is marked by the overhang from these new buildings overlooking older, lower buildings, perhaps occupied by other American-style "businessmen" plunged into the same [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the realism style.

 

« Office in a Small City » is kept at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York, USA.

 

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