“Hopper’s intuitive sense of the architectonic and a focusing on large, solid masses and volumes dominated his style throughout his life. By 1913 a mood of quiet melancholy pervades, this too remains and is intensified in later years . . . the emphasis on shapes and angles is in rapport with Hopper's sense of simplicity and grandeur. An enveloping loneliness and eerie quietude is the real subject. His representations of city life have a desolate quality often emphasized by the inclusion of anonymous, non-communicating figures.”
Gail Levin, “Symbol & Reality in Edward Hopper's Room in New York,” Arts Magazine 56 (January 1982): 90.
