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New exhibit places Hopper in the context of ‘His Time’

Whitney takes a fresh look at the artist of isolation

By Sebastian Smee

 |  Globe Staff  

  October 31, 2010

Edward Hopper’s imagery is so deeply ingrained in the American imagination that the impulse to associate it with hackneyed states of alienation is by now difficult to undo. And yet, just as Ingmar Bergman was more than a tormented Swede shaking his fist at God — he was also a filmmaker of surpassing gentleness and sensual, mischievous humor — Hopper was much more than a poet of depression and loneliness. You simply have to look at his work to realize how various his moods are and how capacious, how richly ambivalent his images.

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