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TitleNight Windows

Creator nameHopper, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1928

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions29 x 34 in. (73.7 x 86.4 cm)

LocationMuseum of Modern Art, New York

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79270

Accession number248.194

SubjectsWindows in artElectric lightingNight in artSolitude in artRealism in art

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Conclusion

Hélène Valance, Jane M. Todd (Translator)

Nocturne: Night in American Art, 1890–1917

In 1907 the New York Herald published an installment of Winsor McCay’s comic strip Little Nemo, in which the young hero dreams he is lost among skyscrapers in the company of Imp, a recurring secondary character (fig. 150). Both of them have reached gigantic Alice in Wonderland proportions that comparatively...

Author

Hélène Valance, Jane M. Todd (Translator)

PublisherYale University Press

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.205-209

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00087.017

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16997&redirecttoanchor=27641

Chapter subject tags:Hopper, Edward, 1816-1888Visual culture--History--19th centuryNocturne painting, American--19th century

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