The Cantor Arts Center has announced the major new acquisition of a painting by Edward Hopper, New York Corner (Corner Saloon), 1913. One of Hopper’s early paintings, the oil on canvas was created when Hopper was just 31 and still struggling to establish himself, but it heralds the artist’s influential career and prominence as one of America’s great realist painters. When it was first exhibited in New York shortly after it was completed, the critics praised it as a ‘perfect visualization of a New York atmosphere’ and for its ‘completeness of expression.’ Alexander Nemerov, the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University and the incoming chair of the Department of Art & Art History, said of the painting, ‘This great picture that we now have in our collection gets singled out as a key perhaps even a first painting he made in his representative style, the style that w
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