(1882–1967)
a US painter and printmaker best known for his pictures of American city scenes and of the countryside and coast of New England . These often showed people alone in streets or buildings with a strange light. They include Early Sunday Morning (1930) and Nighthawks (1942), a picture of customers in an all-night diner. His wife, the painter and Hopper’s model, Josephine Nivison, left his work to the Whitney Museum of American Art .