Round these parts, I generally defer to Jeremiah Moss of Vanishing Downtown when it comes to Edward Hopper, but I was going through some photographs yesterday and stumbled upon one that immediately made me think of the painter's signature style. I don't know how much license Hopper took with depicting his city scenes -- did they necessarily relate specifically to exact addresses (hence the whole "Nighthawks" debate), or did he simply paint locations based on composites from his memory? In any case, I stumbled upon the Hopper painting below sometime in the summer of 2010 and thought it resembled a spot on Colonnade Row. Below that is a photograph I took in of my daughter Charlotte and one of her little friends, Nate, in front of that very spot on Colonnade Row. This was on their first day of school circa 2006.
It's not a complete match, of course (no columns), but I thought the similarity was sort of interesting.
ADDENDUM: Just for laughs, here's that same spot today (with Charlotte joined by her little brother Oliver)....
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