Works on view
Watch & Listen
look closer
Think about your neighborhood. How is the place pictured here similar to or different from where you live?
Where do you see shadows in this painting?
What might be causing these shadows?
What time of day do you think it is? How can you tell?
What patterns do you notice in this painting?
If you could add two things to this painting, what would they be? Why?
Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930. Oil on canvas, 35 3/16 × 60 1/4 in. (89.4 × 153 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.426 
© Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
