Edward Hopper, Girlie show, 1941

Standing in line for .... Edward Hopper Retrospective at the Grand Palais, Paris. 128 works documenting American Realism

After finishing high school, Edward Hopper (1882-1967) trained as an illustrator at the New York School of Illustrating and then went on to study at New York School of Art. To round off his skills as an advertising artist and illustrator he visited Europe and in particular Paris (1906-1910), where he completed around 30 works.

Now the city on the Seine is holding its first great retrospective of the American artist. The chronologically...