Edward Hopper provides few clues about the location or even the season in his haunting 1932 painting “Room in Brooklyn.”
It’s a stark, isolating view of flat, impenetrable Brooklyn rooftops and a lone figure brushed by light in a neatened bedroom.
Is she reading? Contemplating? Or perhaps she’s looking down on the sidewalk, anticipating a guest’s arrival.
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Ephemeral New York 
January 16, 2014 at 8:12 pm |
A corner room with sunshine? Divine.
January 29, 2014 at 2:21 am |
Things to love about this painting: It provides the feeling of weightlessness, with its dominance of sky blues. Yet, it is balanced by the rhythms of the marching apartment building windows and the lower-higher-lower window shades. The woman, whose face we will never see, could be doing anything: dreaming, reading, knitting, catching rays on a frigid day, or just watching the world go by. How many of us have the time to indulge in such lovely, simple pleasures? As vastlycurious says above, “Divine!”
July 7, 2017 at 6:11 am |
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