edward hopper was home.ter in 1913, he was accepted into the show at the new york armory-- an exhibition that launched modern art in the united states. european avant-garde artists such as marcel duchamp and vasily kandinsky caught the limelight, but hopper sold his first painting, sailing, for $250. at the end of 1913, he moved into greenwich village, into a rented apartment that doubled audio. he led aorked there for the rest of his fe, surrounded by simplicity in a city that celebrated power and excess. new york, raw, boisterous and largely oblivious to the rest ofhe planet, was on its way to becoming the capital of the art world. like his contemporaries, hopper had no interestn the principal pictorial motifs of jazz age new york. business in the city boomed, but hopper's career as a painter stalled; he didn't sell another painting until 1923. he began to make etchings, drawing his subject matter from the city. the subways and elevated trains that flew above the new york streets gave hopper subjects. the

(narrator) edward hopper didn't belong to a movement or a group or a school.he consummate outsider, he belonged to himself.