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Western Motel

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Western Motel
ArtistEdward Hopper
Year1957 (1957)
MovementAmerican Realism
SubjectWoman in hotel room
Dimensions30 5/8 x 50 1/2 in. (77.8 x 128.3 cm) framed: 37 1/4 x 57 1/4 x 3 in. (94.6 x 145.4 x 7.6 cm)
LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven
OwnerYale University, gifted by Stephen Carlton Clark

Western Motel is a 1957 oil painting by the American Realist artist Edward Hopper. The work depicts a sunlight, open-plan hotel room; the painting is noted for its elegant simplicity and subtle sense of foreboding.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Artist: Edward Hopper, American, 1882–1967 : Western Motel". Artgallery.yale.edu. Retrieved 29 November 2018.