Manhattan Bridge Loop

Manhattan Bridge Loop is a 1928 oil painting by American artist Edward Hopper, depicting the Manhattan Bridge in New York City. It is on display in the Addison Gallery of American Art of the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts,Whitney Museum of American Art which received the painting as a gift from art collector Stephen Carlton Clark in 1932."Gallery View: Frank Stella Exhibits at his Alma Mater", The New York Times, November 7, 1982.

When the Addison Gallery presented a special exhibition about the painting in 1939, Hopper provided a statement and drawings for the show.Grace Gluek, "Art Review; With Artists Among Alumni, A School Can Be a Collector", The New York Times, July 16, 2004. Art historian Avis Berman has identified this painting as a significant example of how Hopper's paintings have affected the way people see New York City.Avis Berman, "Unblinking Witness to a Moody Town", The New York Times, March 27, 2005. Critic has described it as a "sombre masterpiece", "an industrial cityscape with a lone flâneur casting his long shadow on an empty sidewalk".Jackie Wullschlager, "A nation tells its (well-heeled and elegant) story", Financial Times, March 15, 2008.

See also List of works by Edward Hopper

References

External links Manhattan Bridge Loop Manhattan Bridge Loop in LIFE, April 17, 1950, p. 101.