The exhibition catalog for this superb show we visited at the Bowdoin College Art Museum. Hopper (1882-1967) is one of America’s great realist artists.  He painted in Maine during the summers of 1914-1929, spending time in Ogunquit, Monhegan Island, Rockland, Portland, and Cape Elizabeth producing beautiful oils and watercolors.  His Monhegan paintings (32 small oils on panels) were never exhibited or listed is his catalog surfacing in the 1968 bequest from his wife to the Whitney.  Monhegan was a place where his teacher, Robert Henri and fellow students, George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, also painted.  Leon Kroll and John Sloan were other friends there.  Hopper wanted to paint ‘sunlight on the side of a house’ and with his tropes of loss and loneliness, he sharpened his skills which he applied to urban settings as well as Truro.  Interesting essay by comedian/actor Steve Martin who owns one of Hopper’s most iconic works.