No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Winner of the 2009 Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Arts and Humanities. She reported later “I guess I never met a more misanthropic grumpy individual in my life. Other significant paintings by Hopper are held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York The Des Moines Art Center and the Art Institute of Chicago.

While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.