Highly reclusive and fiercely private, Edward Hopper sought to capture, in his words, "the sad desolation" of America. In Morning Sun, he depicts a lone, middle-aged woman (the model was his wife Jo) sitting on a bed in a curiously barren room and staring at nothing in particular. By presenting situations that appear unresolved and instilling in them a pervasive sense of solitude, the artist transforms the mundane and familiar into the extraordinary and enigmatic. One of the artist's colleagues described Hopper's art as "silent poetry".
				American, 1952, Oil on canvas, 28 1/8 x 40 1/8 in. Museum Purchase, Howald Fund
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