Woman in the Sun 1961

Edward Hopper made this painting, called *Woman in the Sun*, with oil on canvas. It’s hard to say when exactly, but it was sometime in the middle of his career. Look at the way the muted blues and greens of the interior contrast with the bright yellow of the sunlight streaming through the window. You can almost feel the warmth on your skin, right? I can just imagine Hopper, mixing those colors, trying to capture the feeling of the sun filtering into a quiet room. And the surface, it looks like he really worked it, building up layers of paint to create this soft, almost hazy atmosphere. That gesture of the woman’s hand, slightly raised, it's like she’s reaching out to something, or maybe just caught in a moment of contemplation. You see that in a lot of Hopper’s paintings – this sense of quiet observation, of people caught between worlds. He’s always in conversation with other artists. He's part of this ongoing exchange of ideas, inspiring one another's creativity. Ultimately, painting is a form of embodied expression, embracing ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning over fixed or definitive readings.