''Manhattan Bridge Loop'' is a 1928 oil painting by American artist
Edward Hopper, depicting the
Manhattan Bridge
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in New York City. It is on display in the
Addison Gallery of American Art of the
Phillips Academy
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, which received the painting as a gift from art collector
Stephen Carlton Clark in 1932.
When the Addison Gallery presented a special exhibition about the painting in 1939, Hopper provided a statement and drawings for the show. 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. Critic Jackie Wullschlager has described it as a "sombre masterpiece", "an industrial cityscape with a lone flâneur casting his long shadow on an empty sidewalk".
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"A nation tells its (well-heeled and elegant) story"
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See also
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List of works by Edward Hopper
References
External links
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1928 paintings
Paintings by Edward Hopper
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