East Side Interior

Edward Hopper turned to interior subjects many times throughout his career, partly out of respect for 17th-century Dutch art. East Side Interior follows very closely a drawing he created of the same subject. Notoriously reticent to comment on his work, the artist wrote of this view of a woman looking out the window while sewing: "There is little to tell about it. It was entirely improvised from memories of glimpses of rooms seen from the streets in the eastside in my walks in that part of the city. No implication was intended with any ideology concerning the poor and oppressed. The interior itself was my main interest-simply a piece of New York, the city that interests me so much…."