Office in a Small City

Edward Hopper

1953 · Oil on canvas · Modern and Contemporary Art

The Metropolitan Museum acquired this painting shortly after it was completed in late October 1953. Begun in Cape Cod over the summer and finished in New York City, it was the only oil painting Hopper produced that year. Reprising one of his signature subjects—a solitary figure, physically and emotionally detached from his surroundings and other people—it was described by the artist’s wife as "the man in concrete wall."

Artist

Edward Hopper

Date

1953

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

George A. Hearn Fund, 1953