Edward Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker, he is generally considered the foremost realist painter in the 20th-century of America. Hoppers is best known for his oil paintings, conveying a sense of melancholy or isolation, but he has also worked with etching and watercolor. His vision of reality was a selective one, reflecting his own temperament in the empty cityscapes, landscape,and isolated figures he chose to paint. Realism is what his work mainly demonstrates but not merely literal or photographic copying but instead an interpretive rendering. Edward Hopper was born in New York in the year 1882, into a middle-class family. Hopper studied at the New York School of Art from 1900 to 1906, when completing his schooling, he started working as an illustrator for a short period of time. Once Hopper’s career path ended he had made three international trips (in Europe from 1906-1910), leading to him having a great influence on the future of his work. Edward Hopper holds an exceptional status as two of the most prominent figures in early twentieth-century American art. Hopper never lacked popular appeal, however, and by the time of his death in 1967, Hopper had been reclaimed as a major influence by a new generation of American realist artists.