Editing Edward Hopper (section)

== In popular culture ==

In addition to his influence (see {{slink||Influence}}), Hopper is frequently referenced in popular culture.

In 1981, ''Hopper's Silence'', a documentary by Brian O'Doherty produced by the Whitney Museum of American Art, was shown at the [[New York Film Festival]] at [[Alice Tully Hall]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Lor. |date=October 21, 1981 |title=Film Reviews: Hopper's Silence |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>

Austrian director [[Gustav Deutsch]] created the 2013 film ''Shirley – Visions of Reality'' based on 13 of Edward Hopper's paintings.<ref name="phaidon">{{cite web |title=Edward Hopper comes to the silver screen |url=https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2013/february/11/edward-hopper-comes-to-the-silver-screen/ |publisher=Phaidon Press |date=February 11, 2013 |access-date=April 3, 2025}}</ref>

Other works based on or inspired by Hopper's paintings include Tom Waits's 1975 album ''[[Nighthawks at the Diner]]'', and a 2012 series of photographs by [[Gail Albert Halaban]].<ref name="phaidon" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Bosman |first=Julie |title=The Original Hoppers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/07/22/magazine/hopper-houses.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 20, 2012 |access-date=April 3, 2025}}</ref>

In the book (1985, 1998) and traveling exhibition called ''Hopper's Places'', [[Gail Levin (art historian)|Gail Levin]] located and photographed the sites for many of Hopper's paintings. In her 1985 review of a related show organized by Levin, Vivien Raynor wrote in ''The New York Times'': "Miss Levin's deductions are invariably enlightening, as when she infers that Hopper's tendency to elongate structures was a reflection of his own great height."<ref>{{cite news |last=Raynor |first=Vivian |title=Art: The Unusual, The Instructive And The Mysterious At Rutgers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/20/nyregion/art-the-unusual-the-instructive-and-the-mysterious-at-rutgers.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 20, 1985 |access-date=April 3, 2025}}</ref>

New wave band [[Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark]]'s 1985 album ''[[Crush (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album)|Crush]]'' features artwork inspired by several Hopper paintings, including ''Early Sunday Morning'', ''Nighthawks'', and ''Room in New York''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nevermindthebuspass.co.uk/classic-album-covers-crush-omd/|title=Classic album covers: Crush–OMD|access-date=May 28, 2017|publisher=Never Mind the Bus Pass}}</ref> The band's 2013 single "Night Café" was influenced by ''Nighthawks'' and mentions Hopper by name. Seven of his paintings are referenced in the lyrics.

The [[New York City Opera]] staged the East Coast premiere of [[Stewart Wallace]]'s "Hopper's Wife"—a 1997 [[chamber opera]] about an imagined marriage between Edward Hopper and the [[gossip columnist]] [[Hedda Hopper]]—at Harlem Stage in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bernheimer |first=Martin |title=Hopper's Wife, New York City Opera, New York—'Ramblings and Rumblings' |url=https://www.ft.com/content/8da5d142-1048-11e6-91da-096d89bd2173 |work=[[Financial Times]] |date=May 2, 2016 |access-date=April 3, 2025}}</ref>

Irish novelist [[Christine Dwyer Hickey]] published a novel, ''The Narrow Land'', in 2019 in which Edward and Jo Hopper were central characters.<ref>{{cite news |last=O'Connor |first=Joanne |title=Christine Dwyer Hickey: I lost a kidney and gained a novel |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/christine-dwyer-hickey-i-lost-a-kidney-and-gained-a-novel-1.3811160 |work=[[The Irish Times]] |date=March 2, 2019 |access-date=April 3, 2025}}</ref>

[[Paul Weller]] included a song named "Hopper" on his 2017 album ''[[A Kind Revolution]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Starkey |first=Arun |title=Edward Hopper, the realist painter that inspired a classic Paul Weller song |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/edward-hopper-the-realist-painter-that-inspired-a-classic-paul-weller-song/ |work=[[Far Out (website)|Far Out]] |date=October 15, 2022 |access-date=April 3, 2025}}</ref>