Despite knowing the full-colored truth, I’ve always pictured the 1930s and 1940s in black and white. Laura, The Big Sleep, The Killers, Shadow of a Doubt, and countless other examples of classic American film noir define that era visually for me with their stark contrasts of dark and light paralleling the paradoxes of American society of itself. The starkly titled exhibition Hopper Drawing, which runs at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City through October 6th, examines how Edward Hopper, the preeminent painter of that era, used drawing to develop iconic works such as Nighthawks and New York Movie. As familiar as Hopper’s signature works are, seeing them in black and white through Hopper’s undervalued draftsmanship is seeing them anew. Please come over to Picture This at Big Think to read more of
"Edward Hopper’s Noir Drawings."
[Image: Edward Hopper (1882–1967).
Study for Nighthawks, 1941 or 1942.
Fabricated chalk and charcoal on paper; 11 1/8 x 15 in. (28.3 x 38.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;
purchase and gift of Josephine N. Hopper by exchange 2011.65.]
[Many thanks to the Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, for providing me with the image above and other
press materials related to Hopper Drawing, which runs through October 6, 2013.] 
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