When Edward Hopper was in his early twenties, he lived in Paris for a year, and later returned on several occasions. He painted and sketched while he was there, as well as being exposed to art and artists he might not have encountered otherwise, laying the groundwork for his developing signature style.

“Hopper in Paris” was a recent show at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, consisting of paintings on loan from the extensive collection of the Whitney Museum in NY.

The Phillips Collection’s online presence for the exhibit unfortunately seems limited to one of those annoying “virtual gallery” interfaces, in which you must drag and click, drag and click, drag and click just to get a view of an individual image. I thought we had gotten rid of these gimmicks back in the 90s, but they’re apparently back thanks to the popularity of VR.

Fortunately, there are better places to view the images, such as this article on Fine Art Connoisseur, and this one on France Amérique.

Unfortunately, I can’t find the title, size or other information on this beautiful paining by turn of the 20th century American artist Daniel Ridgway Knight. [Addendum: artist James DeBoer has been kind enough to provide that information: the title is Partant pour le Travail (Leaving for Work), the painting is 32 x26″ (81 x 66 cm), and was painted in 1899.]

I found the image as part of this blog post (direct link to the image here).

Like many of Knight’s paintings, this one shows a young rural woman set against an idyllically beautiful landscape, painted with a muted palette and a keen sensibility to value relationships.

For more, see my other posts about Daniel Ridgway Knight.