# Meet the artist who inspired Edward Hopper

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**Created:** [February 20, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-artist-who-inspired-edward-hopper/997799 "2024-02-20T02:22:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
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We all know Hopper’s _Nighthawks_.  
But did you know his teacher & inspiration, Martin Lewis?  
[CHECK OUT SOME OF HIS URBAN ART. SHRIEKS OF URBAN ISOLATION. (LINK)](https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/12/20/moonlight-etchings-of-the-forgotten-artist-who-taught-edward-hopper/?utm_source=drip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weekend+Conversation+Starters&utm_content=Weekend+Conversation+Starters)

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-artist-who-inspired-edward-hopper/997799/2 "2024-02-20T04:52:01Z")

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Wow. Really nice! So much a product of their time, not just in the fashions, but in the architecture and the focus on streetlights, which at that power and those surface textures must still have been a relatively new experience to record in such a unique way.

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**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-artist-who-inspired-edward-hopper/997799/3 "2024-02-21T03:32:43Z")

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> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#):
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> Martin Lewis

Was his middle name “And”?