After initially experimenting with Impressionism, Edward Hopper honed his style to an austere realism, transforming images of everyday scenes into haunting depictions of modern isolation.

In 11 A.M., he contrasts the intimacy implied by a woman's nude body with the impersonal geometry of city buildings visible through an open window. But he humanizes the scene's apparent impersonality by using light streaming through the window to impart a sense of expectant longing to the woman gazing out at her urban world.

Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.