Attending to private affairs in her apartment, the anonymous plumpish woman in Night Windows is unaware of the viewer’s gaze. The painting exposes the voyeuristic opportunities of the modern American city and the contradiction it offers between access to the intimate lives of strangers and urban loneliness and isolation. The city at night is a frequent subject in Hopper’s work of the late 1920s and early ’30s. Here, the composition of three windows allows for a dramatic setting of illuminated interior against dark night.

Apparently it is a warm night with a light breeze as indicated by the left-hand side window with it’s open window and billowing curtain. It looks as though there is a single bed with its bed-head to the outside wall between the centre and far left windows. Since the reddish lighting from the lamp in the right-hand side window is not shared with the two windows to the left, it seems that the two windows on the left and centre share the same room and that between this room and the one on the right there is a wall, perhaps with a door that links to the room on the right. Perhaps this is the woman’s lounge-room

Copy painted by: Derek Kosbab Original artist: Edward Hopper
Title: Night Windows Title: Night Windows
Copy: Acrylic on canvas Original: Oil on canvas
Size of copy: 70cm x 90cm Size of Original: 73.7cm x 86.4cm
Date of copy: 2014 Date: 1928
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