Early Sunday Morning

"There was nothing sentimental about the way he depicted the city—he painted hotel lobbies and offices, movie houses and cafeterias, and railroad-station platforms. But never skyscrapers, despite the fact that this was the era of the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, and Rockefeller Center. Of course, skyscrapers were glamorous, and Hopper had no interest in glamour or in conventional beauty."

Witold Rybczynski in Slate considers architecture in the paintings of Edward Hopper.