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Together with a handful of contemporaries, notably Charles Sheeler and Charles Burchfield, Hopper maintains a tradition which fashion can slight yet never sink. It sometimes disguises a deeply poetic view of the world in deliberately prosy realism. Still, the poetry and the passion are there to sustain it.
-* Among the five previous recipients since 1909: John Singer Sargent and John Sloan.