Hopper Dies
An honorable mention that I wanted to share was the knowledge that Hopper dies about five or six years after the painting The Woman in the Sun is finished. I thought it was of interest to note that the theme of loneliness continues until his death and makes me wonder whether he felt this intense loneliness within his psyche and how that may have come out within his works up until his demise. I attached his final image Two Comedians, finished in 1966, the year before his death. It is interesting to note with this piece that this is one of the only in the years leading up to his death to contain more than one figure. Even further, it is one of the only ones to contain the depiction of a relationship between the characters that goes beyond the superficial relationship of location. Looping back to his marriage and how unhappy that tended to be throughout their time together, there was many times an insinuation that he was with her for sexual purposes the majority of their time. The painting of a man and a woman together almost moving into the foreground leaves room for an interpretation that maybe, be it possibly only in his final years, Hopper did consider Josephine his love, and this is him attempting to pull her into the light that could be interpreted as an afterlife after their deaths, which occured only a year apart. In a more insiduous reading, this could be construed as him pulling the woman he used through life for all of his desires into a seemingly eternal hell. It is unclear, but interesting to come to your own conclusions about.