This week hear about some soon-to-close art shows around town. Today: Kim Conaty, curator of drawings and prints at the Whitney Museum, talks about the Hopper show at the Whitney, closing March 5, featuring some of the artist's iconic pieces and how he shaped our view of the city through his work. 

→Edward Hopper’s New York is on view through Sunday, March 5, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, in the meat-packing district of Manhattan.  

Edward Hopper, Approaching a City, 1946. Oil on canvas, 27 1/18 x 36 in. (68.9 x 91.4 cm). The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; acquired 1947.

(© 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Whitney Museum of American Art)

Edward Hopper, Manhattan Bridge, 1925–26. Watercolor and graphite pencil on paper. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

(Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)

Edward Hopper, Room in New York, 1932. Oil on canvas, 29 × 36 in. (73.7 × 91.4 cm).

(Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska—Lincoln; Anna R. and Frank M. Hall Charitable Trust. © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)