Artist Jo Hopper was painted over and over again by her husband, Edward Hopper ... After all, it was her work that inspired Hopper’s colour palettes and her encouragement that started him ...

Edward Hopper’s New York, now at the Whitney Museum, is as frank and rich an exhibition as can be had on an artist so swathed in ambiguity. Hopper (1882–1967) is still the cryptic eminence ...