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# A Glimpse of Edward and Jo Hopper in Their Studios
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/a-glimpse-of-edward-and-jo-hopper-in-their-studios/
- Published: 2014-08-01T23:23:14.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:44:08.000Z
- Description: This wonderful two-minute video will take you inside Edward and Jo Hopper's New York City studio in 1965.
- Author: Jillian Steinhauer
- Tags: In Brief, Edward Hopper, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

![Edward Hopper in his studio, 1965 (screenshot via YouTube)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/08/hopper-lead.jpg)

Edward Hopper in his studio, 1965 (screenshot via YouTube)

This wonderful two-minute video will take you inside Edward and Jo Hopper’s New York City studio in 1965\. Presumably clipped from a documentary of some kind and put on YouTube by [L’Atelier des Archives](http://base.atelierdesarchives.com/index.php?langue=EN&ref=hyperallergic.com), the black-and-white footage shows the two artists hard at work in their adjoining studios, with Hopper tackling his painting “[Chair Car](http://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-hopper/chair-car-1965?ref=hyperallergic.com),” which looks almost complete. The sound quality is awful, but you can just make out the narrator attempting to channel the somber mood of Hopper’s art in his voiceover: “The old-fashioned stove between them has been empty and cold for years.” (“He is a painter of truth,” the narrator says later.)

And then the elderly couple — Edward died two years later, Jo within the year that followed — trudge down the front steps and out to Washington Square Park. Bundled in their coats and hats, they sit on a nearly empty bench and read different pages of a single paper shared between them. They belong to their surroundings yet look slightly out of place, like they could be characters themselves in Hopper’s painted world.

*h/t* [*@johnedwinmason*](https://twitter.com/johnedwinmason/status/495280332330250240?ref=hyperallergic.com)