From the archive: a major Edward Hopper retrospective in London, 1981

Fourteen years after the painter passed away, William Feaver assessed his lonely legacyTo mark the first major exhibition in London of Edward Hopper’s art, 14 years after his death, the Observer’s then chief art critic William Feaver wrote an overview of his life and work (‘Master painter of America’, 1 February 1981).Today, Office at Night, one of Hopper’s best known paintings, has an even more melancholic air – at least for anyone who actually misses the off