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Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time traces the development of realism in American art between 1900 and 1940, emphasizing the diverse ways that artists depicted the sweeping transformations in urban and rural life that occurred during this period. The exhibition highlights the work of Edward Hopper, whose use of the subject matter of modern life to portray universal human experiences made him America鈥檚 most iconic realist painter of the 20th century. Drawn primarily from the Whitney Museum鈥檚 extensive holdings, Modern Life places Hopper鈥檚 achievements in the context of his contemporaries鈥攖he Ashcan School painters with whom he came of age as an artist in the century鈥檚 first decades, the 1920鈥檚 Precisionist artists, whose explorations of abstract architectural geometries mirrored those of Hopper, and a younger generation of American Scene painters, who worked alongside Hopper in New York during the 1930s. Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time includes approximately 80 works in a range of media by Hopper and artists such as John Sloan, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Charles Demuth, Guy P猫ne du Bois, Charles Sheeler, Charles Burchfield, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Reginald Marsh, and Jacob Lawrence. The show is accompanied by a 250-page illustrated catalogue with essays by American and German scholars, produced in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title which appeared at the Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, and the Kunsthal Rotterdam in 2009-10.