Edward Hopper is already a well known artist, but I feel like he gets overlooked because only one of his paintings has become overly famous (Nighthawks). I've always been a fan of Hopper because of his muted colors, and perfectly 'captured' scenes. The tone of his work is what I've always found the most intriguing, part of it is related to the zeitgeist of the time, the heavy amount of uncertainty felt in 20th century America at the beginning of World War 2. Many of his scenes, like this one are perfectly normal and 'everyday' but it as if beneath the surface of normality, something is possibly very wrong. Also present is the deep apparently loneliness of the patrons in a large city, awake when everyone else is not. The thing I love most though is the feel that Hopper seems to capture perfectly, every time. Every painting of his from this period all fit 'together' in a sense because of the that unease that they have, and to me that is something very attractive to have in works to prod the view into thinking about them more than what is in front of their face, or even the sum of the parts of a work.
There isn't a site set up for him, but there is a fairly good biography here
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