Martin Gayford

American psyche

The Royal Academy’s latest show includes several terrible paintings, but Edward Hopper’s ‘Gas’ gets deeper into the mystery of America than ‘American Gothic’ ever did

  • America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s

    Royal Academy, until 4 June

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