One of Wyeth's favorite memories of [Edward Hopper] was an evening with Hopper and several other notable painters at the New York apartment of Robert Beverly Hale, the associate curator of American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During cocktails on the terrace, the conversation turned to abstract art, with Jackson Pollock and Stuart Davis in hot disagreement over the definition of abstraction. "Finally," Wyeth recalled, "Hopper had tapped Davis on the shoulder and pointed from the penthouse window to the incredible light of the setting sun on the buildings. 'Can you ignore that?' Hopper had asked. It stopped them, at least for a moment."

---Anne Classen Knutson, Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic