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Creating a play between exterior and interior space, "Apartment Houses" suggests the congestion of city dwelling. Through its angular perspective, the viewer catches a glimpse of a solitary figure engaged in domestic work in the corner of an apartment interior, but through the back window one sees another apartment building, conveying a sense of the limited space and lack of privacy of the urban world. Exhibited in and purchased from the 1923 annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy, this was Hopper's first oil to enter a museum collection.
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