"By definition, a catalogue raissonne employs methodical scholarship to gather and digest in systematic form all that can be known of an artist's work and life. In short the evidence of his intellectual and cultural life."
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Introduction -'Edward Hopper-an intimate biography' University of California Press, Berkeley, 1995
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