“What has become of my world,” Jo Hopper, Edward Hopper’s wife, wrote in her diary. “It’s evaporated—I just trudge around in Eddie’s.”

  Josephine Nivison Hopper Chez Hopper oil on canvas In a 1906 portrait of Josephine Nivison, painted while she was a twenty-two-year-old student at the New York School of Art, her artist’s smock slips from her shoulder like the falling strap…