1. Hopper was a teenager at the time, learning how to paint. 2. “[A Hopper expert] admitted that the discovery did not come to him as much of a surprise, given

1. Hopper was a teenager at the time, learning how to paint. 2. “[A Hopper expert] admitted that the discovery did not come to him as much of a surprise, given that, before the advent of modern art and its freedoms, artists almost always got their start by copying.“ What a silly article.