LETTER : American culture of the lonely individual

From Dr Irving Sandler

Sir: I can understand why Sheila Johnston would like to expropriate our great American master, Edward Hopper, for the English but we won't give him up, not to a culture that has spawned the Sex Pistols, etc, or is that not your authentic national culture?

Sincerely yours,

Irving Sandler

London, NW3

22 August

The writer is Professor of Art History at the State University of New York.