Visual arts talk: Hopper exhibit at SAM

In November, 12 of artist Edward Hopper’s best-known paintings will be grouped in an exhibit called “Hopper’s Women” at the Seattle Art Museum.

The exhibit will be on view from Nov. 13 through March 1 at SAM downtown, 1300 First Ave., Seattle.

Among the paintings will be Hopper’s “Chop Suey,” a work from 1929 stroked in succulent light in which a woman appears to be talking to her double at a table in a cafe. This work, along with the rest, plays out as an extended artistic narrative that evolved as Hopper studied New York women in new kinds of social settings.

Other works include “New York Restaurant” and “Compartment C, Car 293.”