The Brooklyn Museum's show is broader in scope, spanning the 18th to the 20th century in the U.S. with works by such notables as William Merritt Chase, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe and Elihu Vedder, along with accomplished artists who are largely unfamiliar, even to specialists.

WSJ: Fine Lines | Frick Collection | Brooklyn Museum | by Karen Wilkin

Almost 3, 000 daily visitors saw the works of conceptual artist Hirst, beating Edward Hopper (429, 909) in 2004 and Paul Gauguin (420, 686) in 2010-11.

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It's a quality, he points out, that has inspired artists like Edward Hopper, who returned repeatedly to the empty warmth of road cafes and petrol stations in paintings like Gas and Automat.

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