Most art museum and art history sites are loaded with images and their captions. And just as every picture tells a story, so does its caption. In fact, you can learn almost everything about a work simply by reading its caption line by line.
That which follows is a step-by-step tutorial to decode the sometimes quite numerous elements of an image caption, along with explanations of why each is (1) included and (2) important.
The image in this example was originally published in the review entitled Holiday in Reality: Edward Hopper, written by Correspondent for Museums and Special Exhibitions Gail S. Myhre. (And yes, that clown is smoking a cigarette.)
