Houses, Gloucester

c. 1923

Edward Hopper

Artist, American, 1882 - 1967

A cluster of houses and a rock wall are sketched with charcoal on tan-colored paper in this horizontal drawing. The rock wall stretches across the bottom of the drawing and fades where it might blend with sand or grass. One house takes up the right third of the picture, and its narrow end rests on or just behind a dip in the rock wall. The windows are shuttered. A wall or fence extends to the left, and the peaks of at least four more roofs, three with chimneys, are outlined against the blank sky. The artist signed the lower left corner, “Edward Hopper.” The number “51.1” is written in the lower right corner.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frank K. M. Rehn, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1951; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1957

  • Golden Years of American Drawings, 1905-1956, Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1957, p. 24

1964

  • Edward Hopper, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri, 1964-1965, no. 150, repro

Bibliography

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 175, no. 1192.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Edward Hopper

Wikidata ID

Q64557167

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