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Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Goldstone

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Arshile Gorky, Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia, 1932, pen and brush and black ink over graphite, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Goldstone, 1992.110.1

Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia

Arshile Gorky · 1932 · pen and brush and black ink over graphite ·  Accession ID  1992.110.1

From the bottom of a hill, we look up at a house with white siding and pine green shutters flanking several bay windows in this horizontal watercolor painting. Two powerlines rising from the street in front of us visually frame the house, and the right-hand pole reaches off the top edge of the composition. Spring-green grass and trimmed box hedges presumably flank unseen stairs leading up to the front door, which sits within a narrow, covered porch. There are two bay windows on the first floor, one on either side of the central porch. Three-sided bay windows on the second floor mirror those on the first, and the central window, over the front door, also sits within a narrower bay. The uppermost story is seen only as a pair of windows either set into a gable or dormer. The roof on the second level, around the bay windows, is slate gray, and the shadows are painted deep plum purple. Curling ironwork lines the second-story bays in front of the dormer, and a chimney rises to our right. The house is silhouetted against a pale blue sky with a tree to our right and white picket fencing descending along the line of the hill below. Next to the fence, it seems that the ground drops off to a sheer wall, perhaps to an adjacent street. Two smaller homes with pale butter-yellow siding peek over the hill in the distance, one on each side of the house. The artist signed and dated the painting with the location in blue paint in the lower right corner: “Edward Hopper Gloucester 1924.”
Edward Hopper, Haskell's House, 1924, watercolor over graphite on paperboard, Gift of Herbert A. Goldstone, 1996.130.2

Haskell's House

Edward Hopper · 1924 · watercolor over graphite on paperboard ·  Accession ID  1996.130.2

Charles Demuth, Zinnias and a Blue Dish with Lemons, 1924, watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Gift of Herbert A. Goldstone, 1996.130.1

Zinnias and a Blue Dish with Lemons

Charles Demuth · 1924 · watercolor over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1996.130.1

Charles Sheeler, Interior, 1940, tempera over graphite on prepared composition board, Gift of Herbert A. Goldstone, 1996.130.3

Interior

Charles Sheeler · 1940 · tempera over graphite on prepared composition board ·  Accession ID  1996.130.3