Haskell's House

1924

Edward Hopper

Artist, American, 1882 - 1967

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.”

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over graphite on paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Herbert A. Goldstone

  • Dimensions

    overall: 34.3 x 49.5 cm (13 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.130.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York); George Bellows, New York; Mrs. George (Emma Story) Bellows, New York; (H. V. Allison, New York); Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Goldstone, New York; acquired 1996 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1924

  • Watercolors by Edward Hopper, Rehn Gallery, New York, 1924.

1933

  • Edward Hopper Retrospective Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1933, no. 33.

1934

  • Paintings by Edward Hopper, The Arts Club of Chicago, 1934, no. 24.

1939

  • The Eighteenth International Exhibition of Watercolors, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1939, no. 325.

1950

  • Edward Hopper Retrospective Exhibition, Whitney Museum, New York, 1950, no. 80, pl. 4.

1964

  • Edward Hopper, Whitney Museum, New York, 1964, no. 81.

1965

  • The Herbert A. Goldstone Collection of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, no. 46.

1997

  • Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 127.

1999

  • Edward Hopper: The Watercolors, National Museum of American Art, Washington, 1999-2000, no. 39.

2001

  • A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 51.

2007

  • Edward Hopper, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago, 2007-2008, no. 26, repro.

2017

  • American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2017, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1989

  • Levin, Gail. Hopper's Places. New York, 1989: 12-13, fig. 2.

2001

  • A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 51.

2007

  • Troyen, Carol., et al. Edward Hopper. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Art Institute of Chicago, 2007-2008. Boston, 2007: 26.

2016

  • National Gallery of Art. Highlights from the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2016: 289, repro.

2017

  • Foster, Kathleen A. American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2017: 369, no. 315.

Inscriptions

lower right in blue watercolor: Edward Hopper / Gloucester 1924

Wikidata ID

Q64557165

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