Edward Hopper

American, 1882 - 1967

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Edward Hopper, Burlesque Theatre, Times Square, early 1940s, charcoal on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund), 2015.19.737

Burlesque Theatre, Times Square

Edward Hopper · early 1940s · charcoal on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.737

A buoy and a sailboat with three men and a woman tip at an angle on rolling aquamarine and azure-blue waves in this horizontal painting. The white wooden boat sails away from us toward the right side of the composition. Its unfurled sail is tinged with taupe and pale blue and attached to a pale wooden mast. The boat has a low cabin with round portholes on the side we can see. Two of the men are shirtless, tanned, and have their backs to us. One sits in the cockpit wearing a white hat with a short brim as he holds the tiller. The other man stands on the deck with his arms crossed. Beyond the standing man, the woman lies along the roof of the cabin, her head at about the height of the man’s chest. She is barefoot and lies on her stomach wearing long, blue pants and a watermelon-pink halter top and matching kerchief covering her hair. The third man stands to her right, his slender body angled toward us while holding onto the mast with one hand and rigging with the other. The woman and third man have noticeably pale skin. A buoy near the boat is battleship-gray with streaks of rust along its base and a copper-green bell inside. It floats just to the left of and tips toward the boat on a rising swell. The scene is lit by bright sunlight coming from the left side of the baby-blue sky with bands of feathery clouds, which takes up the top two-thirds of the composition. The artist signed the lower right, “EDWARD HOPPER.”
Edward Hopper, Ground Swell, 1939, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund), 2014.79.23

Ground Swell

Edward Hopper · 1939 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.79.23

A light-skinned man and woman and a collie dog are outside a white house at the edge of a pale peach field of grass in this horizontal painting. Taking up a bit more than the top right quadrant of the composition, the house is white with pale blue shadows. Near the back, left corner of the house, the door has two tall, inset frosted glass panels and a shallow roof supported with scrolling, carved corbels. The door is flanked by a bay window on the left and a single window on the right. A shadowy grove of blue-green trees grows to the left of the house with one branch reaching toward the bay window. The woman faces us and stands between the bay window and door with downcast eyes and folded arms. Her blond hair is pulled or brushed back, and she wears a snug fitting, calf-length teal-blue dress. The man sits on the doorstep so his knees are angled to our left. His near arm drapes over his left knee and his far hand reaches toward the dog, his fingers and thumb touching. He has short blond hair and a ruddy face, and he wears a white t-shirt and olive-green pants. The dog stands in the middle of the field with its body angled to our right, its pointed ears and tail pricked up as it swivels its head to look to our left. It has an auburn-brown coat with white belly, chest, and tip of the tail. There are a few areas of spearmint green in the otherwise peach-colored grass, which is tall enough to brush the belly of the dog. The artist signed the lower right, “EDWARD HOPPER.”
Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Evening, 1939, oil on canvas, John Hay Whitney Collection, 1982.76.6

Cape Cod Evening

Edward Hopper · 1939 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1982.76.6

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

A gleaming black train engine approaches a low, wide tunnel opening in this horizontal etching. Cross-hatched lines create deep shadows in some areas, and lighter hatching or parallel lines contrast with the white of the paper to create highlights. The front half of the locomotive takes up the right half of the picture. Three people who stand on our side of the rails near the left edge of the composition are less than half as tall as the train. Two men near the train wear dark uniforms and flat-topped hats with narrow bills at the front. The third man is closer to us and is cut off by the left edge of the print. He wears a dark suit, and his arms are crossed over his midsection. His hat has a ribbon around the flat-topped crown and a brim. The tunnel opening is deeply shaded, and the bridge above blocks out most of the city scape behind it. The artist signed the sheet under the bottom right corner in graphite, “Edward Hopper.”
Edward Hopper, The Locomotive, 1923, etching in black on wove paper, Amon G. Carter Foundation Fund, 2006.129.1

The Locomotive

Edward Hopper · 1923 · etching in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2006.129.1

Edward Hopper, East Side Interior, 1922, etching in black on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund), 2015.19.811

East Side Interior

Edward Hopper · 1922 · etching in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.811

Edward Hopper, The Cat Boat, 1922, etching in black, Rosenwald Collection, 1949.5.72

The Cat Boat

Edward Hopper · 1922 · etching in black ·  Accession ID  1949.5.72

Edward Hopper, East Side Interior, 1922, etching in black, Rosenwald Collection, 1949.5.71

East Side Interior

Edward Hopper · 1922 · etching in black ·  Accession ID  1949.5.71

Edward Hopper, Evening Wind, 1921, etching in black, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.4857

Evening Wind

Edward Hopper · 1921 · etching in black ·  Accession ID  1943.3.4857

Edward Hopper, Night in the Park, 1921, etching in black, Rosenwald Collection, 1963.11.119

Night in the Park

Edward Hopper · 1921 · etching in black ·  Accession ID  1963.11.119

Bibliography

1933

  • Barr, Alfred H. Edward Hopper, Retrospective Exhibition. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1933.

1971

  • Goodrich, Lloyd. Edward Hopper. New York, 1971.

1980

  • Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1980-1982. New York, 1980.

1984

  • Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper. New York, 1984.

1995

  • Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonne. 4 vols. New York, 1995.

  • Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography. 1st ed. New York: 1995.

2004

  • Wagstaff, Sheena, et al. Edward Hopper. Exh. cat. Tate Modern, London, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2004-2005. London, 2004.

2007

  • Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography. Revised ed. New York, 2007.

  • Murphy, Jessica. "Edward Hopper (1882–1967)." In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 2007. URL: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hopp/hd_hopp.htm.

  • 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.

2012

  • Ottinger, Didier, and Llorens Serra, Tomás. Hopper. Exh. cat. Museo Thyseen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Reunion des musées nationaux de Grand Palais, Paris, 2012-2013. Madrid, 2012.