Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Gloucester Harbor,
1912, o/c, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
EDWARD HOPPER ALL AROUND GLOUCESTER, MA
There are more than 100 Edward Hopper works from Gloucester, Ma. Scroll through for an on line exhibit of Gloucester Hoppers then and now, with known addresses. 1-103 show Gloucester places. 104-107 completed during Gloucester visits (Essex, Salem,etc). A list of the Hopper Gloucester titles appears in slides at the end (go to slide 136) and links.
Presentation compiled for educational use only. Images copyright all rights reserved as indicated; contact the institutions directly regarding copyright/permissions.
Catherine Ryan, Gloucester, MA, December 2011 www.cryanaid.com
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Did You Know Edward Hopper Rode the Rails to Gloucester, MA?
Edward Hopper frequently travelled by public rail from his home and studio in New York City to travel to Gloucester, with his first visit in 1912. Disembarking from the train at the Gloucester station, he would walk straight to lodgings downtown on Middle Street. He would spend days walking the area sketching and painting. Regular trolley schedules to Gloucester neighborhoods beyond downtown were as easy as taking the El or the subway for this seasoned city dweller. Hopper clearly used any public staircases and right of ways. Turn around from one of his Gloucester views and there's likely to be the same stone steps, sidewalk, or giant granite boulder that he climbed in his time. In 1928, his last summer in Gloucester, he owned a car, a benefit from the great response and sales of his magnificent 1920s Gloucester works.
There are 100+ Hopper Gloucester works. Many of them encircle the perimeter of, and points within, Gloucester's downtown. Gloucester’s HarborWalk, an award-winning public access route throughout our historic downtown opened in the summer of 2012. Designed by Cambridge Seven Associates, the HarborWalk follows nearby many of these Gloucester Hopper sites, and makes it possible to experience Gloucester as Hopper and others did—-by train and on foot.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
1. CORNER OF MAIN AND PROSPECT, FLANAGAN'S SQUARE, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper. Haskell’s House. 1924. Watercolor. Gift of Herbert A. Goldstone, National Gallery of Art, Washington
He and his wife artist Jo Nivison called it the Wedding Cake House. Hopper's friend, artist George Bellows, bought this from Hopper's first sell out show, Rehn Gallery, 1924. Note man walking Main Street lower left.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
2. PROSPECT/MAIN STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Gloucester Mansions (Haskell House), 1923, watercolor, Art Institute of Chicago, Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection. (side view of Haskell house)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
3. 160 PROSPECT STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Parkhurst House (Captain's House), 1924, Watercolor, Private collection.
(Right next to Haskell House, Flanagan's end of Main Street)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
3A. 160 Prospect Street
Edward Hopper, entry (The Captain's House) from one of Hopper's Artist's Ledger- Book, ink, graphite on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Gift of Lloyd Goodrich.
In the Fall of 1913, Hopper began his painter's ledger--a diary itemization of his artistic output that he continued throughout his career (assisted by his wife after 1924)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
4. 6 MARCHANT STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Victorian House, 1923, watercolor, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest.
(Same area as Haskell House--turn 180 degrees from Parkhurst to see tower. Above the intersection at Main and Spring Streets).
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
5. 9 MARCHANT STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA DOWNTOWN
Edward Hopper, The Hill, 1926, watercolor over graphite on paper, Eleanor Briggs, private collection. (Marchant Street, between Prospect and Winchester, note Victorian house on right.)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
6. 9 WINCHESTER STREET, TOP WINCHESTER STAIRS, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Gloucester Roofs, 1928, watercolor over graphite on paper. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Fisher, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.(The "Winchester" public stairs from Main Street at Spring Street that connect up to Winchester Street. From there it's a quick hop to Prospect.)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
6B WINCHESTER STAIRS (not Hopper!)
John Sloan, Town Steps, 1916, oil on canvas, Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art
(Sloan depicted the steps looking up to Winchester from Main Street as they may have been in his time--wider, wood. Hopper flips the perspective looking down nearly a decade after his friend's image.)
John Sloan
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
7. CORNER OF PERKINS STREET AND MT.VERNON, PORTUGUESE HILL, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Street Corner, 1923, watercolor over graphite on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest. (close to Adam's House)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
8. 25 MT. VERNON STREET, PORTUGUESE HILL, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Adam's House, 1928, watercolor, Wichita Art Museum
(Note City Hall Tower and harbor in the distance. Hopper played with the close up--making the tower more prominent.
Located at cross section of Mt. Vernon and Ledgemont Streets)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
8B. LEDGEMONT VIEW, PORTUGUESE HILL
Turn onto Ledgemont at Mt. Vernon for a quick walk to a must see, bird's-eye panorama of Gloucester Harbor. This superb vantage was an ideal spot for many artists including Childe Hassam and Fitz Hugh Lane. Just up the hill from Adams House.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
9. MT. VERNON, PORTUGUESE HILL, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Portuguese Church, watercolor, Cornell University
Address: Just below Adam's house (below Ledgemont, before Oak; look for Our Lady of Good Voyage domes--Hopper is above Prospect Street)
Black and white photo of: Jo Nivison Hopper, Our Lady of Good Voyage, Gloucester, 1923, watercolor, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper bequest. Address: 142 Prospect Street
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
10. PORTUGUESE HILL, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, House and Harbor, 1924, watercolor on paper, private collection
Address: According to record book at time of Rehn exhibit "looking down from Portuguese quarter, harbor at right"
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
11. HERRICK COURT STAIRS, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Portuguese Quarter, 1923, watercolor on paper, Private collection
Address: Portuguese hill looking down onto harbor; climb another public staircase up from Main Street near the Crow's Nest --just a close walk from Haskell House
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
12. 98-102 PROSPECT STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Prospect Street, 1928, watercolor,
(Note Our Lady of Good Voyage double domes in the distance to help find your way.)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
13. 98-102 PROSPECT STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Sun on Prospect Street, Gloucester, MA, 1934, oil on canvas, Cincinnati Museum of Art, The Edwin and Virginia Irwin Memorial. Here Hopper returns to the same imagery from a watercolor a decade earlier (note Our Lady of Good Voyage in the distance to help find your way. From Main Street, peek up Chestnut to see the same homes.)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
13A. 98-102 PROSPECT STREET
Edward Hopper, detail (shows entry for Sun on Prospect Street) from one of Hopper's Artist's Ledger- Book, ink, graphite on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Gift of Lloyd Goodrich.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
14. CORNER OF MAPLE AND WARNER STREETS, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Abbot's House, 1926, watercolor, New Britain Museum, CT
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
15. 31 CLEVELAND STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Marty Welch's House, 1928, watercolor, Smithsonian
Marty Welch was a winner of America's Cup. The home is located just off Maplewood.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
16. CLEVELAND STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Box Factory, Gloucester, 1928, watercolor and pencil on paper. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 85.1935.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
17. NEAR GLOUCESTER MBTA TRAIN STOP
Edward Hopper, Freight Cars, Gloucester, 1928, Oil on Canvas, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; Gift of Edward Wales Root in recognition of the 25th Anniversary of the Addison Gallery
Note St. Ann's for reference; Hopper enlarges spire
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
18. NEAR GLOUCESTER MBTA TRAIN STOP GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Railroad Gates, 1928, oil on canvas, private collection
Note St. Ann for reference (Hopper emphasized spire)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
19. NEAR GLOUCESTER MBTA TRAIN ROUTE
Edward Hopper, American Village, 1912, oil on canvas, Whitney Museum of American Art
For Hopper, this imagined view and perspective was another composite; this time of New England towns as seen on his train commute back and forth between Gloucester and New York City.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
20. CORNER OF PINE AND CHURCH STREETS
Edward Hopper, Gloucester Street, 1926, oil on canvas, private collection
Also location for Hopper's UU Church. Black and white photograph for Smithsonian by Peter A. Juley & Sons
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
21. NEAR CORNER OF PINE ST/CHURCH ST, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, UU Church, 1926, watercolor, Princeton Museum. UU Church is located at 10 Church Street
Note weather vane and chimneys; contemporary photos show corners of Pine and Church Street and looking up from Gould Ct; UU looks great cropped from anywhere.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
22, 25 MIDDLE STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Davis House, 1926, watercolor, Private collection
Address: 25 Middle Street (UU directly across the street)
Hopper painted the UU also and many spires/churches/domes
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
23. 38 MIDDLE STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, House on Middle Street, 1928, watercolor, Currier Collection
Address:38 Middle Street
Note proximity to Joan of Arc/Middle Street/Stacy Blvd/ see UU
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
24. 18 WESTERN AVENUE (STACY BLVD) GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Andersons House, 1926, watercolor, MFA. Near Joan of Arc and several other Hoppers
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
25. MIDDLE OF STACY BOULEVARD, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Blynman Bridge, 1923, watercolor, Whitney Museum of American Art.
Known as the Cut Bridge, near the Fisherman at the Wheel Memorial by Leonard Craske.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
26. ANNISQUAM RIVER TRAIN BRIDGE, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Landscape with Bridge, 1923, watercolor on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
Current photo: ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. Gloucester: The outbound commuter MBTA train travels very slowly over the Annisquam River Bridge on Wednesday afternoon just after leaving the Gloucester station, February 1, 2012
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
27. 11 HOVEY STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Gloucester Houses, ca.1926-28, watercolor on paper, Private Collection.
Near Captains Row homes high above Stacy Blvd. Corner of Hovey and Hampden . Next slide, same house
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
EDWARD HOPPER all around GLOUCESTER
27A. 11 HOVEY STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Gloucester Houses, ca.1926-28, detail from one of Hopper's Artist's Ledger- Book, ink, graphite on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Gift of Lloyd Goodrich.
Catherine Ryan
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
29. ABOVE STACY BOULEVARD, CAPTAINS ROW
Edward Hopper, Summer Twilight, 1920, etching
Example of print featuring architectural details (arched windows and shutters, double chimneys, steeples, Victorian stylehouse, sloped foreground), and composition, etc that would be featured in his next body of work: the Gloucester drawings, prints, and paintings of the 1920s. Likely composite: looks like Captain's Row and Long Island.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
ETCHINGS
Though not depicting Gloucester, other Edward Hopper 1923 etchings (such as Locomotive and the Lonely House) were similar inspiration--trains and domiciles--that were the focus too for many of his Gloucester images.
29. ABOVE STACY BOULEVARD AT CENTENNIAL/ BELOW CAPTAINS ROW , GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Sultry Day, 1928, watercolor on paper, Private collection
In the distance, note Stage Fort with Tablet Rock in Hopper's drawing. The roof with the distinctive skylights is unchanged.)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
30. STAGE FORT PARK GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Circus Wagon, 1928, watercolor on paper, Private Collection
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
31. STAGE FORT PARK GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Circus Tents, c.1928, graphite/charcoal
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
32. STAGE FORT PARK, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Destroyer, watercolor, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
Turn around to the public stairs right up to Tablet Rock, off to the playground, Welcome Center, or bathrooms.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
33. 15 BEACH COURT, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, House on the Beach, 1923, Watercolor, private collection
(Nearby St. Peter's, Chamber of Commerce, and other Hoppers done on the Fort)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
34 ON COMMERCIAL STREET, THE FORT, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Italian Quarter, 1912, oil on canvas, Whitney
George Bellows bought this painting and Edward Hopper's Haskell House
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
35. COMMERCIAL STREET, THE FORT, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Untitled back streets Gloucester, 1923, watercolor, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest. Possibly Commercial Street in the direction heading into the Fort, past Neptune. Or turning right ont to Fort Sq. Note man and wheelbarrow in the lower left of the drawing.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
36. FORT SQUARE ROAD, UP PUBLIC STAIRS, THE FORT, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Houses at the Fort, 1924 watercolor, MFA
(This is Tony's House' from the back and above. If you climb the public stairs at Fort Square Road/Commercial Streets, you can glimpse the rocks by the house and see the two chimneys; with the distant harbor and over across to Lookout Hill. Climb public stairs at Ft Square Rd to get to the angle.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
37. THE FORT, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Rocks at the Fort, 1924, watercolor,
Address: Before 16 Fort
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
38. 16 FORT SQUARE ROAD, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Tony's House, 1926, watercolor, Albright Knox
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
39. 16 FORT SQUARE ROAD, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, House in the Italian Quarter, 1923, watercolor, Smithsonian
Turn around from the harbor and face "Tony's House" at the angle shown here. Note the hint of city skyline lower left, and the slight slope along the right of the harbor.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
40. THE FORT, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Gloucester Mansion, 1923 or 1924, watercolor over graphite on paper, drawing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of John T. Spaulding
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
41. GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Back Streets of Gloucester, 1928, watercolor, Whitney
Note the light fixture. The shape of the first house is in other works around town and you can look for similar styles.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
42. THE FORT, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, House on the Shore, 1924, watercolor, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
Note sand, steps, light fixture.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
43. THE FORT, BEFORE CAPE POND ICE, GLOUCESTER
Edward Hopper, Italian Quarter, 1923, watercolor on paper, Private Collection
Buildings are no longer there; although the distinct granite and foreground building foundation remain. You can see this spot leaving Cape Pond Ice to head back to Commercial Street.) Fort has a fantastic circle walk around the neighborhood, public stairs to a summit view, near Pavilion beach, a jewel of a playground on the water, the harbor, fishing boats, Ten Pound, across to Rocky Neck.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
The Fort has:
a fantastic circle walk around the neighborhood; public stairs to a summit view; proximity to Pavilion beach; a jewel of a playground on the water; and wrap around views of the harbor, fishing boats, Ten Pound Island Lighthouse and across to Rocky Neck.
44. BACKYARDS, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Outhouses, watercolor over graphite on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
Other image: Stuart Davis, Backyards, Gloucester, 1916, oil on canvas
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
GLOUCESTER HARBOR, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Gloucester Harbor, 1926, watercolor over graphite on paper, study, private collection
From a boat would offer the best views
46. GLOUCESTER HARBOR, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Gloucester Harbor, 1926, watercolor on paper, SBC Collection, Southwestern Bell Corporation, San Antonio, TX
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
47. THE HENRY FORD
Edward Hopper, The Henry Ford, 1923, etching. Top photo Stage Fort Park. Historic Photo:
Historic Charles E. Dennison photo, c.1920s, with spectators along Eastern Point watching yacht racing (Henry Ford among them),
copyright Fredrik D. Bodin, Main Street, Gloucester
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
48. THE HENRY FORD, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, drawing for the etching (note reversed image), The Henry Ford, 1923, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest.
Address: Hopper did drawings of the Henry Ford including one with figures watching the vessel for this etching. The fishing schooner was built to race and, hopefully, best the Canadian Blue Nose (no but it did win other races). There were several international races. Hopper did other etchings in 1923 that weren't Gloucester such as the Locomotive and the Lonely House. Yet they were similar subjects--trains/domiciles-- that he'd focus on in Gloucester.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
GLOUCESTER HARBOR BOATS
See boats tied up at Rose's Marine and tugs tied up at Cruiseport. Walk by docks, dry docks, and piers downtown and all along our harbor. The Gloucester HarborWalk pathway just past St. Peter's and in front of Latitude 43 is one of many good spots to view a wide range of boats.
49. GLOUCESTER HARBOR, HARBOR COVE, TOWN LANDING BOATS
Edward Hopper, Tall Masts, 1912, oil on canvas, Whitney
(red building is approximate location Cape Pond Ice)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
49a. HARBOR COVE, TOWN LANDING.
View from Gloucester HarborWalk. Joey Ciaramitaro. Creator blog Good Morning Gloucester
(shows side by side whale watching boat, fishing vessels, traps, dory, pleasure boats)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA, nocturne photo © Joey Ciaramitaro
50. GLOUCESTER HARBOR BOATS
Edward Hopper, Boat and Docks, ca. 1912, drawing, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
51 GLOUCESTER HARBOR, BOATS
Edward Hopper, Trawler, 1923, watercolor on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
52. GLOUCESTER HARBOR, BOATS
Edward Hopper Two Trawlers, Gloucester, 1923-1924, watercolor on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
53. GLOUCESTER HARBOR, BOATS
Edward Hopper, Beam Trawler, The Seal, 1923, watercolor on paper, Private collection
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
54. GLOUCESTER HARBOR, BOATS
Edward Hopper, Bow of Beam Trawler, watercolor on paper, Private collection
Note crisp details of boat and in the background yellow building with dormers and three chimneys
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
55. GLOUCESTER HARBOR, BOATS
Edward Hopper, Trawler in Dock, 1923 or 1924, watercolor on paper, Private collection
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
56. GLOUCESTER HARBOR, BOATS
Edward Hopper, Deck of Beam Trawler, 1923, Gloucester, watercolor over graphite on paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of John T. Spaulding
Hopper's specific details and nautical images appear early; he is said to have had youthful ambition to be a naval architect/marine engineer. He tried to build a catboat of his own design at age 14.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
57. GLOUCESTER HARBOR, BOATS
Edward Hopper, Funnel of Trawler, 1924, watercolor on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
BOATS IN GENERAL (not Gloucester)
Edward Hopper, Trawler and Telegraph Pole, 1926, watercolor, Princeton Museum (has UU in their collection too)
He painted many boats in the 1920s with vivid detail as he did houses/structures. He also painted a tug with black smokestack (1908) Whitney collection, and sailboats and other boats, Long Island and elsewhere prior to 1912.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
58. GOOD HARBOR BEACH
Edward Hopper, Good Harbor Beach, Bass Rocks, c.1923-28, watercolor on paper, private collection
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
58A. GOOD HARBOR BEACH
Edward Hopper, Gloucester Beach- Bass Rocks, 1923, Private Collection
Shown here is the entry for Edward Hopper, detail from one of Hopper's Artist's Ledger- Book, ink, graphite on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Gift of Lloyd Goodrich.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
59. GOOD HARBOR BEACH
Edward Hopper, Jo Sketching, 1923, watercolor, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
footbridge side of beach
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
60. GOOD HARBOR BEACH
Edward Hopper, House Above River, 1924, watercolor on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest . You can see this view near Good Harbor Beach Club
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
61. GOOD HARBOR BEACH
Edward Hopper, Briar Neck (Good Harbor) , Gloucester, 1912, oil on canvas, Whitney
Briar Neck, similar coves below Salt Island Road
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
62. MARSH, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, New England House, 1923, watercolor on paper, private collection
Address: Perhaps, looking down from Old Nugent Farm towards Good Harbor. Note the stretch of marsh below and whisper of ocean top left drawing. (This drawing has been described as "riverview" area, which could mean Poles Hill area or Mill, too. Hopper titled Bass Rocks House above a River so it suggested Nugent area, too.)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
See previous slide
Left photo shows vista looking down from Old Nugent across to Bass Rocks; second photo is looking back over the marshes by Stop and Shop, towards Nugent/boulders. Hopper may have climbed there for his image.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
63. NEAR GOOD HARBOR BEACH; OLD NUGENT FARM, GLOUCESTER, MA
Dead Trees, 1923, watercolor on paper, The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, AL
according to artist recollections, near a pig farm
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
64. EAST GLOUCESTER, ABOVE CRIPPLE COVE
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Gloucester Harbor, 1912, o/c, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Looking across to Portuguese Hill from East Gloucester hills by Herrick/Hammond, whisper of St. Ann's, sails, boats below, rooftops, and a bit of Gorton's building.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
65. EAST GLOUCESTER, ABOVE CRIPPLE COVE
Edward Hopper, Gloucester Factory and Harbor, 1924, private collection
A bird's-eye view looking down on what was Gorton's smokehouse-- view from Hammond/Herrick area (now private properties)--on to what is now Good Morning Gloucester today. You can just see the left edge of Cripple Cove in the drawing, near the green.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
66. EAST GLOUCESTER, EASTERN POINT
Edward Hopper, Eastern Point, 1923, watercolor, private collection
Eastern Point Lighthouse, from the water side (bell no longer there)
Perhaps Hopper's first watercolor
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
67. LIGHTHOUSE MOTIF
Edward Hopper, (lighthouse),1915, etching, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest. Impression pulled posthumously. Maine, but possibly a bit Eastern Point, too.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
68. 2-4 CLARENDON STREET, ROCKY NECK, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, The Mansard Roof, 1923, watercolor over graphite on paper, Brooklyn Museum,
Museum Collection Fund 23.100
Wonson and Clarendon Streets,Rocky Neck. It's nice to walk to it. Public parking is available. You can also view it by boat--closer to Hopper's angle, or from a distance. Here a photo view from the water via the Fort Downtown looking across to Rocky Neck. You can see it looking down from Mt. Pleasant or Banner Hill area, too.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
68A. 2-4 CLARENDON STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, photo of The Mansard Roof home from the street side (previous slide shows from the water side)
Wonson/Clarendon Streets, Rocky Neck, East Gloucester
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69. 2-4 CLARENDON STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Captain Gardener K. Wonson, charcoal drawing, Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, TX
Address: drawing of Mansard Roof from a different perspective (photo here is from the street--would need to be closer to water and that's private property--look when you are on a boat)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
70. EAST GLOUCESTER, 172-174 EAST MAIN STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Double House, 1925, drawing, Minneapolis Museum of Art
Near the North Shore Arts Association.
70C. DOUBLE HOUSE AS THEME
Edward Hopper. Second Story Sunlight. 1960. Oil on canvas. Private collection. Three decades after Gloucester works, see Hopper's iconography such as double architecture/landscape horizontal/trees/Jo. Location too is composite; this is not one specific place as with some of his work from earlier decades--rather composite of all and/or imagined.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
71. 164 EAST MAIN STREET, GLOUCESTER HOUSES AND CORNER
Edward Hopper, (Houses at Gloucester; 164 East Main Street), c.1923-28, charcoal and graphite on paper, 18 x 20
72. LANDSCAPE: HILLS AND TREES, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Landscape: Hills and Trees, 1926, watercolor, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest ( thought to be East Gloucester)
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
73. TREES, EAST GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Trees East Gloucester, oil on canvas, Private Collection
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
73. Vintage postcard dated 1919, Patches Willows, East Gloucester, MA, collection Catherine Ryan
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
74. LANDSCAPE: HILLS AND TREES, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Landscape with Rocks, 1924, watercolor over graphite on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest. Old Nugent? Dogtown?
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75. UNTITLED LANDSCAPE, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, (landscape), watercolor on paper, unfinished, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest. Thought to be East Gloucester
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
76. APPLE TREE, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Apple Tree, 1923, watercolor, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
Exact address unknown --possibly Old Nugent, Dogtown
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77. OAK GROVE CEMETERY, NEAR 52-54 POPLAR STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Cemetery in Gloucester (Oak Grove), c.1923-28, conte crayon on paper, Gift of Robert L. and Elizabeth French, 2009. Collection of Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA link
Address: Oak Grove far side; Combine with trip to CAM's White-Ellery House or heading on way to Annisquam. Note: distinct grave w/leaf LR and tree stump (thanks George), branches of second tree, homes in background, and granite post still visible.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
78. 334 WASHINGTON STREET, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Riverdale, 1928, watercolor with graphite on white, medium weight, roughly textured wove paper. Brooklyn Museum. Bequest of Anita Steckler. 2003.1 Located after Addison Gilbert Hospital, just before Wheeler's Point, note Pole Hill
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
79. CAPE ANN GRANITE, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper,Cape Ann Granite
Address: "in back of a summer colony called Riverview" --maybe not and it's Dogtown or Old Nugent or Annisquam..
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79A. CAPE ANN GRANITE, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, excerpt of Cape Ann Granite entry from one of Hopper's Artist's Ledger- Book, ink, graphite on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Gift of Lloyd Goodrich.
Address: "in back of a summer colony called Riverview" --maybe not and it's Dogtown or Old Nugent or Annisquam?
This detail shows a catalogue cut out with a b/w reproduction of Hopper's Cape Ann Granite opposite his entry.
The painting is in a private collection.
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80. CAPE ANN PASTURE, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Cape Ann Pasture, 1928, watercolor on paper, Yale University Art Gallery, CT, anonymous gift 1930
Address: "in the back of a summer colony called Riverview" perhaps by Pole's Hill, Dogtown, or from Nugent
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80A. Location not GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, American Landscape, 1920, etching
(impressions of this print are found in several museums including the Whitney)
Note horizontals and architecture; see cows in Cape Ann Pasture (previous slide)
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81. 505 WASHINGTON STREET, GLOUCESTER,MA
Edward Hopper, Hodgkin's House, Washington Street, 1928, oil on canvas, private collection
Heading to Annisquam section of Gloucester, before Gee Ave
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Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
82. Looking across Centennial and the Newell Stadium and Gloucester high school
Edward Hopper, House by 'Squam River, Gloucester, 1926, watercolor over graphite on paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Bequest of John T. Spaulding.
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83. 98 WIGWAM ROAD, ANNISQUAM SECTION OF GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Houses of 'Squam Light, Gloucester, 1923, watercolor over graphite on paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of John T. Spaulding.
Annisquam Lighthouse off Norwood Heights
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Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
84. 98 WIGWAM ROAD, GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Squam Light, 1912, oil on canvas
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Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
85. LANES COVE, LANESVILLE SECTION OF GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, Shacks Lanesville, 1923, Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, from the James C. and Barbara J. Koppe Collection.
Photograph: see Save our Shack, Gloucester Daily Times, April 14, 2012, last Scandinavian fish shack still standing to be restored by community and Good Morning Gloucester April 11, 2012
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Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
86. 7-9 EASTERN AVENUE (just before corner with Main)
Edward Hopper, Gloucester Houses, 1923, watercolor on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
In Gloucester, Hopper painted everything: trawlers, shacks, cottages, great homes, boulders, outhouses, landscapes, factories, and a portrait of his new wife, Jo.
87. GLOUCESTER JO SLEEPING
Edward Hopper, Jo Sleeping, 1924, watercolor on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
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88. GLOUCESTER (nude)
Edward Hopper, (Untitled- Reclining Nude) c. 1923-28, watercolor on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper bequest. Jo/pillows
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89. GLOUCESTER SAILBOAT WITH FIGURES
Edward Hopper, Sailboat with Figures (Docked Boat), 1923, watercolor and graphite on paper, unfiinished, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
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90. GLOUCESTER HOUSE AND BOATS
Edward Hopper, House and Boats, 1923, watercolor, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN. Gift of the Benwood Foundation 1976.3.17
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91. GLOUCESTER BEACH COTTAGE NEAR ROCKS
Edward Hopper, Beach Cottage Near Rocks, 1923, watercolor on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art , Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
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92. GLOUCESTER HOUSE BY THE SEA
Edward Hopper, House by the Sea, 1923 or 1924, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
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93. GLOUCESTER GROUP OF HOUSES
Edward Hopper, Group of Houses, 1923-24, watercolor and graphite on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
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94. GLOUCESTER BELL TOWER?
Edward Hopper, Bell Tower, 1923, watercolor, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
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94A. photo of East Gloucester Fire Station on Mt. Pleasant Avenue, note style of bell tower.
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95. GLOUCESTER HOUSE WITH FENCE
Edward Hopper, 1923, House With Fence, watercolor on paper, Private collection
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96. GLOUCESTER HOUSE WITH FENCE
Edward Hopper, House with a Fence, 1923, drawing, private collection
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97. HOUSE AND TREES GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, House and Trees, drawing, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
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98. GLOUCESTER HOUSE WITH BAY WINDOWS
Edward Hopper, House with Bay Window, 1923, watercolor on paper, Private collection
Address: perhaps East Gloucester, but there are many other possible locations
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99. GLOUCESTER WHITE HOUSE WITH DORMER
Edward Hopper, White House with Dormer, 1923-24, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
Possibly East Gloucester
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100. GLOUCESTER HOUSES
Edward Hopper, Houses, 1924, w/c and graphite on paper, unfinished, Whitney Museum of Amercian Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
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101. GLOUCESTER FACTORY AND SHED
Edward Hopper, Factory and Shed, 1928, watercolor, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
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102. GLOUCESTER HOUSE AND ROCKS
Edward Hopper, Rocks and House, 1924, watercolor over graphite on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
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103. GLOUCESTER HOUSE WITH TOMBSTONES
Edward Hopper, Houses with Tombstones, 1926, watercolor/graphite, unfinished, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
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104. ROCKAWAY HOTEL, ROCKY NECK YACHT CLUB, OAKES COVE EAST GLOUCESTER
Edward Hopper, Small Town on Cove, 1924, watercolor on paper, unfinished, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
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104B. East Gloucester, walkway, Rockaway Hotel, Rocky Neck
“Rocky Neck, View of Rockaway Hotel”, © 1957 black and white photo by Peggy Sibley courtesy of the Sibley family with, special thanks to artist, Liz Fletcher
104B (con't)
ROCKAWAY HOTEL, ROCKY NECK YACHT CLUB, OAKES COVE EAST GLOUCESTER
© 1957 black and white photo by Peggy Sibley courtesy of the Sibley family with, special thanks to artist, Liz Fletcher
105. Gloucester or other NEW ENGLAND QUARRY
Edward Hopper, Rocky Shore and Water, c.1923-24, watercolor on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest. Looks like many quarries such as Halibut Point.
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NEW ENGLAND QUARRY
Edward Hopper, Rocks, 1926, Watercolor, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
Address: thought to be Maine; looks like many Gloucester spots too. Hopper had done rock/coast Maine pre 1920 and again after Gloucester.
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NORTH SHORE, ESSEX, MA
Edward Hopper, Essex Farmhouse, oil on canvas
Address: Rt. 133 Essex, Ma
Not of Gloucester, but done at same time as other Gloucester work
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NORTH SHORE, ESSEX, MA
Edward Hopper, Farm at Essex, oil on canvas
Image below is a detail from Hopper's Artist's Ledger- Book, ink, graphite on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Gift of Lloyd Goodrich. (also cut out of black and white reproduction of Farm at Essex inserted at that page)
Address: Not of Gloucester, but done at same time as other Gloucester work
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NORTH SHORE, SALEM, MA
Edward Hopper, Salem, drawing, Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
Address: Not of Gloucester, but done at same time as other Gloucester work
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Edward Hopper, 5AM, 1937, oil on canvas, Wichita Art Museum
Address: composite icons along East Coast from MA to ME; see repeated elements in the Salem factory drawing as compared with painting, and note Ten Pound Island lighthouse from Stacy Blvd and Stage Fort --where Winslow Homer stayed.
Wichita Art Museum also has Hopper's Gloucester drawing of Adam's House (1928), Conference at Night (1949) and Sunlight on Brownstones (1956)--one from each of 4 decades.
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper All Around Gloucester MA
Edward Hopper, detail from one of Hopper's Artist's Ledger- Book, ink, graphite on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Gift of Lloyd Goodrich.
This detail an excerpt indicating 5AM
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Edward Hopper, detail from one of Hopper's Artist's Ledger- Book, ink, graphite on paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, Gift of Lloyd Goodrich.
Entry for Bootleggers, completed 1924 or 1925, height of Prohibition and "scofflaws", many composite compositional and architectural elements. Nyack, Cape Cod, Maine, Gloucester...many of Hopper's works were painted in his New York studio and carried favorite motifs. Bootleggers is in the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; the ledger is in the Whitney's collection.
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Edward Hopper, The Bootleggers, 1925, oil on canvas, Currier Museum of Art , Manchester,
NH. Museum purchase: Currier Funds, 1956.
3 chimneys, exaggerated a bit to 3 crosses; house structure (from Paris to Nyack to MA to Maine), landscape, boat, figures, all-- composite Hopper iconography.
More boats: see Drawing (Docked Boat or Sailboat with figures slide 88) and The Cat Boat, 1922 etching (not Gloucester: Gloucester meets NY with a Homer pitch and the textured shore across the water--the view across the Hudson from Nyack), later the watercolor Shipyard, Rockland, 1926 (ME), and 1929 drawings Coast Guard boats (ME)
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NOT GLOUCESTER, MA
Edward Hopper, sketch for diner in "Nighthawks", collection Whitney Museum of American Art, Josephine N. Hopper Bequest
Horizontals, preliminary blocking, see how Hopper applies these elements similarly in the works from Gloucester.
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, o/c, Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art collection
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titles of works done in Gloucester, MA
1912
American Village, o/c, Whitney
(composite of/from train, Gloucester to NYC)
Briar Neck, Gloucester, o/c, Whitney
Tall Masts, Gloucester, o/c, Whitney
Italian Quarter, o/c, Whitney
Squam Light (Annisquam lighthouse), o/c
1923
Eastern Point Lighthouse, wc, perhaps 1st one, private
Dead Trees, Warner collection, Tuscaloos, AL
Beam Trawler, The Seal, w/c, private collection
Deck of Beam Trawler, w/c, MFA
Gloucester Mansion, w/c, Art Institute of Chicago
Houses of Squam Light, w/c, MFA
Shacks at Lanesville, w/c, private collection
Haskell's House, w/c, National Gallery of Art
New England House, w/c, private
Italian quarter, w/c, private collection
House in Italian quarter, w/c, Smithsonian
House with a Bay Window, w/c, private collection
1923
House With a Fence, private
House With Fence, Whitney
Mansard, w/c, Brooklyn Museum
Portuguese Church, w/c, private collection
Portuguese Quarter, w/c, private collection
Apple Trees, w/c, Whitney
House and Boats, w/c, Hunter Museum
Victorian House, w/c, Whitney
Street Corner, w/c, Whitney
Houses on Beach,Gloucester, w/c, Rita and Daniel
Fraad now in museum
Group of Houses, w/c, Whitney Museum
Back Street Gloucester, w/c, Whitney
White House with Dormer Window, w/c, Whitney
Gloucester Houses, w/c, Whitney
Outhouses, w/c, Whitney
House by the Sea, w/c, Whitney
(Bell Tower, w/c, Whitney, Gloucester)
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titles of works done in Gloucester, MA
1923
The Pine Tree, wc, Private
(Small town on Cove, w/c, Whitney)
Jo Sketching, w/c, Whitney
Blynman Bridge, w/c, Whitney
Trawler in Dock, w/c,Private
Trawler, w/c, Whitney
Two Trawlers, w/c, Whitney
Destroyer and Rocky Shore, w/c, Whitney
Rocky Shore and Water, w/c, Whitney
Sailboat with Figure, w/c, Whitney
(Railroad Crossing, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
The Henry Ford, etching, Art Institute of Chicago
1924
Houses, Whitney
Bow of Beam Trawler, w/c, Private
Funnel of Trawler, s/c, Private
Gloucester Beach, Bass Rocks, w/c, Private
Jo Sleeping, w/c, Whitney
House on the Shore, w/c, private
Gloucester Factory and House, w/c, Private
Gloucester Mansion, w/c, MFA
Haskell House, National Gallery
House and Harbor, Private Collection
Parkhurst's House, Private Collection
Rocks at the Fort, Private Collection
Landscape with Rocks, Whitney
Beach cottage Near Rocks, Whitney
Rocks and House, Whitney
House Above a River, Whitney
Double House Gloucester, Whitney
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titles of works done in Gloucester, MA
1925
Double House, Gloucester, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Bootleggers, 1924 OR 1925, see ledger Whitney;
see painting Currier Museum
1926
Gloucester Street, private collection
Abbots House, New Britain Museum, CT
Andersons House, MFA
Davis House, Private Collection
Tony's House, Albright Knox
UU Church, Princeton Museum
The Hill, Private Collection
Houses by Squam, MFA
Gloucester Harbor, Southwester Bell, San Antonio, TX
Trees, East Gloucester, Private
Landscape, w/c, Whitney
Landscape: Hill and Trees, w/c, Whitney
Houses with Tombstones, w/c, Whitney
Houses on a Hill, w/c, Private
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titles of works done in Gloucester, MA
1928
Cape Ann Granite, Private Collection
Freight Car, Addison Gallery of Art, Phillips
Hodgkins House, Private collection
Adams House, Wichita Art Museum
Back Street Gloucester, Yale
Box Factory, Gloucester, w/c, MoMA
Cape Ann Pasture, w/c, Yale
Circus Wagon, w/c, Private Collection
Gloucester Roofs, Private collection
House on Middle Street, Currier
House at Riverdale, private collection
Marty Welch's House, w/c, private collection
Prospect Street, w/c, Smithsonian
Railroad Gates, Private Collection
Factory and Shed, w/c, Whitney
Sultry Day, w/c, Private Collection
1934
Sun On Prospect Street, o/c, Cincinnati Art Museum
c.1920s
Cemetery (Oak Grove), Gloucester, drawing, Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA
(Mansard House)/(Wonson house), Gloucester, drawing, Amon Carter Museum of Art, Ft. Worth, TX
Houses at Gloucester, no date, charcoal/graphite, Private Collection
Circus Tents, c.1928, charcoal/graphite
(Reclining Nude), c.1923-28, watercolor, Whitney
list is incomplete and will be added/updated
EDWARD HOPPER IN GLOUCESTER, MA
"Hopper's pictures synthesize myriad observations in a way that eludes the single photograph," Gail Levin
Gail Levin laid the foundation for subsequent contemporary study of Edward Hopper. She documented photos since the 1970s of side-by-side comparisons of Hopper places with Hopper works. She did complete catalogue raisonnees for all the media while a curator for the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Some of Hoppers images are composites. His wife, artist Jo Nivison, when asked to identify the specific house for a painting remarked: "He did it out of his head. He had seen so many of them." She also added to his Artist-Ledger books approximate dates when they were painted in the studio in part to underscore this point.
1923 was Gloucester's tercentenary. If you were an artist back then, the social media of the time beckoned you to Gloucester for possible exhibits, audience, commissions, and sales. Hopper's prints infused his signature style by the time he came back to Gloucester in 1923. He mastered light long before.
Hopper had champions before coming to Gloucester including: Guy Pene du Bois, Lloyd Goodrich, John Sloan, George Bellows (who bought Haskell's House from the important Rehn show after Hopper's 1923 Gloucester output), Martin Lewis, and his wife and fellow Robert Henri student, Jo.
In MA, stop into the Cape Ann Museum and the MFA for more, and visit Truro on the other Cape. Other curators, historians, and writers include: Virginia Mecklenburg, David Kiehl, Barbara Haskell, Avis Berman, Adam Weinberg, curators from the Art Institute and MFA, and Carl Little.
- Catherine Ryan, December 2011
LINKS for more about Edward Hopper
GLOUCESTER MA HarborWalk
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA link
NYACKhttp://www.edwardhopperhouse.org/exhibitions.html
SMITHSONIANhttp://americanart.si.edu/hopper/
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO selected chronology
BOWDOINhttp://www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/hoppers-maine/maine-locations.html
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hopperhappens/hopper-happens-a-live-art-celebration-edward-hoppe
Rocky Neck Art Trail Gloucester
NPR All Things considered Gloucester's Inspiration for Artist Edward Hopper 2007 MFA exhibit
Gloucester Daily Times press for MFA 2007 exhibit
Edward Hopper all around Gloucester MA
more links
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
http://whitney.org/Search?query=edward+hopper
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
http://www.mfa.org/search/collections?keyword=edward+hopper
2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Hopper retrospective in partnership with National Gallery and Art Institute; with essays by: Carol Troyen, MFA; Judith Barter Art Institute; Elliot Bostwick Davis MFA; Janet L.Comey, MFA; Ellen Roberts, Art Institute
CAPE ANN MUSEUM, GLOUCESTER, MA
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA link
NY Times Cape Cod as Edward Hopper saw it
about his wife Jo, a successful painter when they met
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2004/apr/25/art1
Jo taught public school, NYC, 1906-1921
Gail Levin "The Rediscovery of Jo Nivison Hopper"
Presentation compiled for educational use only. Images all rights reserved; contact the institutions directly regarding copyright/permissions. Contemporary snapshots by Catherine Ryan unless credited otherwise
Catherine Ryan, Gloucester, MA, December 2011
Most structures that Hopper painted are still standing and catalogue the rich architectural legacy all around us. So many homes and places in Gloucester exhibit Hopper like details: double chimneys, double frames, bays or doors, arched windows, repeated dormers, mansard or slanted roofs.
Hopper-esque all around Gloucester: Cape Cod, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Victorian--we're surrounded by a catalogue of New England architecture (including styles Hopper didn't depict)
Hopper -like details abound throughout Gloucester
Hopper like details on many homes in Gloucester