id: 173965 accession number: 1930.851 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.851 updated: 2023-02-04 15:38:44.385000 Lighthouse Village (also known as Cape Elizabeth), 1929. Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967). Watercolor with gouache over graphite; sheet: 40.5 x 63.3 cm (15 15/16 x 24 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1930.851 © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY title: Lighthouse Village (also known as Cape Elizabeth) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1929 creation date earliest: 1929 creation date latest: 1929 current location: creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection copyright: © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY --- culture: America, 20th century technique: watercolor with gouache over graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - American 20th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Levin W-228 --- CREATORS * Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 40.5 x 63.3 cm (15 15/16 x 24 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower right, in black gouache: Edward Hopper / Cape Elizabeth translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: An Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, and Etchings by Edward Hopper opening date: 1937-03-11T05:00:00 An Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, and Etchings by Edward Hopper. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (organizer) (March 11-April 25, 1937). title: American Watercolor and Winslow Homer opening date: 1945-02-27T04:00:00 American Watercolor and Winslow Homer. Walker Art Center (organizer) (February 27-March 23, 1945); The Brooklyn Museum (April 3-May 1, 1945); The Detroit Institute of Arts (May 15-June 2, 1945). title: Watercolor USA: A Survey of Watercolor from 1870 to 1946 opening date: 1946-04-24T05:00:00 Watercolor USA: A Survey of Watercolor from 1870 to 1946. Walker Art Center (organizer) (April 24-May 28, 1946); National Gallery of Art (May 17-August 1, 1946). title: Amerikanische Meister des Aquarells opening date: 1949-10-02T05:00:00 Amerikanische Meister des Aquarells. Albertina, Wien, Austria (organizer) (October 2-December 6, 1949). title: Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition opening date: 1950-02-11T05:00:00 Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (organizer) (February 11-March 26, 1950); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (April 13-14, 1950); The Detroit Institute of Arts (June 4-July 2, 1950). title: Edward Hopper opening date: 1964-09-29T04:00:00 Edward Hopper. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 29-November 29, 1964). title: American Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00 American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Edward Hopper's Maine: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, 1914-1929 opening date: 2011-07-15T00:00:00 Edward Hopper's Maine: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, 1914-1929. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME (organizer) (July 15-October 16, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Edward Hopper. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (September 29 - November 29, 1964). * Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (February 11 - March 26, 1950); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (April 13 - May 14, 1950); Detroit Institute of Arts (June 4 - July 2, 1950). * Amerikanische Meister des Aquarells. Albertina, Vienna (October 2 - December 6, 1949). * Acquarela - E.E.U.U. Watercolor - USA, A Survey of Watercolor - USA from 1870 to 1946. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (April 24 - May 28, 1946); Pan-American Union, Washington, D.C. (1946). * American Watercolor and Winslow Homer. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (February 27 - March 23, 1945); Detroit Institute of Arts (1945); Brooklyn Museum (1945). * An Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, and Etchings by Edward Hopper. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (March 11 - April 25, 1937). * Seventh Annual Exhibition of Water Colors and Pastels. Cleveland Museum of Art (January 23 - February 23, 1930). --- PROVENANCE Edward Hopper, sold to Frank K.M. Rehn, New York, NY date: October 1929 footnotes: citations: (Frank K. M. Rehn, New York, NY, sold to Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: 1929 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1929- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: In an interview published in 1962, Edward Hopper described this watercolor's setting, saying that "I like Maine very much but it gets so cold in fall." digital description: Edward Hopper made this watercolor during the last of several painting excursions that he took to Maine. He had painted the lighthouse at Cape Elizabeth once two years before, but found the structure so interesting that he returned to it in this drawing. Hopper was especially attracted to the varying green tones of the grass and the combination of buildings, each with a different purpose, including one where the lighthouse keepers slept and the three at the bottom where coast guard families lived. He used a slightly different tone of watercolor for each of the structures to accurately convey the reflection of light on them. wall description: Hopper made this light-filled watercolor during his last painting excursion to Maine. He was intrigued by the different purposes of the buildings, the one at the top of the hill being where the lighthouse keepers slept, and the three at the bottom where their families lived. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hopper, Edward and Jo Hopper. Artist's Ledger Book I. 1993-63. page number: Mentioned: p. 71 url: An Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, and Etchings by Edward Hopper. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1937. page number: Mentioned: p. 20, no. 93 url: O'Connor, Jr, John. "Edward Hopper, American Artist." Carnegie Magazine 10, no. 10 (March 1937): 303-306. page number: Mentioned: p. 305 url: Coates, Robert M. "The Art Galleries: Water Colors and Oils." The New Yorker (May 26, 1945): 67-68. page number: Mentioned: p. 67 url: A Survey of Watercolor - U.S.A. from 1870 to 1946. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1946. page number: Reproduced: p. 20, no. 12 url: Benesch, Otto, and Lloyd Goodrich. Amerikanische Meister des Aquarells. Vienna: Albertina, 1949. page number: Mentioned: no. 29 url: Goodrich, Lloyd. Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1950. page number: Mentioned: p. 58, no. 103 url: Goodrich, Lloyd. Edward Hopper. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1964. page number: Mentioned: p. 67, no. 103 url: Goodrich, Lloyd. Edward Hopper. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989. page number: Reproduced: p. 72 url: Little, Carl. Edward Hopper's New England. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 1993. page number: Reproduced: plate 21 url: Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. page number: Mentioned: p. 224 url: Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 2, p. 197, no. W-228 url: Lyons, Deborah. Edward Hopper: A Journal of His Work. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997. page number: Mentioned: p. 34. url: Mecklenburg, Virginia M. Edward Hopper: The Watercolors. Exh. Cat. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1999. page number: Mentioned: p. 90-93; reproduced: p. 92 url: DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: P. 4, 252-253, 297, cat. no. 106; Reproduced: P. 253 url: Salatino, Kevin. "Edward Hopper's Maine." American Art Review 23, no. 4 (July-August 2011): 88-93, 111. page number: Reproduced: p. 92 url: Salatino, Kevin. Edward Hopper's Maine. Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2011. page number: Mentioned: p. 28, no. 55; reproduced: no. 55 url: --- IMAGES