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accession number: 1931.2647
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Hills, South Truro, 1930. Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967). Oil on canvas; framed: 83 x 123.5 x 6.5 cm (32 11/16 x 48 5/8 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 69.5 x 109.5 cm (27 3/8 x 43 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1931.2647 © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
title: Hills, South Truro
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creation date: 1930
creation date earliest: 1930
creation date latest: 1930
current location: 226A American Modern
creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
copyright: © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 83 x 123.5 x 6.5 cm (32 11/16 x 48 5/8 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 69.5 x 109.5 cm (27 3/8 x 43 1/8 in.)
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inscription: signed lower left: EDWARD HOPPER
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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: Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today
opening date: 1937-06-23T04:00:00
Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937).
title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
title: Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Works and Their Influence
opening date: 1990-09-19T04:00:00
Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Works and Their Influence. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-November 25, 1990); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (December 16, 1990-February 10, 1991); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (March 16-May 12, 1991).
title: The Truth of the Real, Edward Hopper and Photography
opening date: 1992-06-28T04:00:00
The Truth of the Real, Edward Hopper and Photography. Museum Folkwang, 45128 Essen, Germany (organizer) (June 28-September 27, 1992).
title: Made in U.S.A., l'art américain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]
opening date: 2001-10-05T00:00:00
Made in U.S.A., l'art américain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France (organizer) (October 5-December 31, 2001); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France (January 17-March 31, 2002); Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (April 10-June 25, 2002).
title: Edward Hopper Retrospective
opening date: 2004-05-27T00:00:00
Edward Hopper Retrospective. Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (May 27-September 5, 2004); Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany (October 9, 2004-January 9, 2005).
title: CMA Highlights
opening date: 2005-06-21T00:00:00
CMA Highlights. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 21-September 11, 2005).
title: Edward Hopper
opening date: 2007-05-06T00:00:00
Edward Hopper. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (May 6-August 19, 2007); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (September 16, 2007-January 21, 2008); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (February 16-May 11, 2008).
title: Train Zug Treno Tren. Voyages imaginaires
opening date: 2022-06-17T04:00:00
Train Zug Treno Tren. Voyages imaginaires. Plateforme 10 /Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (organizer) (June 17-September 25, 2022) https://www.mcba.ch/en/exhibitions/voyages-imaginaires/#description.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'The Eleventh Exhibition of Contemporary American Oils. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 12-July 12, 1931).', 'opening_date': '1931-06-12T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (November 1-December 7, 1993).', 'opening_date': '1993-11-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Exhibitions of Painting by Edward Hopper. The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (January 2-January 16, 1934).', 'opening_date': '1934-01-02T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'An American Show: The Cincinnati Art Museum Presents a Selection of Paintings by Six Living American Artists: Louis Bouche, Edward Hopper, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, John Marin, Max Weber. The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (October 1-November 5, 1948).', 'opening_date': '1948-10-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (February 11-March 26, 1950); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (April 13-May 14, 1950); Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (June 4-July 2, 1950).', 'opening_date': '1950-02-11T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Five Painters of America: Louis Bouché, Edward Hopper, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Andrew Wyeth. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (February 17-April 3, 1955).', 'opening_date': '1955-02-17T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Works of Hopper and Corbino. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (March 7-March 28, 1956).', 'opening_date': '1956-03-07T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Living New England Artists Associated with the New England Coast. Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH (July 18-September 2, 1956).', 'opening_date': '1956-07-18T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Sesquicentennial Celebration. Miami University, Miami, OH (May 15-June 15, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-05-15T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'American Landscape, 1760-1960. Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI (March 3-April 3, 1960).', 'opening_date': '1960-03-03T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils and Watercolors by Edward Hopper. The University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ (April 20-May 19, 1963).', 'opening_date': '1963-04-20T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Edward Hopper. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (September 29-November 29, 1964); The Art Institute of Chicago (December 18, 1964-January 31, 1965); Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MA (February 18-March 21, 1965); City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (April 7-May 9, 1965).', 'opening_date': '1964-09-29T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'America, ca. 1930. The Ohio State University School of Art Gallery, Columbus, OH (October 13-October 31, 1968).', 'opening_date': '1968-10-13T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Edward Hopper und die Fotografie. Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (June 28-September 27, 1992).', 'opening_date': '1992-06-28T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA Highlights. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 21-September 11, 2005).', 'opening_date': '2005-06-21T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'American Icons: American Masterworks from the 1930s. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 1-June 1, 2006).', 'opening_date': '2006-03-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Hopper Drawing. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (May 23-October 6, 2013).', 'opening_date': '2013-05-23T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Rehn Gallery, New York, 1931).
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Pène du Bois, Guy. Edward Hopper. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1931.
page number: Mentioned: p. 10-11; Reproduced: fig. 20
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Milliken, William M. "The Eleventh Exhibition of Contemporary American Oils." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 18, no. 6 (June 1931).
page number: Mentioned: p. 111; Reproduced
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Kelly, Grace. "Oil Painting Exhibition at Art Museum Represents Current American Trends." Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 14, 1931.
page number: Mentioned: p. 14
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Kelly, Grace. "Concerning Landscapes in Exhibit." Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 28, 1931.
page number: Mentioned: p. 11
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Kelly, Grace. "Interest in Prints Grows at the Museum of Art Among Cleveland Residents." Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 12, 1931.
page number: Mentioned: p. 11
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Frary, JT. "Oils Lead Water Colors in 'Area' at Art Museum". Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 9, 1931.
page number: Mentioned: p. 14
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Francis, Henry Sayles. "A New England Landscape by Edward Hopper." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 19, no. 6 (February 1932).
page number: Mentioned: 22-23; Reproduced
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"Museum Accessions." The American Magazine of Art 24, no. 3 (March 1932).
page number: Reproduced: p. 224
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Museum of Modern Art. Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition, November 1-December 7, 1933. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1933.
page number: Mentioned: p. 26
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Sherburne, E. C. "The Hopper Exhibition." Christian Science Monitor, November 6, 1933.
page number: Mentioned
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Arts Club of Chicago. Paintings by Edward Hopper: Arts Club of Chicago, January Second to Sixteenth, Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Four. Chicago: The Club, 1934.
page number: Mentioned
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"Hills, South Truro." The Christian Science Monitor, April 6, 1934.
page number: Mentioned; Reproduced
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of an Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 until Today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1st ed. Cleveland: Printed by the Artcraft Printing, 1937.
page number: Referenced: cat. no. 95, p. 27
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Hopper, Edward. Edward Hopper. New York: American Artists Group, 1945.
page number: Reproduced
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Bouché, Louis, Edward Hopper, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, John Marin, and Max Weber. An American Show: The Cincinnati Art Museum Presents a Selection of Paintings by Six Living American Artists: Louis Bouché, Edward Hopper, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, John Marin, Max Weber. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1948.
page number: Mentioned
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Goodrich, Lloyd. Edward Hopper Retrospective Exhibition. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1950.
page number: Mentioned: p. 55
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Burchfield, Charles. "Portrait of a Realist: Edward Hopper at Sixty-Seven." Art News (March 1950).
page number: Mentioned: p.62
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Worcester Art Museum. Five Painters of America: A Loan Exhibition, 1955.
page number: Mentioned: p. 2
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned; Reproduced n. 551
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n102
Flint Institute of Arts. American Landscape, 1760-1960. Flint, MI: The Institute, 1960.
page number: Mentioned
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University of Arizona. The University of Arizona Art Gallery Presents a Retrospective Exhibition of Oils and Watercolors by Edward Hopper, April 20-May 19, 1963. Tucson: University of Arizona, 1963.
page number: Mentioned: p. 35; Reproduced: p. 7
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Goodrich, Lloyd. Edward Hopper, Exhibition and Catalogue. Tucson: University of Arizona, 1964.
page number: Mentioned: p. 38, 28
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 192
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n216
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 192
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n216
Gillies, Jean. "The Timeless Space of Edward Hopper." Art Journal 31, no. 4 (Summer 1972).
page number: Mentioned: p. 411-412; Reproduced: p. 411
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Adams, Celeste, Rita Myers, and Adele Z. Silver. An Introduction to American Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972.
page number: Mentioned p. 17; Reproduced p. 17
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Heller, Nancy, and Julia Williams. The Regionalists. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications,1976.
page number: Reproduced: p. 67
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Johnson, Mark M. "American Landscapes...Scenes as Divergent as the Land Itself." Arts and Activities 82, no. 4 (December 1977).
page number: Mentioned: p. 6; Reproduced p. 6
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 238
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n258
Billeter, Erika. "Edward Hopper und die Amerikanische Szene." Du, Die Kunstzeitschrift 4 (1980).
page number: Mentioned; Reproduced
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Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist. New York; London: Norton in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980.
page number: Mentioned: p. 46-50, 61-64; Reproduced: p. 282
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Goodrich, Lloyd. Edward Hopper. New York: Abradale Press, 1983.
page number: Mentioned: p. 89; Reproduced: p. 88
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Goodrich, Lloyd. Edward Hopper. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1989.
page number: Mentioned: 119-124; Reproduced: p. 121
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Robertson, Bruce. Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Paintings and their Influence. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1990.
page number: Mentioned: p. 133; Reproduced: p. 134
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p.148
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Robertson, Bruce. "Edward Hopper." In Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992.
page number: Mentioned: p. 170; Reproduced p. 171
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Költzsch, Georg-Wilhelm, and Gerd Blum. Edward Hopper und die Fotografie: die Wahrheit des Sichtbaren: Museum Folkwang Essen, 28. Juni - 27. September 1992. Köln: DuMont, 1992.
page number: Reproduced: p. 51
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Little, Carl. Edward Hopper's New England. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1993.
page number: Mentioned: 6, 13-15; Reproduced: fig. 21
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Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p. 108
url:
Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995.
page number: Reproduced: p. 203
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Costantino, Maria. Edward Hopper. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1995.
page number: Reproduced: p. 62
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Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography. New York: Knopf, 1995.
page number: Mentioned: p. 230-234
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Lyons, Deborah, and Brian O'Doherty. Edward Hopper: A Journal of His Work. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with W.W. Norton & Co, 1997.
page number: Mentioned: p. 31, 40
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Kranzfelder, Ivo, and Edward Hopper. Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Vision of Reality. Köln: B. Taschen, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: p. 29
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Harris, Patricia, and David Lyon. Massachusetts: The Spirit of America. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1999.
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Chassey, Éric de. Made in USA l'art américain, 1908-1947. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: p. 168
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page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8
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Wells, Walter. Silent Theater: The Art of Edward Hopper. London: Phaidon Press, 2007.
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page number: Mentioned: p. A 26
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page number: Mentioned: p. A 24
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Adams, Henry. What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
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page number: Mentioned: p. M5
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Little, Carl. Edward Hopper's New England. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2011.
page number: Mentioned: p. 16; Reproduced
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page number: Mentioned: p. 180; Reproduced: p. 181
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