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Lighthouse Village (also known as Cape Elizabeth)

1929

Edward Hopper

(American, 1882–1967)
Culture
America
Medium
watercolor with gouache over graphite
Support
Cream wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 40.5 x 63.3 cm (15 15/16 x 24 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1930.851
Catalogue raisonné
Levin W-228
Copyright
© Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

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."

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.
Horizontally oriented watercolor with a white lighthouse tower on top of a green hill in the background, framed against a blue sky with white clouds fringing the top. To the lighthouse's left connects a white house while, at the base of the hill, sit three square houses, the house on the left painted white, center muted yellow, and right pale pink. In front of them extends a smooth field of green grass.

Lighthouse Village (also known as Cape Elizabeth)

1929

Edward Hopper

(American, 1882–1967)
America

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