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Hills, South Truro

1930

Edward Hopper

(American, 1882–1967)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
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.)
Credit Line
Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1931.2647
Copyright
© Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
226A American Modern
Print
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Did You Know?

Hopper loved this area of Cape Cod so much that he later built his home there.

Description

A deeply reserved individual and intensely independent artist, Hopper sought to capture, in his words, "the sad desolation" of America. His works—including this Cape Cod landscape of a lone house next to a railroad track amid a backdrop of rolling hills—typically inject mundane scenes with a profound sense of solitude. The painter Charles Burchfield once described Hopper’s art as "silent poetry."
Horizontally oriented oil painting of a hilly landscape with rolling green hills with defined contours in the central third, a dirt rode dividing it horizontally from the lower third, with a silhouette of a brown house in the lower right corner, surrounded by bright green trees. In the upper third, a blue sky is streaked with white and peach-colored clouds. The hills become darker green the further away they get, water just visible over them.

Hills, South Truro

1930

Edward Hopper

(American, 1882–1967)
America

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