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Hills, South Truro

Hills, South Truro

1930
(American, 1882–1967)
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.)
© Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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."
  • (Rehn Gallery, New York, 1931).
  • Pène du Bois, Guy. Edward Hopper. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1931. Mentioned: p. 10-11; Reproduced: fig. 20
    Milliken, William M. "The Eleventh Exhibition of Contemporary American Oils." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 18, no. 6 (June 1931). Mentioned: p. 111; Reproduced
    Kelly, Grace. "Oil Painting Exhibition at Art Museum Represents Current American Trends." Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 14, 1931. Mentioned: p. 14
    Kelly, Grace. "Concerning Landscapes in Exhibit." Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 28, 1931. Mentioned: p. 11
    Kelly, Grace. "Interest in Prints Grows at the Museum of Art Among Cleveland Residents." Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 12, 1931. Mentioned: p. 11
    Frary, JT. "Oils Lead Water Colors in 'Area' at Art Museum". Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 9, 1931. Mentioned: p. 14
    Francis, Henry Sayles. "A New England Landscape by Edward Hopper." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 19, no. 6 (February 1932). Mentioned: 22-23; Reproduced
    "Museum Accessions." The American Magazine of Art 24, no. 3 (March 1932). Reproduced: p. 224
    Museum of Modern Art. Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition, November 1-December 7, 1933. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1933. Mentioned: p. 26
    Sherburne, E. C. "The Hopper Exhibition." Christian Science Monitor, November 6, 1933. Mentioned
    Arts Club of Chicago. Paintings by Edward Hopper: Arts Club of Chicago, January Second to Sixteenth, Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Four. Chicago: The Club, 1934. Mentioned
    "Hills, South Truro." The Christian Science Monitor, April 6, 1934. Mentioned; Reproduced
    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. Referenced: cat. no. 95, p. 27
    Hopper, Edward. Edward Hopper. New York: American Artists Group, 1945. Reproduced
    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. Mentioned
    Goodrich, Lloyd. Edward Hopper Retrospective Exhibition. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1950. Mentioned: p. 55
    Burchfield, Charles. "Portrait of a Realist: Edward Hopper at Sixty-Seven." Art News (March 1950). Mentioned: p.62
    Worcester Art Museum. Five Painters of America: A Loan Exhibition, 1955. Mentioned: p. 2
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned; Reproduced n. 551 archive.org
    Flint Institute of Arts. American Landscape, 1760-1960. Flint, MI: The Institute, 1960. Mentioned
    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. Mentioned: p. 35; Reproduced: p. 7
    Goodrich, Lloyd. Edward Hopper, Exhibition and Catalogue. Tucson: University of Arizona, 1964. Mentioned: p. 38, 28
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 192 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 192 archive.org
    Gillies, Jean. "The Timeless Space of Edward Hopper." Art Journal 31, no. 4 (Summer 1972). Mentioned: p. 411-412; Reproduced: p. 411
    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. Mentioned p. 17; Reproduced p. 17
    Heller, Nancy, and Julia Williams. The Regionalists. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications,1976. Reproduced: p. 67
    Johnson, Mark M. "American Landscapes...Scenes as Divergent as the Land Itself." Arts and Activities 82, no. 4 (December 1977). Mentioned: p. 6; Reproduced p. 6
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 238 archive.org
    Billeter, Erika. "Edward Hopper und die Amerikanische Szene." Du, Die Kunstzeitschrift 4 (1980). Mentioned; Reproduced
    Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist. New York; London: Norton in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980. Mentioned: p. 46-50, 61-64; Reproduced: p. 282
    Goodrich, Lloyd. Edward Hopper. New York: Abradale Press, 1983. Mentioned: p. 89; Reproduced: p. 88
    Goodrich, Lloyd. Edward Hopper. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1989. Mentioned: 119-124; Reproduced: p. 121
    Robertson, Bruce. Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Paintings and their Influence. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1990. Mentioned: p. 133; Reproduced: p. 134
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p.148
    Robertson, Bruce. "Edward Hopper." In Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992. Mentioned: p. 170; Reproduced p. 171
    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. Reproduced: p. 51
    Little, Carl. Edward Hopper's New England. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1993. Mentioned: 6, 13-15; Reproduced: fig. 21
    Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: p. 108
    Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995. Reproduced: p. 203
    Costantino, Maria. Edward Hopper. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1995. Reproduced: p. 62
    Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography. New York: Knopf, 1995. Mentioned: p. 230-234
    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. Mentioned: p. 31, 40
    Kranzfelder, Ivo, and Edward Hopper. Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Vision of Reality. Köln: B. Taschen, 1998. Reproduced: p. 29
    Harris, Patricia, and David Lyon. Massachusetts: The Spirit of America. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1999. Mentioned: p. 22-23; Reproduced: p. 23
    Chassey, Éric de. Made in USA l'art américain, 1908-1947. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2001. Reproduced: p. 168
    Anfam, David, and Sheena Wagstaff. Edward Hopper. London: Tate Publishing, 2004. Mentioned: p. 246; Reproduced: p. 158-159
    Donley, Gregory M., "World Travelers", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 46 no. 01, January 2006 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8 archive.org
    Troyen, Carol, Judith A. Barter, Janet L. Comey, Elliot Bostwick Davis, and Ellen E. Roberts. Edward Hopper. Boston, MA: MFA Publications, 2007. Mentioned: p. 147-155; Reproduced: p. 151
    Wells, Walter. Silent Theater: The Art of Edward Hopper. London: Phaidon Press, 2007. Mentioned: p.154; Reproduced: p. 155
    Zezima, Katie. "A Town Tries to Protect an Artist's Inspiration." The New York Times, September 19, 2007. Mentioned; Reproduced
    Klinkenborg, Verlyn. "The Hopper Landscape." The New York Times, September 26, 2007. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/opinion/26weds4.html. Mentioned: p. A 26
    Simon, L. Marcia. Letter to the editor. The New York Times, October 2, 2007. Mentioned: p. A 24
    Adams, Henry. What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. Mentioned : p. 136; Reproduced: 136-137
    Vincent, Marc. "Essays Shed Light on Complex American Artist." The Plain Dealer, February 17, 2008. Mentioned: p. M5
    Farrés, Ernest, and Lawrence Venuti. Edward Hopper: Poems. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2009. Mentioned: p. 93, 134
    Little, Carl. Edward Hopper's New England. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2011. Mentioned: p. 16; Reproduced
    Foster, Carter E., and Daniel S. Palmer. Hopper Drawing. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2013. Mentioned: p. 180; Reproduced: p. 181
  • 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.
    Hopper Drawing. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (May 23-October 6, 2013).
    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).
    American Icons: American Masterworks from the 1930s. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 1-June 1, 2006).
    CMA Highlights. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 21-September 11, 2005).
    CMA Highlights. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 21-September 11, 2005).
    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).
    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).
    Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (November 1-December 7, 1993).
    The Truth of the Real, Edward Hopper and Photography. Museum Folkwang, 45128 Essen, Germany (organizer) (June 28-September 27, 1992).
    Edward Hopper und die Fotografie. Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (June 28-September 27, 1992).
    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).
    America, ca. 1930. The Ohio State University School of Art Gallery, Columbus, OH (October 13-October 31, 1968).
    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).
    A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils and Watercolors by Edward Hopper. The University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ (April 20-May 19, 1963).
    American Landscape, 1760-1960. Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI (March 3-April 3, 1960).
    Sesquicentennial Celebration. Miami University, Miami, OH (May 15-June 15, 1959).
    Living New England Artists Associated with the New England Coast. Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH (July 18-September 2, 1956).
    Works of Hopper and Corbino. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (March 7-March 28, 1956).
    Five Painters of America: Louis Bouché, Edward Hopper, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Andrew Wyeth. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (February 17-April 3, 1955).
    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).
    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).
    The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
    Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937).
    An Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, and Etchings by Edward Hopper. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (organizer) (March 11-April 25, 1937).
    Exhibitions of Painting by Edward Hopper. The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (January 2-January 16, 1934).
    The Eleventh Exhibition of Contemporary American Oils. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 12-July 12, 1931).
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