Gloucester Mansions

Prints and Drawings

1923

Edward Hopper
American, 1882-1967

Edward Hopper is best known today for his famous 1942 painting Nighthawks. As a young man, he studied painting in New York with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri, and like many young artists of his generation, he traveled to Paris to learn the latest trends in art before establishing himself as an illustrator in New York. He began to experiment with printmaking around 1915, and by the 1920s, he had found a uniquely American style featuring urban landscapes. A masterful watercolorist, he perfected his evocation of brilliant seaside light while painting the Victorian mansions of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

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Artist: Edward Hopper
Title: Gloucester Mansions
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1923
Medium: Watercolor, over graphite, on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in watercolor: "Edward Hopper / Gloucester 1923"
Dimensions: 35.2 × 50.6 cm (13 7/8 × 19 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1933.486

Gale Levin, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II (New York, 1995), no. W-66 (ill.)
Gail Levin, “Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, Surrealism, and the War,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 22:2 (1996), pp. 180-95.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900-1950s,” Jan. 30-May 3, 2010, no cat.

Annie Swan Coburn (1856-1932), Chicago, by Nov. 1932 [collection inventory in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

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