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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.
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173965
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Lighthouse Village (also known as Cape Elizabeth)
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173965
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Lighthouse Village (also known as Cape Elizabeth)
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.
date
1929
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en
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Q117230293
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6568
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Sheet: 40.5 x 63.3 cm (15 15/16 x 24 15/16 in.)
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America
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1930.851
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watercolor with gouache over graphite
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Lighthouse Village (also known as Cape Elizabeth), 1929. Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967). Watercolor with gouache over graphite; sheet: 40.5 x 63.3 cm (15 15/16 x 24 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection, 1930.851
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cream wove paper
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DR - American 20th Century
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signed, lower right, in black gouache: Edward Hopper / Cape Elizabeth
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160.1930
806.1930
didYouKnow
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."
citations
citation
Hopper, Edward and Jo Hopper. <em>Artist's Ledger Book I</em>. 1993-63.
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Mentioned: p. 71
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<em>An Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, and Etchings by Edward Hopper</em>. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1937.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 20, no. 93
citation
O'Connor, Jr, John. "Edward Hopper, American Artist." <em>Carnegie Magazine </em>10, no. 10 (March 1937): 303-306.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 305
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Francis, Henry. "Museum Water Colors and the Thirteenth Exhibition of Water Colors and Pastels." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>24, no. 3 (March 1937): 39-41
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Mentioned: p. 40
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Coates, Robert M. "The Art Galleries: Water Colors and Oils." <em>The New Yorker</em> (May 26, 1945): 67-68.
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Mentioned: p. 67
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<em>A Survey of Watercolor - U.S.A. from 1870 to 1946</em>. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1946.
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Reproduced: p. 20, no. 12
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Benesch, Otto, and Lloyd Goodrich. <em>Amerikanische Meister des Aquarells</em>. Vienna: Albertina, 1949.
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Mentioned: no. 29
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Goodrich, Lloyd. <em>Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition</em>. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1950.
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Mentioned: p. 58, no. 103
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Goodrich, Lloyd. <em>Edward Hopper</em>. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1964.
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Mentioned: p. 67, no. 103
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Goodrich, Lloyd. <em>Edward Hopper</em>. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 72
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Little, Carl. <em>Edward Hopper's New England</em>. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 1993.
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Reproduced: plate 21
citation
Levin, Gail. <em>Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography</em>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
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Mentioned: p. 224
citation
Levin, Gail. <em>Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné</em>. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 2, p. 197, no. W-228
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Lyons, Deborah. <em>Edward Hopper: A Journal of His Work</em>. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997.
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Mentioned: p. 34.
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Mecklenburg, Virginia M. <em>Edward Hopper: The Watercolors</em>. Exh. Cat. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1999.
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Mentioned: p. 90-93; reproduced: p. 92
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DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
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Mentioned: P. 4, 252-253, 297, cat. no. 106; Reproduced: P. 253
citation
Salatino, Kevin. "Edward Hopper's Maine." <em>American Art Review</em> 23, no. 4 (July-August 2011): 88-93, 111.
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Reproduced: p. 92
citation
Salatino, Kevin. <em>Edward Hopper's Maine</em>. Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2011.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 28, no. 55; reproduced: no. 55
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Levin W-228
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Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
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2026-06-15 19:16:51.935000
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