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Trawler and Telegraph Pole,
1926
Edward Hopper, American, 1882–1967
x1946-267
Hopper produced more than thirty watercolors during the summer of 1926 while in Rockland, Maine, known for its shipbuilding and lime quarries. In these this example, he foregrounds a telegraph pole, and massive beam trawlers along the waterfront. These pictorial devices interrupt our view into the composition, enhancing a sense of physical and psychological isolation. As in many of Hopper’s urban landscapes, the absence of figures underscores the feeling of mystery and silence communicated by the spare, abstracted forms.
Information
Title
Trawler and Telegraph Pole
Dates
1926
Maker
Medium
Watercolor and gouache over graphite
Dimensions
35.3 x 50.5 cm (13 7/8 x 19 7/8 in.)
frame: 62.2 x 77.5 cm (24 1/2 x 30 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Laura P. Hall Memorial Collection
Object Number
x1946-267
Place Depicted
North America, United States, Maine, Rockland
Signatures
Signed in blue watercolor, lower right: Edward Hopper
Inscription
Inscribed in blue watercolor, lower right below signature: Rockland, Me.
Inscribed in graphite, on verso upper left: Trawler and Telegraph Pole
Culture
Type
Materials
Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York, 1926; Clifton R. Hall, Princeton, New Jersey.;
- Guy Pène Du Bois, Edward Hopper, (New York: Whitney Mueum of American Art, 1931).
- Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Edward Hopper: retrospective exhibition, November 1-December 7, 1933, (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1933).
- Ernest T DeWald and Paul F Norton, The Laura P. Hall memorial collection of prints and drawings: bequest of Clifton R. Hall, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University. Department of Art and Archaeology, 1947)., no. 44 [as Tugboat, Rockland, Maine]
- Watercolors by Edward Hopper: with a selection of his etchings: [exhibition held at] the Currier Gallery of Art, October 8-November 15, 1959 ; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, December 2-27 ; Wadsworth Atheneum, January 6-February 7, 1960., (Manchester, NH: Currier Gallery of Art, 1959). , no. 10
- Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: the art and the artist, (New York: Norton; Whitney Museum of Amserican Art, 1980)., p. 42, pl. 178
- The Gloucester years: [exhibition] February 6 thru March 4, 1982, (New York: Grace Borgenicht Gallery, 1982)., p. 18 (illus.)
- Sue Welsh Reed and Carol Troyen, Awash in color: Homer, Sargent, and the great American watercolor, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, in association with Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Co., 1993)., p. 234 (illus.)
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 156 (illus.); p. 157, cat. no. 35
- Kevin Salatino, ed., Edward Hopper's Maine, (Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art; Munich; New York; Prestel/Delmonico Books, 2011)., fig. 51, p. 113 (illus.), 174
