Currently not on view
Lime Rock Railroad,
1926
Edward Hopper, American, 1882–1967
x1946-266
Hopper produced more than thirty watercolors during the summer of 1926 while in Rockland, Maine, known for its shipbuilding and lime quarries. In this example, he foregrounds railroad tracks. This pictorial device 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
Lime Rock Railroad
Dates
1926
Maker
Medium
Watercolor and gouache over graphite
Dimensions
35.5 × 50.7 cm (14 × 19 15/16 in.)
mat: 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.)
Credit Line
Laura P. Hall Memorial Collection
Object Number
x1946-266
Signatures
Signed in blue watercolor, lower right: Edward Hopper
Inscription
Inscribed in blue watercolor, lower right below signature: Rockland, Me
Culture
Type
Materials
- 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).
- W.E. Steadman and D. Denniston, The University of Arizona Art Gallery presents a retrospective exhibition of oils and watercolors by Edward Hopper, April 20-May 19, 1963, (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, 1963). , n. 10; p. 32
- Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: the art and the artist, (New York: Norton; Whitney Museum of Amserican Art, 1980)., p. 42, pl. 178
- Barbara T. Ross, "The Prints and Drawings Collection: The Early Years," in "An Art Museum for Princeton: The Early Years", special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 55, no. 1/2 (1996): 135–155., p. 137, fig. 2
- 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
