In 1929, Edward Hopper (1882-1967) created a conte and charcoal drawing entitled Topsfield. Hopper and his wife Josephine visited Topsfield during the summer of 1929, on a trip from New York to Maine. They stayed at the home of Samuel and Anne Tucker, who were “mutual acquaintances of Bee Blanchard, the decorator who had been buying Hoppers since his first show with Rehn” (Levin, p. 223).
The drawing measures 15 x 22 inches, and was included in a major bequest to the Whitney Museum of Art, several years after Hopper’s death.
References
Goodrich, L. (Digitized 2013). Selections from the Hopper Bequest to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved June 8, 2015, from Internet Archive: http://archive.org/stream/edwardhopp00hopp/edwardhopp00hopp_djvu.txt
Levin, G. (1998). Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved June 8, 2015, from https://books.google.com/books?id=6Dh2gFK-lecC&lpg
External Links
Image credit: Whitney Museum of American Art:
http://collection.whitney.org/object/6664
Contents
Topsfield Times: A Community and Local History Resource
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