{"data":{"id":"4373","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":4373,"topgoose_id":20898,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":4373,"title":"American Landscape","display_artist_text":"Edward Hopper","display_date":"1920","accession_number":"31.690","dimensions":"Sheet (Irregular): 13 3/8 × 18 1/4 in. (34 × 46.4 cm)\r\nPlate: 7 5/16 × 12 5/16 in. (18.6 × 31.3 cm)","medium":"Etching","department":"collection","classification":"Prints","credit_line":"Purchase","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdward Hopper, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Landscape\u003c/em\u003e, 1920. Etching, sheet (Irregular): 13 3/8 × 18 1/4 in. (34 × 46.4 cm)\r\nPlate: 7 5/16 × 12 5/16 in. (18.6 × 31.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 31.690. © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Landscape\u003c/em\u003e belongs to a series of etchings that Edward Hopper began to produce in 1915. After having little early success as a painter, he decided to take up printmaking. Hopper’s etchings launched the artist’s mature style and garnered his first critical acclaim. He had sketched trains regularly as a child, and his frequent depictions of railroad tracks as seen from below, or from afar, emphasized their disruption of pastoral landscapes. Here, a succession of cows lumber across the tracks that bisect the scene, their ungainly haunches providing the viewer with a humorous entry point into the picture. Hopper’s richly-etched tonalities and spare composition anticipate the poignant isolation that would underlie much of his subsequent work. A feeling of quietude pervades, as if the rural environment—represented here by livestock and a gabled clapboard farmhouse—has been passed by.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Two cattle walking through tall grass toward a distant farmhouse at the horizon.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-31T10:45:30.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:47.326-05:00","images":[{"id":96088,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/4373/31_690_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"621","type":"artist"}]}}}}