Edward Hopper

Study for Route 6, Eastham

1941

Pencil and charcoal sketch of several houses and landscape studies with handwritten notes.

Pencil and charcoal sketch of several houses and landscape studies with handwritten notes.

Not on view

Date
1941

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Fabricated chalk, charcoal and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 16 in. (26.7 × 40.6 cm)

Accession number
70.330

Credit line
Josephine N. Hopper Bequest

Rights and reproductions
© Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/6289

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Edward Hopper, Study for Route 6, Eastham, 1941

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Carter Foster: So this drawing is a study for Hopper's painting, Route 6, Eastham, from 1941. What's amazing about it is this conceptual balance you have between the architectural details and the space of the road and this house on it and all these color notations that Hopper made.
It's full of color notations, very specific ones that describe, in interesting adjectives, different shades of gray and how carefully Hopper wanted to remember the colors that he was actually seeing, so that when he went to make the painting back in the studio, he clearly used this as a memory aid.So it shows this tension between the real and the imagined that was really at the heart of Hopper's art.

Edward Hopper, Study for Route 6, Eastham, 1941

In Hopper Drawing

Exhibitions

Hopper Drawing

May 23–Oct 6, 2013

See also

Edward Hopper
3,151 works in the collection, 68 exhibitions

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