Harvard Art Museums > 1930.462: Highland Light Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Highland Light (Edward Hopper) , 1930.462,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Oct 11, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/306540. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1930.462 People Edward Hopper, American (Nyack NY 1882 - 1967 New York NY) Title Highland Light Other Titles Former Title: Highland Light, North Truro Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1930 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/306540 Physical Descriptions Medium Watercolor and graphite on rough white wove paper Dimensions 42.3 × 65.3 cm (16 5/8 × 25 11/16 in.) Tacking margin surrounds image: 40.4 × 63.4 cm (15 7/8 × 24 15/16 in.) mat: 61.3 × 81.9 cm (24 1/8 × 32 1/4 in.) frame: 65.4 × 86.4 × 2.2 cm (25 3/4 × 34 × 7/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: olive watercolor, l.r.: Edward Hopper/ Cape Cod exhibition label: removed from backing board, now in curatorial file, paper: S. E. no. 526, Works of Ten American Watercolor Painters [1939] exhibition label: removed from backing board, now in curatorial file, paper: Reg. no. 85. exhibition label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper: 33.993 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Edward Hopper; to [Rehn Galleries, New York, New York], 1930; sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1930. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund Accession Year 1930 Object Number 1930.462 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Edward Hopper, Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1933), cat. no. 54, illustrated Watercolors by Twelve Americans, exh. cat., Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA, 1933), cat. no. 32 William Germain Dooley, "Realist Trio Show Harvard Their Works", Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, December 8, 1934), p. 6, ill. Exhibition of Paintings by Edward Hopper, exh. cat., Arts Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1934), cat. no. 32 Five Americans, exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1934), checklist no. 38 Watercolors by Contemporary Americans, exh. cat., Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA, 1935), cat. no. 13 Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 210 An Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors and Etchings by Edward Hopper, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, PA, 1937), cat. no. 54 Ten American Watercolor Painters, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1939), checklist no. 38 Museum's Choice: Paintings by Contemporary Americans, exh. cat., Art Gallery of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1945), cat. no. 39 Lloyd Goodrich, Edward Hopper Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1950), cat. no. 106 "Five Painters of America", Worcester Art Museum News Bulletin and Calendar (Worcester, MA, March 1955), XX Painters by the Sea, exh. cat., Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, NH, 1956), checklist no. 4 Lloyd Goodrich, Edward Hopper, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1964), cat. no. 107 Lloyd Goodrich, "Portrait of the Artist", Women's Day (February 1965), no. 29, pp. 37-41, 92, reproduced p. 40 Lloyd Goodrich, Edward Hopper, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1971) Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 146, ill. James N. Carpenter, Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1974), pp. 61-62, cat. 25, ill. Donelson F. Hoopes, American Watercolor Painting, Watson-Guptill Publications (New York, NY, 1977), pp. 138, 150, pl. 42 Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 10, 17, 24, 37, 61, 98, cat. 25 Gail Levin, Hopper's Places, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1985), p. 70, fig. 11 Christopher Finch, American Watercolors, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1986), reproduced in b/w, p. 211, fig. 256 Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), p. 260, cat. 304, ill. Alexander Theroux, "Edward Hopper's Cape Cod", Art & Antiques (January 1990), VII, p. 58; reproduced p. 60 Kate F. Jennings, American Watercolors, Crescent Books (New York, NY, 1995), pp. 74-75 Maria Costantino, Edward Hopper, Barnes and Noble Books (New York, NY, 1995), p. 57 Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY and London, England, 1995), W-248, repr. Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Edward Hopper: The Watercolors, exh. cat., National Museum of American Art and W. W. Norton & Company (Washington, D.C and New York, NY, 1999), fig. 106 (color), pp. 102-103 Gail Levin, The Complete Watercolors of Edward Hopper, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, 2001), W-248, repr. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950", American Art Review (April 2006), XVIII, no. 2, pp. 88-93, repr. p. 93 Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist, repr. (n.p.) Carol Troyen, Judith A. Barter, and Janet L. Comey, Edward Hopper, exh. cat., MFA Publications (Boston, MA, 2007), p. 147, cat. no. 75, repr. p. 150 Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), ill. p. 210 Melissa Renn, "Via Provincetown: The American Avant-Garde on Cape Cod, 1913-1966", Provincetown Art Association and Museum: A Century of Creativity, ed. Christine M. McCarthy, Provincetown Art Association and Museum (2014), p. fig. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 17, 49, 102, repr. as fig. 3 on p. 49, pl. 33 on p. 102 Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 3, Page 49 Exhibition History Unidentified Exhibition, Princeton University, 1931, Princeton University, Princeton, 12/28/1931 - 02/01/1932 Watercolors by 12 Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 05/22/1933 - 06/26/1933 Edward Hopper, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11/01/1933 - 12/07/1933 Hopper Exhibition, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, 12/01/1933 - 01/22/1934 Exhibition of Paintings by Edward Hopper, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, 01/02/1934 - 01/16/1934 Five Americans, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 05/19/1934 - 06/19/1934 Watercolors: Sheeler, Hopper, Burchfield, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/05/1934 - 12/31/1934 Watercolors by Contemporary Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 05/22/1935 - 06/25/1935 Unidentified Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Association, 1935, Fitchburg Art Association, Fitchburg, 12/08/1935 - 12/31/1935 American Watercolors from the Museum's Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/01/1936 - 02/29/1936 An Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors and Etchings by Edward Hopper, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 03/11/1937 - 04/25/1937 Ten American Watercolor Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 04/15/1939 - 05/07/1939 Unidentified Exhibition, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1940, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 01/13/1940 - 03/10/1940 Museum's Choice: Paintings by Contemporary Americans, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 02/03/1945 - 02/25/1945 Retrospective Exhibition of the Works of Edward Hopper, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 02/11/1950 - 03/26/1950; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 04/13/1950 - 05/14/1950; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 06/04/1950 - 07/02/1950 Five Painters of America, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 02/17/1955 - 04/03/1955 Unidentified Exhibition, Thomas Crane Public Library, 1955, Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy, 08/15/1955 - 08/20/1955 Painters by the Sea, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 07/18/1956 - 09/02/1956 Edward Hopper, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 09/29/1964 - 11/29/1964 Watercolors from the Fogg: An Historical Collection, St. Paul's School, Concord, 10/12/1971 - 11/20/1971 American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972 Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/25/1974 - 06/16/1974 Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977 American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006 Edward Hopper, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/06/2007 - 08/19/2007 American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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