1934.62: Cold Storage Plant

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1934.62

People

Edward Hopper, American (Nyack NY 1882 - 1967 New York NY)

Title

Cold Storage Plant

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1933

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306662

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on heavy white wove paper

Dimensions

55.3 × 68.5 cm (21 3/4 × 26 15/16 in.)
image: 50.7 × 63.5 cm (19 15/16 × 25 in.)
mat: 71.1 × 81.6 cm (28 × 32 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: watercolor, l.r.: Edward Hopper
• inscription: verso, graphite, English: A7A [or AFA?] #16
• exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: no. 255.1946
• exhibition label: removed from backing board (now in curatorial file), paper: TR no. 1138
• exhibition label: removed from backing board (now in curatorial file), paper, English: no. 112
• label: removed from backing board, now in curatorial file, paper, Italian: Import label(?): stamped "e c 5046", imprinted with bust of Athena and "Dogane [ ] / Merci / Visitate"
• exhibition label: removed from backing board, now in curatorial file, paper, English: Ten Americans exhibition, cat. no. 84
• inscription: Inscribed, verso, graphite: AFA #16 [possibly A7A]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Edward Hopper; to [Rehn Galleries, New York, New York], 1933, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund

Accession Year

1934

Object Number

1934.62

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

tacking margin of c. 25 mm. all around, trimmed

Publication History

• Edward Alden Jewell, "Hopper's Superb One-Man Show", The New York Times (New York, NY, November 5, 1933), p. 12
• Edward Hopper, Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1933), cat. no. 62, illustrated
• Exhibition of Paintings by Edward Hopper, exh. cat., Arts Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1934), cat. no. 47
• Five Americans, exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1934), checklist no. 43
• "The Fine Arts", Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, September 5, 1936), p. 11
• An Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors and Etchings by Edward Hopper, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, PA, 1937), checklist no. 28
• Ten American Watercolor Painters, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1939), checklist no. 39
• Museum's Choice: Paintings by Contemporary Americans, exh. cat., Art Gallery of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1945), cat. no. 39A
• Fogg Art Museum and Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Real and Ideal in American Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1948), cat. 29
• Seven by Six: Loan Exhibition of Contemporary American Watercolors, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, CT, 1948), cat. no. 34
• Lloyd Goodrich, Edward Hopper Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1950), cat. no. 110
• [American Pavilion, 26th Venice Biennial], exh. cat., Venice Biennial (Venice Italy, 1952), cat. no. 22
• American Watercolor Exhibition, exh. cat., All-India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (New Delhi, India, 1954), cat. no. 25
• Lloyd Goodrich, American Water Color Painting Exhibited by the Government of the United States of America at the Colombo National Museum, Ceylon, exh. cat., Ceylon Government Press (Colombo, Ceylon, Sri Lanka, 1955)
• Lloyd Goodrich, American Watercolor Exhibition, exh. cat., Far East Regional Production Center (Manila, Philippines?, 1955), ill. n.p.
• Watercolors by Edward Hopper, with a Selection of his Etchings, exh. cat., Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, NH, 1959), cat. no. 26
• A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils and Watercolors by Edward Hopper, exh. cat., University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ, 1963), cat. no. 25
• Gerald Nachman, "Closeup: Artist at 82", New York Post (New York, NY, November 27, 1964), p. 5
• Lloyd Goodrich, Edward Hopper, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1964), cat. no. 112
• Lloyd Goodrich, Edward Hopper, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1971), reproduced
• William McCoy, Edward Hopper 1882-1967: Oils, Watercolors, Etchings, exh. cat., William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum (Rockland, ME, 1971), cat. no. 35
• April Kingsley, "Edward Hopper", Provincetown Advocate summer guide (Provincetown, MA, July 25, 1974), pp. 12-13, reproduced p. 12
• Ten Americans, exh. cat., Andrew Crispo Gallery (New York, NY, 1974), cat. no. 84, reproduced
• Mahonri Sharp Young, American Realists: Homer to Hopper, Watson-Guptill Publications (New York, NY, 1977), reproduced p. 197
• Gail Levin, Hopper's Places, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1985), p. 15, 69, reproduced fig. 5
• Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, reproduced, fig. 21
• Richard Todd, "Along the Hopper Trail", New England Monthly (Haydenville, MA, May 1988), p. 79
• Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY and London, England, 1995), W-289, 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. 121 (color), p. 118
• Gail Levin, The Complete Watercolors of Edward Hopper, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, 2001), W-289
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
• Carol Troyen, Judith A. Barter, and Janet L. Comey, Edward Hopper, exh. cat., MFA Publications (Boston, MA, 2007), pp. 155, 158, cat. no. 81, repr. p. 155
• Richard Vine and Christopher Gaillard, William Steiger: Transport, Hudson Hills Press (Manchester and New York, 2011), p. 26, fig. 16, ill.
• Murray Whyte, "A Century of Watercolors at Harvard Display the Form's Unruly Pleasures", Boston Globe (Boston, July 2, 2023), p. N4
• Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 34 on p. 103, on p. 170 [detail]

Exhibition History

• Edward Hopper, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11/01/1933 - 12/07/1933
• 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
• 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
• Unidentified Exhibition, Colby College Museum of Art, 1945, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, 05/10/1945 - 06/06/1945
• Museum's Choice, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 02/06/1946 - 02/28/1946; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 03/08/1946 - 04/08/1946
• Real and Ideal in American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1948 - 09/01/1948
• Seven by Six: Loan Exhibition of Contemporary American Watercolors, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 10/27/1948 - 11/28/1948
• 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
• American Pavilion, Venice Bienniale XXVI, 1952, Venice, 06/14/1952 - 10/19/1952
• American Watercolor Exhibition, Artistry House, Bombay, 11/15/1954 - 11/23/1954; Madras Museum, Madras, 01/08/1955 - 01/18/1955; [Unknown venue, Lahore, Pakistan], Lahore, 02/08/1955 - 02/15/1955; [Unknown venue, Peshawar, Pakistan], Peshawar, 03/01/1955 - 03/08/1955; [Unknown venue, Karachi, Pakistan], Karachi, 03/20/1955 - 03/27/1955; Colombo National Museum, Colombo, 04/13/1955 - 05/09/1955; United States Embassy, Manilla, Manila, 06/09/1955 - 06/23/1955; [Unknown venue, Tokyo], Tokyo, 07/26/1955 - 08/14/1955; Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, 12/09/1955 - 12/16/1955
• Watercolors by Edward Hopper with a Selection of his Etchings, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 12/02/1927 - 12/27/1927; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 10/08/1959 - 11/15/1959; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 01/06/1960 - 02/07/1960
• A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils and Watercolors by Edward Hopper, University of Arizona, Tucson, 04/20/1963 - 05/19/1963
• Edward Hopper, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 09/29/1964 - 11/29/1964; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 12/18/1964 - 01/31/1965; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 02/18/1965 - 03/21/1965; City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 04/07/1965 - 05/09/1965
• Unidentified Exhibition, Lincoln Laboratory, 1966, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 10/15/1966 - 12/15/1966
• Edward Hopper, 1882 - 1967: Oils, Watercolors, Etchings, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, 07/09/1971 - 09/05/1971
• Ten Americans, Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, 05/16/1974 - 07/15/1974
• 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

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