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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1982.37
People
Edward Hopper, American (Nyack NY 1882 - 1967 New York NY)
Title
Jenness House, Truro
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1934
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309238

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
35.6 × 50.9 cm (14 × 20 1/16 in.)
frame: 59.7 × 75.1 × 1.9 cm (23 1/2 × 29 9/16 × 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: To Harriet R. Jenness/Edward Hopper
  • inscription: graphite, lower right: To Harriet R. Jenness / Edward Hopper.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edward Hopper, gift; to Harriet R. Jenness, 1934, by descent; to Virginia Jenness, Cambridge Massachusetts, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1982.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Virginia Jenness
Accession Year
1982
Object Number
1982.37
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY and London, England, 1995), vol. II, p. 266, no. W-297, reproduced in color
  • 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. 128 (color), p. 127 ( as "Jenness House IV")
  • Gail Levin, The Complete Watercolors of Edward Hopper, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, 2001), W-297, repr.
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
  • 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 fig. 2 on p. 49

Exhibition History

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