2021.194: Schumann House

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2021.194

People

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

Title

Schumann House

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1931

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/370190

Location

Location

Level 3, Room 3610, University Teaching Gallery

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Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

sight: 34.9 × 50.2 cm (13 3/4 × 19 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: Edward Hopper
• exhibition label: Removed from backing board: Wadsworth Atheneum / Hartford, Conn. / No. T.L. 17 Hopper Ex. / Artist Edward Hopper / Title Schumen House / Owner Mr. and Mrs. Arthur K. Solomon / 27 Craigie Street / Cambrudge, Mass.
• label: Removed from backing board: Schuman Ho [In graphite above label] / Fogg Art Museum / Artist Hopper, Edward / Subject Old Farm House / No. 629.1941 / Lent - Arthur K. Solomon, Esq /
• inscription: On backing board, removed. One label pasted on top of another: [Top label] 28671 Solomon / [Bottom label] Solomon 19769.1

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection

Accession Year

2021

Object Number

2021.194

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), p. 246, no. W-277, ill.
• 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, 104, repr. as pl 35 on p. 104

Exhibition History

• 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
• American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023
• The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/24/2025 - 08/17/2025

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