LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

34.02 in. (86.40 cm.) (height) by 50.24 in. (127.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'E. Hopper' (lower right)

Exhibited:

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Second Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, November 27, 1934-January 10, 1935, no. 38. Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Fourteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, March 24-May 5, 1935, no. 325. Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings, June 7-July 7, 1935. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, An Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, and Etchings by Edward Hopper, March 11-April 25, 1937, no. 5. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Exhibition of American Paintings for Paris, November 9-December 13, 1937. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, January 29-March 5, 1939, no. 88. Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Fifty-fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, October 28-December 12, 1943, no. 6. New York, The American Academy of Arts and Letters and The National Institute of Arts and Letters, Works of Newly Elected Members and Recipients of 'Arts and Letters Grants,' May 19-June 29, 1945, no. 1. New York, The Century Association, The Fall Exhibition of Work by Artist Members, November 6-December 31, 1946. Iowa City, Iowa, University of Iowa, 3rd Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art, June 15-July 30, 1947, no. 52. Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, An American Show: The Cincinnati Art Museum Presents a Selection of Paintings by Six Living American Artists, October 1-November 5, 1948, no. 24. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, and elsewhere, Edward Hopper Retrospective Exhibition, February 11-March 26, 1950, no. 43. Venice, Italy, The American Pavilion, XXVI Venice Biennale, June 15-October 19, 1952. Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Judge the Jury, February 13-March 22, 1953. Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Paintings by Hopper and Corbino, March 7-28, 1956. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Fidelity Philadelphia Trust Co., December 3, 1958-January 6, 1959, on loan. Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Art Gallery, A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils and Watercolors by Edward Hopper, April 20-May 19, 1963, no. 29. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, and elsewhere, Edward Hopper Retrospective Exhibition, September 30-November 29, 1964, no. 29. São Paulo, Brazil, Museum of Modern Art, and elsewhere, São Paulo 9, September 23, 1967-January 8, 1968. Jackson, Mississippi, Old Capitol Museum, and elsewhere, 200 Years of American Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, September 18-November 30, 1970. London, The Embassy of the United States of America, and elsewhere, Young America: A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 4-25, 1975, no. 21. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976, A Special Bicentennial Exhibition, April 22-December 31, 1976, no. 285. Edinburgh, Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, and elsewhere, The Modern Spirit: American Painting 1908-1935, August 20-September 11, 1977, no. 129. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, and elsewhere, Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist, September 16, 1980-January 18, 1981, no. 84. New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University, Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Hopper's Places, September 8-November 3, 1985. Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, American Realism Between the Wars, April 10-June 5, 1994. Madrid, Spain, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, and elsewhere, Hopper, June 12-September 16, 2012.

Literature:

Artist's ledger: Book II, 1907-62, p. 5. Whitney Museum of American Art, Second Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, exhibition checklist, New York, 1934, p. 8, no. 38. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Fourteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1935, pp. 66, 109, no. 325, illustrated. H.S. Francis, "The Fifteenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oils," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 22, no. 6, June 1935, p. 105. E. Brace, "Edward Hopper," Magazine of Art, vol. 30, May 1937, p. 277. Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, An Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, and Etchings by Edward Hopper, exhibition catalogue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1937, n.p., no. 5. R.M. Coates, "The Art Galleries: One Hundred Fifteen Americans--And Others," The New Yorker, November 27, 1937, p. 44. "Four American Artists Look at America," Vogue, vol. 91, February 1, 1938, p. 84, illustrated (as Side Street in Weehawken). Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, exhibition checklist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1939, no. 88, illustrated. The Art Institute of Chicago, The Fifty-fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, Chicago, Illinois, 1943, n.p., no. 6. The American Academy of Arts and Letters and The National Institute of Arts and Letters, Works of Newly Elected Members and Recipients of 'Arts and Letters Grants', New York, 1945, exhibition checklist, p. 6, no. 1. The Century Association, Catalogue of the Fall Exhibition of Work by Artist Members, exhibition checklist, New York, 1946. University of Iowa, 3rd Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art, exhibition checklist, Iowa City, Iowa, 1947, no. 52. Cincinnati Art Museum, An American Show: The Cincinnati Art Museum Presents a Selection of Paintings by Six Living American Artists, exhibition catalogue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1948, n.p., no. 24. L. Goodrich, Edward Hopper, Harmondsworth, England, 1949, p. 10, pl. 16, illustrated. L. Goodrich, Edward Hopper Retrospective Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1950, pp. 10, 15, 55, no. 43, pl. 16, illustrated. University of Arizona, A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils and Watercolors by Edward Hopper, exhibition catalogue, Tucson, Arizona, 1963, p. 35, no. 29 (as Wind Over Weehawken). L. Goodrich, Edward Hopper, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1964, pp. 33, 65, no. 29, illustrated. L. Goodrich, "Portrait of the Artist," Woman's Day, February 1965, n.p., illustrated. J. Lanes, "Retrospective of Edward Hopper at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Whitney Museum in New York," The Burlington Magazine, vol. 107, January 1965, p. 45. W.C. Seitz, L. Goodrich, São Paulo 9, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1967, pp. 21, 22, 158, no. 18, illustrated. J. Lanes, "Edward Hopper: French Formalist, Ash Can Realist, Neither or Both?" Artforum, vol. 7, October 1968, p. 47, illustrated. L. Goodrich, Edward Hopper, New York, 1971, pp. 99, 100, 142, illustrated. The Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 225, no. 3, July 16, 1973, cover illustration. G.A. Scott, "Bookshelf," The Commonwealth, vol. 40, 1973, p. 64. P.K. Conkin, D. Burner, A History of Recent America, New York, 1974, cover illustration. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Portrait of Young America: A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, exhibition checklist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1975, p. 4, no. 21. The Spectator, vol. 235, 1975, p. 58. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976, A Special Bicentennial Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1976, pp. 222-23, 309, no. 285, illustrated. A. Ross, ed., The London Magazine, vol. 17, 1977, p. 66. M.W. Brown, The Modern Spirit: American Painting 1908-1935, exhibition catalogue, London, 1977, pp. 66, 72, no. 129, illustrated. J.P. Domecq, "Edward Hopper, ou l'énigme à plat," XXe Siècle, vol. 50, June 1978, pp. 20, 22, illustrated. G. Levin, Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1980, pp. 46, 194, pl. 248, illustrated. Arts Council of Great Britain, Edward Hopper, 1882-1967, exhibition catalogue, London, 1981, pp. 9, 44, no. 84. J. Spurling, "Standing Still," New Statesman, vol. 101, February 20, 1981, p. 23. N. Heller, J. Williams, Painters of the American Scene (formerly The Regionalists), New York, 1982, p. 117, fig. 51, illustrated. G. Levin, Hopper's Places, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1985, pp. 20, 25, pl. 2, illustrated. V. Raynor, "The Unusual, the Instructive and the Mysterious at Rutgers," The New York Times, October 20, 1985, p. 20. R. Hobbs, Edward Hopper, New York, 1987, p. 96, illustrated. N. Fresella-Lee, The American Paintings in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: An Illustrated Checklist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1989, p. 64, no. 643. R. Coles, "On Edward Hopper, Loneliness, and Children," The New York Times, March 3, 1991. C. Schwartz, F.H. Perrell, American Realism Between the Wars: 1919-1941, exhibition catalogue, Roslyn, New York, 1994, pp. 9, 10, 61, fig. 2, illustrated. G. Levin, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, vol. III, pp. 236-37, no. O-294, illustrated. R.E. Probst, Elements of Literature: Literature of the United States with Literature of the Americas, New York, 1997, p. 658, illustrated. G. Levin, Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, New York, 1998, p. 257. G. Levin, The Complete Oil Paintings of Edward Hopper, New York, 2001, pp. 236-37, no. O-294, illustrated. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-2005: 200 Years of Excellence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005, pp. 219, 309, pl. 117, illustrated. W. Wells, Silent Theatre: The Art of Edward Hopper, London, 2007, pp. 182, 185, no. 132, illustrated. L. Sherman, E.R. Gaulkin, Images of America: Weehawken, Charleston, South Carolina, 2009, p. 46, illustrated. D. Ottinger, et al., Hopper, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2012, pp. 39, 202, 332, no. 128, illustrated. G. Souter, Edward Hopper: Light and Dark, New York, 2012, p. 140.

Provenance:

The artist. [With]Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1952.