Edward Hopper

34 by 49 ¾ in.

86.4 by 126.4 cm.

Josephine N. Hopper, New York (acquired by descent from the artist in 1967)

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (acquired by bequest from the estate of the above in 1970)

Sotheby’s, New York, 16 May 2023, lot 145 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Seattle Art Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art (and traveling), Edward Hopper: Selections from the Hopper Bequest, 1971-76, no. 43, p. 49, illustrated in color; p. 63

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Art Institute of Chicago (and traveling), Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist, 1981-82, no. 80, p. 283, pl. 408, illustrated in color; fig. 5, p. 5, illustrated in brochure

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Iowa City, University of Iowa Museum of Art; Arizona, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Williamsburg, Virginia, College of William and Mary, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Edward Hopper: City, Country, Town: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986-88, n.p.

Turin, Lingotto Galleries, Arte Americana 1930–1970, 1992, p. 74, illustrated in color

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hopper: Paintings and Watercolors, 1993

Milan, Palazzo Reale; Rome, Fondazione Roma Museo and Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Edward Hopper, 2009-10, no. 5.12, p. 173, illustrated in color and p. 260

Washington, D.C., The White House, 2014 (on loan)

Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Edward Hopper: A Fresh Look at Landscape, 2020, p. 77, illustrated in color; p. 142

Douglas Davis, “A Master’s Legacy,” Newsweek, 1971, p. 99

Louis Chapin, “The Whitney Bequest: Hopper’s ‘Enduring Visual Lessons’,” Christian Science Monitor, 9 October 1971, p. 10

Gail Levin, “Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist,” USA Today, vol. 109, no. 2426, November 1980, p. 33

Craig Little, “Hopper Show Expresses Cape Mood,” Cape Cod Times, 1980, p. 13

Rolf Gunter Renner, Edward Hopper 1882-1967: Transformationen Des Realen, Cologne, 1990, p. 39, illustrated in color; p. 41

Carl Little, Edward Hopper’s New England, San Francisco, 1993, no. 25, n.p., illustrated in color

Gail Levin, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, New York, 1995, no. O-279, p. 211, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art (and traveling), Edward Hopper, 2007, p. 159

Michael D. Shear, "For Obamas, a More Abstract Choice of Art," New York Times, 25 October 2015, illustrated in color (installed in situ in the Oval Office)

Larry Buchanan and Matt Stevens, "The Art in the Oval Office Tells a Story. Here's How to See It," New York Times, 5 May 2021, illustrated