Lighthouse Village (also known as Cape Elizabeth)
Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967)
1929
- Medium
- Watercolor with graphite and scraping on paper
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 40.5 x 63.3 cm (15 15/16 x 24 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Edward Hopper made this watercolor during the last of several painting excursions that he took to Maine. He had painted the lighthouse at Cape Elizabeth once two years before, but found the structure so interesting that he returned to it in this drawing. Hopper was especially attracted to the varying green tones of the grass and the combination of buildings, each with a different purpose, including one where the lighthouse keepers slept and the three at the bottom where coast guard families lived. He used a slightly different tone of watercolor for each of the structures to accurately convey the reflection of light on them.
