1982.37: Jenness House, Truro

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

Permissions

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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
• Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 2, Page 49

Exhibition History

• American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006
• American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

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