Watercolor over graphite on paper 13 7 8 x 20 in.
Mansard roof hopper.
He met his future wife josephine.
She was a painter too.
Watercolor over graphite on paper 13 7 8 x 20 in.
The mansard roof 1923.
It is a solid looking town.
35 2 x 50 8 cm.
A fellow art student in ny school of art they were both student.
A mansard or mansard roof also called a french roof or curb roof is a four sided gambrel style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope punctured by dormer windows at a steeper angle than the upper.
Brooklyn museum of art.
The mansard roof was created in 1923 by edward hopper in new realism style.
The mansard roof 1923.
At gloucester when everybody else would be painting ships and the waterfront i d just go fish around looking at houses.
35 2 x 50 8 cm.
The roofs are very bold the cornices bolder.
The steep roof with windows creates an additional floor of habitable space a garret and reduces the overall height of the roof for a given number of.
In this painting as is evident hopper had yet to develop the clean almost two dimensional style for which he later became known with his paintings of automats swimming pools and other features of modern life.
The dormers cast very positive shadows.