Edward Hopper

Cobb's Barns, South Truro

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May 17, 12:56 AM GMT

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8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD

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Sold by the Whitney Museum of American Art to Support Future Acquisitions

Edward Hopper

1882 - 1967

Cobb's Barns, South Truro

oil on canvas

34 by 49¾ in. 86.4 by 126.4 cm.

Executed in 1930-33.

Josephine N. Hopper, New York (acquired by descent from the artist in 1967)
Acquired by bequest from the estate of the above in 1970 by the present owner

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,” U.S.A. Today, vol. 109, 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, pp. 39 and 41, illustrated

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

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

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," The New York Times, 25 October 2015, illustrated

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

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, pp. 49, 63, illustrated
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, illustrated; fig. 5, p. 5, illustrated in brochure
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Iowa City, University of Iowa Museum of Art and Scottsdale Center for the Arts (and traveling), Edward Hopper: City, Country, Town: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986-88, pp. 14, 15 and 30, illustrated
Turin, Lingotto Galleries, Arte Americana 1930–1970, 1992
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, pp. 173, 260, illustrated
Washington, D.C., The White House, 2014 (on loan)
Basel, Fondational Beyeler, Edward Hopper, 2020, O-279, p. 77, illustrated