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by Edward Hopper, 1950
American painter Edward Hopper painted this Cape Cod Morning in 1950, showing a woman leaning out of a bay window of a white clapboard house, gazing intently at something outside the frame. Bright morning sunlight hits the house's facade and the woman's face. Behind her, the room is dark. A strip of dense green foliage fills the middle ground.
Hopper and his wife Jo spent summers in Truro on Cape Cod from 1930 onward, and the local architecture appears throughout his work. The woman's pose suggests anticipation or longing, but Hopper never explained his narratives. He said, "If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint." The tension between what's visible and what's hidden drives the image.
The painting hangs at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Hopper's Cape Cod paintings capture a specific quality of New England light: hard, clear, and isolating, even on a beautiful morning.
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