Edward Hopper on Cape Cod

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"Razzmatazz" is not a word one would use for Edward Hopper. This American painter is far from it. Instead, Hopper's work holds a spareness that bespeaks simplicity, isolation, and solitude. 

His Cape Cod oeuvre is mostly from Truro, the stretch of land between Provincetown and Wellfleet. It is here that Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 - May 15, 1967) first visited in 1930, and painted forty of his eighty-four summers. Over the decades, and as his work developed, he returned to a minimalist subject: old wooden houses in an open stretch of beach or heath.

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We were recently on the Cape. The photos I took remind me of Hopper's work. The luminosity of light and the sharpness of shadow are stunning. 

And here is a shot of the Truro landscape that inspired Hopper.

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