American Landscape

Edward Hopper

1920 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

In this unconventional rural life, cows clamber over railroad tracks towards a wooden house and outbuildings. Hopper produced about 70 etchings between 1915 and 1923. He had returned to New York from Europe in 1910 and explored this new medium when his paintings failed to find buyers. In addition to landscapes inspired by summer visits to Maine and Massachusetts, his prints evoke memories of France, and show men and women experiencing the distinct urban character of New York. After Hopper received two awards for his prints in 1923—the Logan Prize from the Chicago Society of Etchers and the W. A. Bryan Prize—he refocused his energies on painting, often returning to subjects that he had used etching to shape.

Artist

Edward Hopper

Date

1920

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925