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Lighthouse at Two Lights

Edward Hopper

Lighthouse at Two Lights

Edward Hopper
  • Date: 1929
  • Style: New Realism
  • Genre: landscape
  • Media: oil, canvas
  • Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US
  • Dimensions: 109.9 x 74.9 cm
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In this work, Hopper isolates the dramatic silhouette of a lighthouse against an open expanse of blue sky. Set on a rocky promontory in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, the architecture is bathed in bright sunlight offset by dark shadows. Standing proudly upright and seen from below, the lighthouse at Two Lights seems to symbolize a resolute resistance, even refusal, to submit to change or nature. For Hopper, who had been summering in Maine since 1914, the lighthouse also signified a pleasurable reprieve from life in New York.

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Edward Hopper | The Lighthouse at Two Lights | The Met: www.metmuseum.org
The Lighthouse at Two Lights | Edward Hopper | 62.95 | Work of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: www.metmuseum.org
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