The Addison's collection numbers over 20,000 objects. While the galleries can only accommodate a fraction of the collection, virtually the entire collection is accessible through the Museum Learning Center.

Placeholder Text

Click here to download Museum Learning Center Portfolio Guides.

Collection

Artists: Edward Hopper

<<first <previous
next> last>>



Bookmark and Share
Artist(s): Edward Hopper (Nyack, NY, Jul 22, 1882 - May 15, 1967, New York, NY)
Title: Freight Cars, Gloucester
Date: 1928
Dimensions: 29 in. x 40 1/8 in. (73.66 cm x 101.92 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Gift of Edward Wales Root in recognition of the 25th Anniversary of the Addison Gallery, 1956.7

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Artists: Edward Hopper
Exhibitions: Learning to Look: The Addison at 90
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Visualizing Poetry

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, 12/13/1929 - 1/12/1930
25th Anniversary Gifts, Addison Gallery of American Art, 6/1/1957 - 6/30/1957
8th Boston Arts Festival, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 6/5/1959 - 6/28/1959
Cape Ann Festival of the Arts, 1961, Cape Ann Festival of the Arts, 7/23/1961 - 8/12/1961
Retrospective exhibition of oils and watercolors by Edward Hopper, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, University of Arizona, 4/20/1963 - 5/19/1963
Connecticut College Exhibition, Connecticut College, 9/15/1963 - 9/29/1963
American Painting 1910-1960, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Museum, 4/19/1964 - 5/10/1964
Edward Hopper: Oils, Watercolors, Prints, Edward W. Root Art Center, 5/10/1964 - 6/7/1964
Edward Hopper Retrospective Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, 9/29/1964 - 5/20/1965
Selections from the Addison Gallery of American Art, William Crapo Gallery, 10/27/1965 - 11/23/1965
Winterfest '66 [version of Roots and Promise of American Art], Winterfest, 2/18/1966 - 2/27/1966
Roots and Promise of American Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/10/1967 - 3/13/1967
Paintings from the Addison Gallery Collection, Showcase Cinema, 3/28/1967 - 4/25/1967
IX Bienal de São Paulo [Environment U.S.A., 1957-1967]
]], Smithsonian Institution, 9/23/1967 - 3/24/1968
Aspects of American Art History-Group Exhibition of Paintings Loaned from Coll, Fitchburg Art Museum, 10/1/1968 - 11/15/1968
New England Art from New England Museums, Brockton Art Museum, Fuller Memorial, 1/15/1969 - 3/2/1969
The Works, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1969 - 2/22/1970
Edward Hopper, 1862-1967: Oils, Watercolors, Etchings, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 7/9/1971 - 9/5/1971
Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Oils, Watercolors, Etchings, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 9/24/1971 - 11/28/1971
Edward Hopper, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1/12/1972 - 4/30/1972
Portrait of a Place: Some American Landscape Painters in Gloucester, Cape Ann Historical Association, 7/25/1973 - 9/5/1973
Nothing is Certain But Change, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/18/1975 - 5/18/1975
Five Decades of Collecting - Edward W. Root, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, 4/2/1978 - 8/27/1978
The Split-Up: The Beginning of a New Art in America, Addison Gallery of American Art, 3/13/1981 - 4/12/1981
The Gloucester Years, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Inc., 2/6/1982 - 3/4/1982
Edward W. Root, Collector and Teacher, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, 10/2/1982 - 11/14/1982
The New England Eye: Master American Paintings from New England School, College , Williams College Museum of Art, 9/9/1983 - 11/13/1983
Dissent: The Issue of Modern Art in Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2/18/1986 - 4/20/1986
Faculty Choice Show: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Photographs and Sculpture from, Addison Gallery of American Art, 7/5/1988 - 7/31/1988
The Art Triangle: Artist/Dealer/Collector, Burchfield-Penny Art Center, Buffalo State College, 3/18/1989 - 6/25/1989
The American City, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/18/1991 - 3/10/1991
Edward Hopper und die Fotografie: Die Wahrheit des Sichtbaren, Museum Folkwang, 6/28/1992 - 9/27/1992
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/5/1995 - 12/17/1995
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
Technology's Transformation of Perception and Reality in the American Landscape, Henry Art Gallery, 2/10/2000 - 2/10/2001
American Standard: (Para)Normality and Everyday Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 6/26/2002 - 8/16/2002
Conversations: A Collection in Dialogue, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/7/2003 - 7/31/2003
Art, Artists, and the Addison: Building a Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 3/30/2004 - 7/31/2004
75 Years of Giving, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/11/2006 - 7/31/2006
Mix and Match: A Conversation between Paintings and Works on Paper, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/23/2007 - 4/8/2007
Edward Hopper, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 5/6/2007 - 5/11/2008
Western Motel. Edward Hopper and Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Wien, 10/3/2008 - 2/15/2009
Inside, Outside, Upstairs, Downstairs: The Addison Anew, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/7/2010 - 3/27/2011
A Closer Look at Edward Hopper, Fenimore Art Museum, New York State Historical Association, 5/29/2011 - 9/5/2011
Hopper, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 6/12/2012 - 2/3/2013
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/27/2013 - 7/31/2013
Natural Selections, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/14/2013 - 3/16/2014
[Permanent Collection 201-5], Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/2014 - 7/31/2014
Searching for the Real, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/30/2015 - 7/31/2015
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/12/2015 - 3/13/2016
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/30/2016 - 7/31/2016
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2016 - 3/19/2017
Edward Hopper: A New Look on Landscape, Fondation Beyeler, 1/26/2020 - 9/20/2020
Learning to Look: The Addison at 90, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/8/2021 - 2/6/2022
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Creating an American Landscape [working title], Cape Ann Museum, 7/22/2023 - 10/16/2023

Your current search criteria is: Portfolio is "Artists: Edward Hopper"