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The Lily Apartments by Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper

The Lily Apartments, 1926

watercolor and pencil on paper
35.6 x 50.8 cm (14 x 20 in)
Works on Paper
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Nov 10, 2022
Christie'sNew YorkVisionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection Part II153
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Artwork Description
Category

Works on Paper

Dimensions

35.6 x 50.8 cm (14 x 20 in)

Materials

watercolor and pencil on paper

Signature

signed 'Edward Hopper/New York' (lower right)

Provenance

Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York (1926).

Mrs. L.L. Coburn, Chicago, acquired from the above.

Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York (1928).

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit (1954).

Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York.

Mr. and Mrs. Joel William Harnett, New York (acquired from the above, 1963).

Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York (1989).

Private collection (acquired from the above, 1994).

Godel & Co. Fine Art, New York (2006).

Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2008.

Exhibited

New York, Frank K.M. Rehn Gallery, Recent Works by Edward Hopper , February-March 1927, no. 7.

Hartford, Morgan Memorial, Exhibition of Water Colors of Edward Hopper , November-December 1928.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition , November-December 1933, no. 42 (illustrated).

The Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings by Edward Hopper , January 1934, no. 43.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, An Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, and Etchings by Edward Hopper , March-April 1937, no. 91.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Eighteenth Annual International Exhibition: Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings and Monotypes , March-May 1939.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, This is Our City: An Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints Presented for the Greater New York Fund , March-April 1941.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts and Detroit Institute of Arts, Edward Hopper Retrospective Exhibition , February-July 1950, p. 22, no. 86 (illustrated).

New Delhi, All-India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, American Water Color Exhibition , October 1954, no. 27.

Detroit Institute of Arts, Collection in Progress: Selections from the Lawrence and Barbara Fleischman Collection of American Art , September-October 1955, p. 35, no. 41 (illustrated as Manhattan Bridge and Lily Apartments ).

Manchester, Currier Gallery of Art; Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art and Hartford, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Watercolors by Edward Hopper with a Selection of his Etchings , October 1959-February 1960, no. 4.

Milwaukee Art Center, American Painting 1760-1960: A Selection of 125 Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman , March-April 1960, p. 88 (illustrated).

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts and City Art Museum of St. Louis, Edward Hopper , September 1964-May 1965, no. 89.

New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, The New York Painter: A Century of Teaching, Morse to Hofmann , September-October 1967, pp. 52 and 89 (illustrated, p. 52).

New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Ten Americans: Masters of Watercolor , May-June 1974, no. 81 (illustrated).

Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Oils and Watercolors by Edward Hopper , June-September 1975, no. C-8 (illustrated).

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 20th Century American Art from Friends' Collections , July-September 1977.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; London, Hayward Gallery; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Dusseldorf, Stadtische Kunsthalle; Art Institute of Chicago and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist , September 1980-February 1982, p. 189 (illustrated in color, pl. 240).

University of Richmond, The Marsh Gallery, The Harnett Collection of American Paintings , January 1989.

Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Edward Hopper: The Watercolors , October 1999-March 2000, pp. 46-47 (illustrated in color, p. 46).

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hopper Drawing , May-October 2013, pp. 95-96, 233, no. 159 (illustrated in color, p. 95).

Literature

Artist's Record Book I , p. 63.

C.H., “An American Artist” in New York Sun , 24 November 1933, p. 29 (illustrated as Manhattan Bridge and Lily Apartments ).

American Artists Group, Edward Hopper , New York, 1945 (illustrated as Manhattan Bridge and Lily Apartments ).

L. Goodrich, Edward Hopper , New York, 1949, (illustrated as Manhattan Bridge and Lily Apartments , pl. 6).

L. Goodrich, A Silent World: a Portfolio of Eight Watercolors and Drawings by Edward Hopper , New York, 1966 (illustrated).

L. Harnett, “Weekend in New York” in Newburgh Citizen Herald , 24 May 1967, p. 21 (illustrated as Manhattan Bridge and Lily Apartments ).

G. McCoy, “The Best Things of Their Kind Since Homer” in Archives of American Art Journal, vol. 7, July-October 1967, p. 13.

A.T.E. Gardner and M.W. Brown, The New York Painter: A Century of Teaching, Morse to Hofmann , New York, 1967, pp. 52, 89 (illustrated).

L. Goodrich, Edward Hopper , New York, 1971, p. 185 (illustrated as Manhattan Bridge and Lily Apartments ).

G. Levin, Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist, New York, 1980, p. 189 (illustrated).

G. Levin, Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Gemälde und Zeichnungen , Munich, 1981, p. 189 (illustrated).

British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Arts Department, documentary film on Edward Hopper, February 1981.

G. Levin, Edward Hopper , New York, 1984, p. 30 (illustrated in color, as Manhattan Bridge and Lily Apartments ).

G. Levin, Hopper's Places , New York, 1985, p. 19 (as Manhattan Bridge and Lily Apartments ).

J.A. Ward, American Silences: The Realism of James Agee, Walker Evans and Edward Hopper , Baton Rouge, 1985, p. 177 (as Manhattan Bridge and Lily Apartments ).

Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., American Paintings VI , New York, 1990, pp. 156-59 (illustrated in color as Manhattan Bridge and Lily Apartments , p. 159).

Neues Publishing Company calendar, published 1991.

G. Levin, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. II, New York, 1995, p. 102, no. W-133 (illustrated in color).

G. Levin, Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography , New York, 1995, p. 198.

G. Levin, The Complete Watercolors of Edward Hopper , New York, 2001, p. 102, no. W-133 (illustrated in color).

A. Berman, Edward Hopper's New York , San Francisco, 2005, pp. 79 and 82-83 (illustrated in color, pp. 82-83).

B. Weber, Paintings of New York, 1800-1950 , San Francisco, 2005, pp. 47-49 (illustrated in color as Manhattan Bridge and Lily Apartments , p. 48).

B.T. Clause, Edward Hopper in Vermont, Hanover and London, 2012, p. 148.

Description

EDWARD HOPPER (1882-1967)

The Lily Apartments

signed 'Edward Hopper/New York' (lower right)

watercolor and pencil on paper

14 x 20 in. (35.6 x 50.8 cm.)

Executed in 1926