Edward Hopper: Drawings of New York and Cape Cod

4. High Noon (Study)

1949 Charcoal on paper 8 7/16 x 11 in. (21.4 x 27.9 cm)

EXHIBITIONS: New York, Peter Findlay Gallery. Edward Hopper: The Capezzera Drawings . 2005. Excat, p. 13. LITERATURE: G. Levin. Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné . New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1995. vol. III, p. 328, fig. 340.2. Our drawing is a study for a painting in the collection of the Dayton Art Institute, Ohio. Hopper and his wife Jo bought a house on Cape Cod in 1934 and would spend 40 years summering there. This depiction of a single house, not sheltered by trees, with a single figure standing in the doorway is emblematic of Hopper’s cinematic vision of isolation and benign solitude.