Edward Hopper: Drawings of New York and Cape Cod

5. Study for Portrait of Orleans

1950 Pencil on Bond paper 10 1/2 x 16 in. (26.7 x 40.6 cm)

EXHIBITIONS: New York, Peter Findlay Gallery. Edward Hopper: The Capezzera Drawings . 2005. Excat, p. 15. LITERATURE: G. Levin. Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné . New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1995. vol. III, p. 332, fig. 342.1. Our drawing is a study for the painting Portrait of Orleans , in the collection of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. This portrait of a town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts gives us a nostalgic view of Main Street America. It captures the moment of transformation of the American landscape after World War II, nostalgically referencing the past while hinting at the rise of the postwar car culture in the 1950s.