Provenance

The artist, until 1967; to his widow, Jo Hopper, until 1968; to the Reverend Arthayer R. Sanborn until 2005, then to the Alexander Gallery, courtesy the Kennedy Gallery until October, 2007, then to a private collection until September, 2010, then to the present owner

Authenticity

Thurston Royce Gallery of Fine Art, Ltd.

Publication

Edward Hopper as Illustrator by Gail Levin (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979), No. 480.

Edward Hopper, A Catalogue Raisonne’ Volume I, page 135, fig. I-55

Exhibited

“Edward Hopper: Prints and Illustrations,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 27-December 9, 1979. This exhibition traveled to The Boston Museum of Fine Art; The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; The Detroit Institute of Art; The Milwaukee Art Center; and The Seattle Art Museum.

“Edward Hopper Drawings: The Poetry of Solitude,” Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 9–October 15, 1995.

“The Early Drawings of Edward Hopper”, Kennedy Galleries, New York, November 4-25, 1995