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Edward Hopper
Ground Swell, 1939
Hopper's lifelong enthusiasm for the sea developed as a boy in Nyack, New York, then a prosperous Hudson River port with an active shipyard. Years later, in 1934, he and his wife built a house and studio on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where he produced a number of paintings manifesting his avid interest in nautical subjects. In this quiet view, the several figures aboard the boat are disengaged from each other. Their gazes seem fixed on the bell buoy, their resulting trancelike state reinforced by the rolling waves beneath them. |