Edward hopper american 1882 1967.
Mansard roof hopper.
Edward hopper wasn t popular nor famous 1923 he was forty years old tried a lot of things but still wasn t famous.
35 2 x 50 8 cm.
At gloucester when everybody else would be painting ships and the waterfront i d just go fish around looking at houses.
A mansard or mansard roof also called a french roof or curb roof is a four sided gambrel style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope punctured by dormer windows at a steeper angle than the upper.
The dormers cast very positive shadows.
The mansard roof was created in 1923 by edward hopper in new realism style.
Watercolor over graphite on paper 13 7 8 x 20 in.
He met his future wife josephine.
The mansard roof 1923.
35 2 x 50 8 cm.
Brooklyn museum of art.
Watercolor over graphite on paper 13 7 8 x 20 in.
In this painting as is evident hopper had yet to develop the clean almost two dimensional style for which he later became known with his paintings of automats swimming pools and other features of modern life.
She was a painter too.
It is a solid looking town.
The mansard roof 1923.
The steep roof with windows creates an additional floor of habitable space a garret and reduces the overall height of the roof for a given number of.