Hopper Landscape Threatened by Mansion

Plans are afoot to build a "6,500-square-foot mansion" in the middle of the "Hopper landscape" reports the Boston Globe. (Note: the Boston Globe requires registration in order to read its articles; if you don't want to, use one of these from BugMeNot.com.)

"This is no battle between the haves and the have-nots, but rather a battle between the have and the have-mores. ...The neighbors fault the Klines ... for what they believe is violating the code of the Cape, proposing what they call a monstrosity and a trophy house when a smaller house or the existing 191-year-old home already on the Klines' property would do just fine.

Edward Hopper was a realist painter who visited the area for several summers to paint before building a house there, in 1933. The photo here shows the view of his house from the beach, and was taken by Painting Forum member Painter421 who visited the area in July. What marvelous light must flow in through that big window on the side!

Carol Troyen, curator of the current Hopper block-buster exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Art is quoted as saying Hopper painted "at least a third of his work ... in or of Truro between 1930 and his death in 1967". I can only imagine what Hopper might have said to someone planning to build a mansion in his view...! Read the full Boston Globe article...

More on Hopper:
• Art Glossary: Edward Hopper
• Hopper Exhibition Website (Museum of Fine Art, Boston)

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