Cape Cod Morning

GG Central is under-the-weather & so we'll post just a little bit through month's end & then take a summer break.*

We're in a birthday acknowledgment mood--it makes things easier, yes. So today, it is Edward Hopper (1882-1967), American painter. This is Cape Cod Morning (1950), in the collection at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum. American Art's nicely done An Edward Hopper Scrapbook & Artcyclopedia's page on Hopper painting holdings world-wide.

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*Before we take a break, all information regarding Darfur Baskets & their acquisition-by-you will be posted on the front page.

[Cape Cod Morning image via Smithsonian]

Tables for Ladies

Detail of Edward Hopper's Table for Ladies, oil on canvas, 1930, Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Via scan from our 2007 Metropolitan Museum of Art agenda, New York, New York)

The text for this agenda page, by Carolyn Vaughan: Hopper understood the seeming contradiction that a person can feel completely alone in the middle of the nation's most crowded city, and his paintings often convey a feeling of urban melancholy. Here the cashier and the waitress seem to inhabit separate worlds, preoccupied as they are with their thoughts and tasks. We feel we know far more about the chops, the lettuce, and the pineapple in the display than we do about these two women.

Now, off to do the taxes; GG can't do them as her secret opposable thumbs remain retracted. Funny how that happens when help is most needed.

ciao-cheeky-meow/GG's editor