ID: 700000383 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000383	Record Type: Movable Work
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The Lighthouse at Two Lights (oil painting (visual work); Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967); 1929; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 62.95)

Note: Hopper isolates the dramatic silhouette of a lighthouse against an open expanse of blue sky. Set on a rocky promontory in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, the architecture is bathed in bright sunlight offset by dark shadows. Standing proudly upright and seen from below, the lighthouse at Two Lights seems to symbolize a resolute resistance, even refusal, to submit to change or nature. For Hopper, who had been summering in Maine since 1914, the lighthouse also signified a pleasurable reprieve from life in New York.

Titles:

The Lighthouse at Two Lights (preferred,C,U,D,RP,English-P,U,P)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

oil painting (visual work) [300033799] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1929

Creator Display:

Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967) [preferred,VP]

painter Hopper, Edward (American painter, 1882-1967) [500031212]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 62.95

Credit Line: Hugo Kastor Fund, 1962

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: 74.9 x 109.9 cm (H. 29-1/2, W. 43-1/4 in.)

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	lighthouse [300007741]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, transportation structures, transportation buildings, water transportation buildings) (AAT)

	Cape Elizabeth [2044555]
	.....(Cumberland county (county), Maine (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

Provenance: the artist (1929); Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Tucker, New York (1929–ca. 1959); Richard D. Tucker, New York (in 1959); Lawrence Fleischman, Detroit (ca. 1959–at least 1960); [Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York, until 1962; sold to MMA]

Inscriptions: Signature: [lower right]: Edward Hopper

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
The Lighthouse at Two Lights	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 21 May 2012

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/489258, accessed 18 March 2018