Edward Hopper at Two Lights

Edward Hopper
at Two Lights in 1927

The following five views are views in a clockwise view around the Light at Two Lights, starting with this view looking northwest from Dyer Point to the other side looking east-northeast.

Light at Two Lights
Edward Hopper (1882-1967, American
Chalk and charcoal on paper, 16" x 15" (w x h), 1927
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Edward Hopper's wife Jo wrote that Hopper's "lighthouses are self-portraits." Likely, she was referring to his tall singular figure and reserved personality. Perhaps that's also insight into the fact that of the many New England lighthouse paintings of Edward Hopper only one, includes figures, four men wearing hats in Pemaquid Light, watercolor, 1929, Portland Museum of Art.

Lighthouse Hill
Edward Hopper (1882-1967, American
Oil on canvas, 40" x 29" (w x h), 1927
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Light at Two Lights
Edward Hopper (1882-1967, American
Watercolor and graphite pencil on paper,
20" x 14" (w x h), 1927

May 26, 2023, view looking northeast up the street to the private residence at Two lights Lighthouse at dusk.

Captain Upton's House
Edward Hopper (1882-1967, American
Oil on canvas, 36" x 28" (w x h), 1927
Private Collection, Steve Martin

Steve Martin:
"I have lived with a few great paintings (Captain Upton's House being the best among them)... I was startled when I eventually focused on the five angled plates of glass in the lighthouse reflecting an afternoon sun. From left to right, one is a dark blue-gray, showing a dimmed sky. The next is a strike of unbroken paint as white as the lighthouse itself - pure glare. The next is an unexpected pane of bright orange, a refracted sun; then a darker orange, and then darker still as the glass wraps around the tower." - Painting on loan, catalogue, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, 2011