Clearing in Edward Hopper Landscape Shocks Truro Neighbors

“Clearing in Hopper Landscape Shocks Neighbors”
The Cape Codder, May 15, 2008
By Kevin Mullaney

TRURO -- The first scar has appeared on the ridge next to the former studio in Truro of famed American painter Edward Hopper, in the so-called Hopper Landscape.

The clearing is the result of an archeological investigation just completed, a requirement imposed before Donald and Andrea Kline can proceed with their plans to build the low-slung, 6,500-square-foot house ...

In March the Klines received the Cape Cod Commission’s blessing on conservation and other restrictions they had proposed ... putting 6.4 acres of the nine-acre property under conservation restriction. ... ©

Read the full article in The Cape Codder.

Related articles:

• “Kline Project Ok'd by Cape Cod Commission,”
    Provincetown Banner, March 8, 2008

• “A Town Tries to Protect an Artist’s Inspiration,”
    The New York Times, September 20, 2007

• “Mansion May Obscure What Hopper Painted,”
    The Boston Globe, August 15, 2007

Also, see the Save the Edward Hopper Landscape blog and checkout a neat poster of The Hopper Landscape (with photographs by J. B. Hightower).