Tuesday, May 20, 2008

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).

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