Rooms for Tourists
Edward Hopper's paintings of buildings are portraits, in which the human presence is implied but not seen. In Rooms for Tourists, Hopper portrays the exterior of a boarding house in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He made study drawings of the building and then traveled there repeatedly at night while he worked on the painting. The contrast between the warm, electrically lit interior and the darkness of night outside captures the sense of transience and impermanence inherent in the boarding house's impersonal arrivals and departures.
Geography: Made in United States
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Credit: Bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903
1945
Oil on canvas
76.8 x 107.0cm
1961.18.30
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