East Wind Over Weehawken
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| East Wind Over Weehawken | |
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| Artist | Edward Hopper |
| Year | 1934 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 86.4 cm × 127.6 cm (34 in × 50.2 in) |
| Location | private collection |
East Wind Over Weehawken is a 1934 oil painting on canvas by American realist painter Edward Hopper. It was held in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the United States from 1952 until its sale to an anonymous buyer in December 2013. That sale brought a record price for a Hopper.
East Wind Over Weehawken is a street scene of a "curiously mismatched collection of four houses"[1] rendered in dark, earthy tones. It includes the gabled house at 1001 Boulevard East at the corner of 49th Street in Weehawken, New Jersey (40°46′43″N 74°00′47″W / +40.7785°N 74.0130°W)[2][3] and was painted during the Great Depression.[4] The piece measures 34 x 50.2 inches or 86.4 x 127.6 centimeters.[5]
The work was created during the winter of 1934.[6] Hopper writes in his poem about this painting that "only the grass, the uncut dead grass, shows where the wind is."[7]
The view of the Weehawken street remains mostly unchanged.[8][9] In 2013, Weehawken resident and comedian Susie Felber commissioned a modern remake of the painting in order to raise money for the Weehawken PTPO (a parent–teacher participating association). The remake, which was created by Brooklyn-based painter Stephen Gardner, depicts the scene as it appears now, with flowers and satellite dishes, and in lighter tones. Gardner's derivative painting was purchased on eBay for $510 by computer programmer Ligia Builes, who owns the house depicted in the painting.[2]