Edward Hopper's Houses

2 Quoted in Henry Adams, Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989), p. 129.

3 New York Tribune, November 25, 1923.

4 Interview with William Johnson, October 30, 1956, quoted in Gaff Levin, Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1995), p. 169.

5 Quoted in Andrew W. German, Down on T Wharf: The Boston Fisheries as Seen through the Photographs of Henry D. Fisher (Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut, 1982), p. 116.

6 The year before Hopper went to Two Lights, local mariners had energetically protested the demolition of the western light. Even though the light was no longer functional, their efforts to save the tower were successful.

7 One of the legendary keepers was Marcus A. Hanna, the keeper of Two Lights in the 1870s and 1880s. Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for service during the Civil War, he had also received the United States Life Saving Service gold medal for his efforts to rescue survivors of the shipwrecked schooner Australia in January 1885.

8 Latham's obituary in Portland Sunday Telegram, June 7, 1942.

9 William B. Jordan Jr., The History of Cape Elizabeth (1965; Heritage Books, Bowie, Maryland, 1987), p. 241.

10 William B. Jordan, History of Cape Elizabeth, Maine (House of Falmouth, Portland, 1965), pp. 227-228. Robert Thayer Sterling, assistant keeper of the Portland Head Light, told the dramatic tale of the rescue in Lighthouses of the Maine Coast, and the Men Who Keep Them (Stephen Daye Press, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1935), pp. 165-167.

13 I am grateful to Harriet J. Hobbs, who provided copies of information developed by the Historic American Buildings Survey about this building, its original owners, and the architectural changes it has undergone, and to Jean Hobbs for showing me the house.

14 William Worthington to Milton Wright, May 11, 1980 (Truro Historical Society Museum, Truro, Massachusetts). I would like to thank Patricia Bartlett, for sharing her family album and memorabilia, and Diane Worthington, for her rich fount of information about her father and the history and geography of the Truro area.

15 Worthington to Wright, May 11, 1980.

16 Katharine Kuh, The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists (Harper and Row, New York, 1962), pp. 134, 140.