Koch Hopper Paitings to Addison Art Gallery
Philip Koch, Rooms by the Sea III, oil on panel, 8 2/3 x 13", 2014 Last week I sent three of my oils up to Addison Art Gallery in Orleans, MA on Cape Cod. They will be shown as part of the Gallery's two year long After Hopper project in conjunction with the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis, MA. Edward Hopper (with Jo Hopper in the background) sitting in front of the Truro studio in a photo by Arnold Newman In 1983 I began a long series of residencies in Edward Hopper's studio. He chose to build it high on the ridge of a sand dune overlooking Cape Cod Bay in S. Truro. The artist had scouted out the location in 1930 during his first extended stay on Cape Cod. He even lovingly painted the site that would later be home to his studio in his 1930 oil Hills, South Truro pictured below (now in the Cleveland Museum of Art). It suited the reclusive Hopper perfectly as back then the Cape was a far lonelier place. My painting Rooms by the Sea III was