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East Wind Over Weehawken
East Wind Over Weehawken is an 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 1954 until its sale to an anonymous buyer in December 2013. That sale brought a record price for a Hopper.
Description.
"East Wind Over Weehawken" is a street scene of a "curiously mismatched collection of four houses" rendered in dark, earthy tones. It includes the gabled house at 1001
woman Artist." It was awarded from 1879 to 1968.
- Temple Gold Medal: The Joseph Temple Fund Gold Medal was awarded to the best oil painting by an American artist exhibited at PAFA's annual exhibition. It was awarded from 1883 to 1968.
Deaccessioning.
In 2013, the Academy sold "East Wind Over Weehawken" (1934), one of two Edward Hopper paintings in its collection, to start an endowment fund. About 25 percent of the fund will be used to fill gaps in the