Paintings Reproductions Cobbs Barns and Distant Houses, 1930 by Edward Hopper (Inspired By) (1931-1967, United States) | WahooArt.com

Edward Hopper (i) - 1930 - New Realism (i) Edward Hopper has a distinguishable style and aura to his work, portraying the sense of desolace, an empty sorrow or feelings or boredom, the desire to escape. In his painting Cobb's Barns and Distant Houses, the aging and unused barns are not motifs of nostalgia but a reality of America during the Depression. He had rented Burly Cobb’s house when he painted this image as part of a series that looked upon the summers of Cape Cod and how it was affected by the Depression. Hopper memorialized the passing a.way of life in rural America, the population had declined and the farm lands were deserted. He portrays the scene from a unique perspective, as if it was seen by a traveller in a car or motorcycle, it is bathed in stunning passages of light and shadow, only implying the tragedy through the lack of crops and overgrown weeds. The autumnal colours gestures to the senses, as if the viewer can smell the countryside.