Edward Hopper's lifelong enthusiasm for the sea developed when he was a boy in Nyack, New York, then a prosperous Hudson River port with an active shipyard. Years later, in 1934, he and his wife built a house and studio in South Truro, Massachusetts, where he produced a number of oil paintings and watercolors manifesting his avid interest in nautical subjects. In this quiet and voyeuristic view, the several figures aboard the boat are disengaged from each other. Their gazes seem fixed on the bell buoy and their resulting trancelike state is reinforced by the rolling waves beneath them.
A ground swell is often caused by a far-off storm felt even under clear skies - causing a buoy to ring even when there's no danger. The idea of threat in an idyllic setting has crucial precedents. In a work painted around 1639 by French classicist Nicolas Poussin, shepherds come across a tomb whose inscription -- "I too once lived in Arcadia" -- brings death into their idyll. Hopper's woman and his three half-naked men echo Poussin's rapt figures.
In late summer 1939, threat of World War II was in the air, and artists responded to it. The ocean in "Ground Swell" thus parallels the waves of anger and fear, while its buoy sounds the alarm.
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