House by the Railroad

Edward Hopper · 1925

This is House by the Railroad, painted by Hopper in nineteen twenty-five. Hitchcock borrowed this lonely mansard house for Psycho, and the Addams Family borrowed it after him — a painting that quietly became the shape American film reaches for when it wants dread.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 24 x 29" (61 x 73.7 cm) · Credit Given anonymously

Hanging beside it in Gallery 521: Christina's World, Barber Shop Chord

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Willows, Bucks County Barn, Shipyard-workers' housing--built during the Second World War--being moved from San Pedro to South-Central Los Angeles from the series Fish Story, Walking House, The Shape of Things, American System-Built Houses for The Richards Company, project, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Perspective of model A243

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