A Massachusetts native, she painted geometrically precise images of rural and seaside New England dwellings that found fans among the storied magazine’s ardent readers.

Gretchen Dow Simpson, an acclaimed Rhode Island painter whose moody, highly geometric images of seaside cottages, snow-covered farms and other totems of New England life drew comparisons to Edward Hopper and graced the covers of 58 issues of The New Yorker, died on April 11 at her home in Providence, R.I. She was 85.

The cause was complications of Lewy body dementia, her daughter Megan Wolff said.

Ms. Simpson was best known for her meditative images of the seaside and country architecture of the Northeastern seaboard — “those rather Protestant exteriors and interiors that Edward Hopper was so taken with,” Carl Little wrote in 1997 in reviewing a Manhattan exhibition of her work for Art in America.

While modest, solitary buildings were often her subject matter, Ms. Simpson’s work was

Keep reading this article on The New York Times Media & Advertising.