{"data":{"id":"5908","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":5908,"topgoose_id":18712,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":5908,"title":"New York Interior","display_artist_text":"Edward Hopper","display_date":"c. 1921","accession_number":"70.1200","dimensions":"Overall: 24 5/16 × 29 3/8 in. (61.8 × 74.6 cm)\r\nFrame (2019): 27 7/8 × 32 3/16 × 2 1/8 in. (70.8 × 81.8 × 5.4 cm)","medium":"Oil on canvas","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Josephine N. Hopper Bequest","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdward Hopper, \u003cem\u003eNew York Interior\u003c/em\u003e, c. 1921. Oil on canvas, overall: 24 5/16 × 29 3/8 in. (61.8 × 74.6 cm)\r\nFrame (2019): 27 7/8 × 32 3/16 × 2 1/8 in. (70.8 × 81.8 × 5.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest 70.1200. © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eEdward Hopper frequently represented people as they appeared to him in brightly lit windows seen from passing El trains. An early example of Hopper’s interest in enigmatic indoor scenes, \u003ci\u003eNew York Interior\u003c/i\u003e depicts the turned back of a young woman sewing. This unconventional view suggests the impersonal—and yet strangely intimate—quality of modern urban life, as glimpsed voyeuristically through a window. The woman's clothing and gesture are reminiscent of the iconic ballet dancers painted by French Impressionist Edgar Degas, whom Hopper singled out as the artist whose work he most admired. A partially obscured, framed portrait on the left also appeared in an earlier work, \u003ci\u003eArtist’s Bedroom, Nyack\u003c/i\u003e, (1903-06). By including a reference to his past painting, Hopper challenges the impression that we have caught a fleeting glimpse of an anonymous scene. \u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A woman in a white dress sits on a bed, her back to the viewer, reaching for the mantel.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":true,"created_at":"2017-08-31T10:31:41.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:31.482-05:00","images":[{"id":97427,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/5908/70_1200_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"621","type":"artist"}]}}}}