A standing male figure sketch seen from behind holding a horizontal pole, with study heads nearby.

Edward Hopper

(Male Nude with Staff, Rear View, and Sketches of Heads and Foot)

1900–1906

Not on view

3,151 works in the collection
68 exhibitions

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Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 15 1/16 × 11 1/4 in. (38.3 × 28.6 cm)

Accession number
70.1564.9

Credit line
Josephine N. Hopper Bequest

Rights and reproductions
© Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/22041

Part of a series:
(18 drawings)
17 works

Several pencil sketches showing a standing figure within an arch and seated, pensive figures hugging their knees.

Large canvas tent set up among trees with table, bucket, and camp gear outside.

Several pencil studies showing a standing nude man, a skeletal diagram, muscle sketches, and faces.

Standing nude man sketched in charcoal, seen from behind holding a long pole.

Multiple charcoal figure sketches showing a man gripping a pole and walking, with head studies.

Standing nude male figure with one hand on hip and the other arm extended outward.

A man in a top hat stands watching a caged ape leaning on the bars.

An artist's charcoal sketch of a seated woman in a bonnet and apron, hands clasped on her lap.

Pencil sketches showing study of male legs and several men's head portraits on paper.

A seated man wearing a feathered headdress and cloak sits with arms folded, sketched in charcoal.