Edward Hopper

Recto:

(Sketches of Men's Heads, Bat Flying in Moonlit Sky, Bats, and Cat)

Verso:

(Three Studies: View of City Skyline, Landscape with Tree Line, and Tree)

1895–1899

Several quick ink sketches of men’s head profiles and flying birds with a small sunset scene.
Several quick ink sketches of men’s head profiles and flying birds with a small sunset scene.
Recto
Small ink sketches show a lone tree, a riverside fence, and a distant city skyline with boats.
Verso

Not on view

Date
1895–1899

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Pen and ink on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 5 5/16 × 7 11/16 in. (13.5 × 19.5 cm)

Accession number
70.1562.24a-b

Credit line
Josephine N. Hopper Bequest

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

API
artworks/22055

Part of a series:
(102 drawings)
102 works

Several quick ink sketches of people wearing hats arranged on lined notebook paper.
Various ink sketches of human figures, including a standing shirtless muscular man and several heads.
Several quick ink sketches of women in hats, including a full-length side profile and head studies.
A man in a sleeveless shirt squats while raising his hands as if exercising.
A pencil sketch of a standing nude woman in profile with faint figure studies around her.
A charcoal sketch of a man sitting sideways on a high stool with legs crossed.
Multiple ink sketches of men wearing tall hats, including one standing and gesturing.
A pencil sketch of a train approaching on tracks with a small figure holding a balloon nearby.
Several quick ink sketches showing hat designs and two men crouching or moving forward.
Several quick ink sketches of men, including a central man leaning forward with hand on table.


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