A pencil sketch showing a steam train approaching a platform while people wait nearby.
Recto
Verso

Edward Hopper

Recto

(Sketches of Approaching Train, Male Figures, and Woman's Head)

Verso

(Sketches of Trains and Stick Figures)

1895–1899

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): 9 13/16 × 7 7/8 in. (24.9 × 20 cm)

Accession number
70.1562.30a-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/22062

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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