A pencil sketch shows a steamship head-on with smoke rising above and waves below.
Recto
Verso

Edward Hopper

Recto

(Study of a Steamship at Sea)

Verso

(Sketches of Bearded Man in Profile and Numbers)

1892–1895

Not on view

3,151 works in the collection
68 exhibitions
View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/31393

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 5 × 4 in. (12.7 × 10.2 cm)

Accession number
70.1561.69a-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/31393

Part of a series:
(209 drawings)
207 works

Rear-view sketch of a uniformed figure with boots and long hair alongside a mustached man in a cape.
A torn notebook page with ink sketches of a woman walking with outstretched arms and portrait studies.
A standing man sketch wearing a beret, loose trousers, and hands on his hips.
A quick ink sketch shows a young girl sitting on a bench with a second head study.
Nude woman stands with weight on one leg and reaches her arm outward.
Multiple ink sketches showing a standing nude figure stretching arms and several head study sketches.
A tall lighthouse stands on a rocky shore with small buildings and calm sea.
A standing soldier in ornate uniform with a baton and the name "Etinne Gerard" below.
A man and woman embrace and kiss in the center of a page filled with doodled faces.
An expressive pencil sketch of an older person in profile with windblown hair and a smile.

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