Edward Hopper

Study for Summer in the City
1949

A sketch on tan paper depicting a figure seated on the edge of a bed in a sparsely furnished room with tall windows or doors, casting light across the floor and the bed. The lines are loose and expressive, suggesting an unfinished study or a moment captured in haste.

A sketch on tan paper depicting a figure seated on the edge of a bed in a sparsely furnished room with tall windows or doors, casting light across the floor and the bed. The lines are loose and expressive, suggesting an unfinished study or a moment captured in haste.

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Date
1949

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Fabricated chalk and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/2 × 11in. (21.6 × 27.9 cm)

Accession number
70.268

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest

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

API
artworks/6228

Exhibitions

Hopper Drawing

May 23–Oct 6, 2013

Edward Hopper
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