Edward Hopper

(Bricklayer's Coffee Break)
1907–1910

Illustration of a young person sitting on a brick ledge, drinking from a cup with a metal lunch pail beside them. The scene is framed within a circular border, and the image is stylized with a decorative scroll at the top and a blank banner at the bottom, suggesting a vintage advertisement or poster.

Illustration of a young person sitting on a brick ledge, drinking from a cup with a metal lunch pail beside them. The scene is framed within a circular border, and the image is stylized with a decorative scroll at the top and a blank banner at the bottom, suggesting a vintage advertisement or poster.

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Date
1907–1910

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Pen and brown ink, transparent and opaque watercolor, and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 17 3/16 × 11 3/8in. (43.7 × 28.9 cm)

Accession number
70.1614

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/6961

Exhibitions

Edward Hopper’s New York

Oct 19, 2022–Mar 5, 2023

Edward Hopper
3,151 works in the collection

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