Edward Hopper

Study for Ground Swell

1939

A small sailboat with a tilted mast resting on a dark shoreline.
A small sailboat with a tilted mast resting on a dark shoreline.

Edward Hopper, Study for Ground Swell, 1939. Fabricated chalk and graphite pencil on paper, sheet: 8 9/16 × 11 in. (21.7 × 27.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest 70.868. © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Date
1939

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Fabricated chalk and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 9/16 × 11 in. (21.7 × 27.9 cm)

Accession number
70.868

Credit line
Josephine N. Hopper Bequest

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

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Edward Hopper
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