Edward Hopper

Study for Rooms for Tourists
1945

A sketch on paper featuring various architectural elements and notes on color and light. The drawing includes a small house or cabin with annotations on exterior colors, a rough layout of a room with furniture, and a separate detail of a window. The artist has used pencil or charcoal, creating a range of tones from light to dark, and has included handwritten notes specifying colors like "orange yellow," "warm yellow," and "pale green."

A sketch on paper featuring various architectural elements and notes on color and light. The drawing includes a small house or cabin with annotations on exterior colors, a rough layout of a room with furniture, and a separate detail of a window. The artist has used pencil or charcoal, creating a range of tones from light to dark, and has included handwritten notes specifying colors like "orange yellow," "warm yellow," and "pale green."

Not on view

Date
1945

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Fabricated chalk on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 15 × 22 1/8in. (38.1 × 56.2 cm)

Accession number
70.1001

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/9587

Exhibitions

Hopper Drawing

May 23–Oct 6, 2013

Edward Hopper
3,151 works in the collection

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