Several quick ink sketches showing a beached rowboat, a small sailboat, and three head profiles.
Recto
Verso

Edward Hopper

Recto

(Sketches of Boats and Male and Female Heads)

Verso

(Sketches of Sailboat and Boats Viewed from Below)

1895–1899

Not on view

3,151 works in the collection
68 exhibitions
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Classification
Drawings

Medium
Pen and ink on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 9 7/8 × 7 11/16 in. (25.1 × 19.5 cm)

Accession number
70.1557.80a-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/9921

Part of a series:
(100 drawings)
100 works

A small figure struggles in choppy water while sailboats and a steamboat sit in the distance.
A fashionable Parisian woman wearing a large skirt, tailored jacket, and a tall hat.
A misty river scene with a small sailboat and a docked barge reflected in calm water.
A rough pencil sketch of a person hunched over a table, resting their head on their hand.
Three stacked rough pen sketches showing trees, a rooftop scene, and two boxy shapes above scribbled ground.
Three quick pen sketches of men in hats walking from back and side.
Several quick black ink sketches of men in different poses and a sailboat.
Simple pen sketches of a moored rowboat and nearby sailboat with small profile head studies.
A sheet with multiple quick ink sketches of different faces, profiles, and body parts.
Various ink sketches of people in different poses, including a standing woman and a walking man.

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