A sheet of pencil character sketches centered on a plaid-coated man holding a cane and monocle.

Edward Hopper

(Sketches of Caricatured Figures and Heads)

1892–1895

Not on view

3,151 works in the collection
68 exhibitions
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Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 5 × 7 7/8 in. (12.7 × 20 cm)

Accession number
70.1554.13

Credit line
Josephine N. Hopper Bequest

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

API
artworks/9969

Part of a series:
(41 drawings)
41 works

Loose pencil sketches of small buildings, a distant bridge, and three portrait studies on paper.
Two people sit in a small sailboat, one handling the tiller and a tall mast rising.
A tall man in a top hat leads a slumped boy across water toward another man while boats float nearby.
A mounted rifled Gatling gun sketch showing gears, carriage, and long rifled barrel.
Elderly man with oversized forehead and round glasses looks down with a sad expression.
Caricature sketch of a bald man with large ears and round glasses frowning.
Several anthropomorphic pigs and cats socialize, with a pig drinking at a table and two cats dancing.
Several small pencil sketches of sailing boats with masts and crew on a sheet of paper.
A small pencil sketch of a cowboy wearing a hat riding a galloping horse.
A pencil sketch of a saddled horse standing in profile on lined paper.

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