Various pencil sketches showing a man in a top hat pointing among heads and birds.

Edward Hopper

(Sketches of Men in Top Hats, Heads, Hands, Legs, Birds and Ship)

1895–1899

Not on view

3,151 works in the collection
68 exhibitions
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Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 7/8 in. (25.2 × 20 cm)

Accession number
70.1554.35

Credit line
Josephine N. Hopper Bequest

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

API
artworks/9987

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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