Girl at Sewing Machine
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Artist | Edward Hopper |
Year | 1921 (1921) |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 48 cm × 46 cm (19 in × 18 in) |
Location | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid |
Girl at Sewing Machine is an oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper, executed in 1921, now in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Spain. It portrays a young woman sitting at a sewing machine facing a window on a beautiful sunny day. The location appears to be New York City as is evident from the yellow bricks in the window.[1] The exterior vantage point, although present, only aids in putting the interior activity in perspective.[2]
It is one of the first of Hopper's many "window paintings". Hopper's repeated decision to pose a young woman against her sewing is said to be a commentary on solitude.[3]
The painting is the inspiration for Mary Leader's poem of the same name.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Bonnefoy, Yves (1995). The lure and the truth of painting: selected essays on art. University of Chicago Press. pp. 149. ISBN 978-0-226-06444-4.
- ^ Places. Vol. 2. MIT Press for the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley and the School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1985.
- ^ Berman, Avis (2005). Edward Hopper's New York. Pomegranate. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-7649-3154-3.
- ^ Elder, R. Bruce (2008). Harmony and dissent: film and avant-garde art movements in the early twentieth century. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. pp. xxvii. ISBN 978-1-55458-028-6.
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- List of works
- Girl at Sewing Machine (1921)
- House by the Railroad (1925)
- Coast Guard Station, Two Lights, Maine (1927)
- Automat (1927)
- Manhattan Bridge Loop (1928)
- Chop Suey (1929)
- Early Sunday Morning (1930)
- Room in New York (1932)
- East Wind Over Weehawken (1934)
- Macomb's Dam Bridge (1935)
- White River at Sharon (1937)
- New York Movie (1939)
- Ground Swell (1939)
- Gas (1940)
- Office at Night (1940)
- Nighthawks (1942)
- Hotel Lobby (1943)
- Saltillo Mansion (1943)
- High Noon (1949)
- Rooms by the Sea (1951)
- Hotel by a Railroad (1952)
- Office in a Small City (1953)
- Western Motel (1957)
- Second Story Sunlight (1960)
- Intermission (1963)
- Sun in an Empty Room (1963)
- Two Comedians (1966)
- Josephine Hopper (wife, model)
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