Girl at Sewing Machine
| Girl at Sewing Machine | |
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| Artist | Edward Hopper |
| Year | 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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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