Girl at Sewing Machine

Girl at Sewing Machine is a 1921 painting by Edward Hopper, now in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Spain. It portrays a young girl 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]

Girl at Sewing Machine
ArtistEdward Hopper 
Yearc. 1921
Mediumoil paint, canvas
Dimensions48 cm (19 in) × 46 cm (18 in)
LocationThyssen-Bornemisza Museum

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 his commentary on solitude.[3]

The painting is the inspiration for Mary Leader's poem of the same name.[4]

References
  1. 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.
  2. Places. 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.
  3. Berman, Avis (2005). Edward Hopper's New York. Pomegranate. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-7649-3154-3.
  4. 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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