Girl at Sewing Machine

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]

Girl at Sewing Machine
Artist	Edward Hopper
Year	1921 (1921)
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	48 cm × 46 cm (19 in × 18 in)
Location	Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

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

• List of works by Edward Hopper