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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

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. The exterior vantage point, although present, only aids in putting the interior activity in perspective.

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.

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

See also

• List of works by Edward Hopper

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. 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.
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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