Burlesque Theatre, Times Square, early 1940s

Not on View

Medium

charcoal on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 30.16 × 22.54 cm (11 7/8 × 8 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.737

Artists / Makers

Edward Hopper (artist) American, 1882 - 1967

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Edward Hopper; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 14 [not deciphered] 18; along the right verso in graphite by unknown hand: [not deciphered]

Provenance

(Frank K. M. Rehn, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1951; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery

Exhibition History

1956: Art and the Theatre, Watkins Museum, American University, Washington, DC, 1956

1980: That’s Entertainment, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980, no. 25

1983: American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

2007: Impressionism, Realism, Modernism: Works on Paper from the American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2007

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 175, no. 1193.

1984: Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper. New York: Crown Publishers, 1984, p. 77.

1991: Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991, p. 259.