New York Pavements

Artist Edward Hopper (American, 1882 - 1967)

Date1924-1925

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions24 3/4 × 29 3/4 in. (62.9 × 75.6 cm)
Overall, Frame: 33 1/4 × 38 3/8 × 3 1/2 in. (84.5 × 97.5 × 8.9 cm)

ClassificationsModern art

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number83.591

Terms

New York
Cityscape
Baby carriage
Woman
Nanny
Buildings
Gray
White
Blue
Brown
Black
Yellow
Pink

Collections

Modern and Contemporary

On View

On view

DescriptionThis is an oil on canvas painting depicting a modern apartment house with a low stoop. In the lower left corner, a nanny walks with a baby carriage on a street in New York City . The nanny wears a bright blue uniform; the building exterior is mostly grey.

Label TextEdward Hopper American, 1882–1967 New York Pavements, 1924 Oil on canvas With her uniform’s blue veil billowing out behind her, a nanny pushes a baby carriage through the streets of New York. Looking down from an upper window, we join her as inhabitants of the metropolis and its rows of apartment buildings, sprawling outward and upward in this era of progress and prosperity. The unusual cropping of this scene, with the figures just entering our view, suggests the fragmented and lonely character of this anonymous urban world, a frequent theme in Edward Hopper’s work. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 83.591