Girl at Sewing Machine

{{Short description|Painting by Edward Hopper}}

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| title = Girl at Sewing Machine

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| image = File:Girl at a Sewing Machine - 1921 - Hopper.jpg

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| artist = Edward Hopper

| year = {{start date|1921}}

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| medium = oil on canvas

| height_metric = 48

| width_metric = 46

| museum = Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

| city = Madrid

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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.{{cite book|last=Bonnefoy|first=Yves|title=The lure and the truth of painting: selected essays on art|url=https://archive.org/details/luretruthofpaint0000bonn|url-access=registration|year=1995|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-06444-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/luretruthofpaint0000bonn/page/149 149]}} The exterior vantage point, although present, only aids in putting the interior activity in perspective.{{cite book|title=Places|volume=2|year=1985|publisher=MIT Press for the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley and the School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}

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.{{cite book|last=Berman|first=Avis|title=Edward Hopper's New York|year=2005|publisher=Pomegranate|isbn=978-0-7649-3154-3|pages=57}}

The painting is the inspiration for Mary Leader's poem of the same name.{{cite book|last=Elder|first=R. Bruce|title=Harmony and dissent: film and avant-garde art movements in the early twentieth century|year=2008|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press|isbn=978-1-55458-028-6|pages=xxvii}}