Washington Square NYU Graduate Arts Center. Interior, browsing Room. ca. 1935 Wurts Bros. (New York, NY). Collection of the Museum of the City of New York. MNY325118.
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Creator: Edward Hopper; North American, 1882 -1967, (Artist).
Title: People in the Sun.
Work type (medium): Painting, oil on canvas.
Repository: Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Style, school: American realism, post-impressionism.
