Gas ☲ Hopper ☰ Canvas snakes partly because newly invented pigments

partly because newly invented pigments

where he had gone to escape the materialism of European society

from the well-dressed higher classes near the front to the lower classes in the gallery at the back

blurred brushstrokes

Gas ☲ Hopper ☰ Canvas snakes partly because newly invented pigmentsGas (1940) by Edward Hopper depicts a Mobil gas station, and an attendant working alone at the pumps as night falls. The modern details of the fuel pump, sign and electric lighting contrast with the twilight sky and dense pine forest in the background. The station is a composite of several different locations, as Hopper had trouble finding suitable gas stations with the lights lit above the pumps. Lights were usually only turned on when it was dark,