Gas ☲ Hopper ☰ Canvas snakes The painting depicts the sky

The painting depicts the sky just before sunrise over an imaginary village

partly because newly invented pigments

Heard the sounds of a reed instrument

Rousseau's Polish mistress from his youth

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

Gas ☲ Hopper ☰ Canvas snakes The painting depicts the skyGas (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,