Gas

Edward Hopper · 1940

You're looking at Gas, painted by Edward Hopper in nineteen forty. No such filling station exists. Hopper drove the back roads hunting the mood he wanted and then invented the place, which is how most of his American landmarks came about.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 26 1/4 x 40 1/4" (66.7 x 102.2 cm) · Credit Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 519: Power Station, Pacific Gas and Electric Company

More by Edward Hopper here: House by the Railroad