Gas (Hopper)

Gas is a 1940 oil painting by the American painter Edward Hopper. It depicts an American gas station at the end of a highway.

This article is about the 1940 painting by Edward Hopper. For the 1919 painting by John Singer Sargent, see Gassed (painting).
Gas
ArtistEdward Hopper
Year1940
Catalogue80000
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions66.7 cm × 102.2 cm (261⁄4 in × 401⁄4 in)
LocationMuseum of Modern Art, New York City
Accession577.1943

Creation

The subject was a composite of several gas stations Hopper had visited.[1] According to Hopper's wife, the gas station motif was something he had wanted to paint for a long time. Hopper struggled with the painting. He had begun to produce new paintings at a slower rate than before, and had trouble finding suitable gas stations to paint. Hopper wanted to paint a station with the lights lit above the pumps, but the stations in his area only turned the lights on when it was pitch dark outside, to save energy.[2]

Provenance

The painting belongs to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

References
  1. "Edward Hopper. Gas. 1940". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  2. Levin, Gail (1998). Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 328–329. ISBN 0-520-21475-7.
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