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Wounded Bear

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41. There's also no cash register...

Reply to GPV (Reply #5)

Sat Mar 6, 2021, 09:54 PM

Mar 2021

I figured both were out of frame to the right.

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I bet you never noticed this in Hopper's most famous painting [View all] packman Mar 2021 OP

He'd just finished reading No Exit. Ocelot II Mar 2021 #1

He was a real hothead! ironflange Mar 2021 #2

I Do See A Door Me. Mar 2021 #3

Kitchen, I think GPV Mar 2021 #4

Probably, But There's Usually An Exit through THe Kitchen Me. Mar 2021 #6

I just assumed it was out of frame GPV Mar 2021 #5

Me too. Talitha Mar 2021 #19

That's what I thought, too. electric_blue68 Mar 2021 #22

Same here. roamer65 Mar 2021 #26

Me too. CaptainTruth Mar 2021 #28

There's also no cash register... Wounded Bear Mar 2021 #41

There is a cash register but it can be seen through the window of the room across the street. CTyankee Mar 2021 #63

So did I. Really. Hekate Mar 2021 #50

Me too. betsuni Mar 2021 #56

me too Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #70

Ever notice this in American Gothic? mobeau69 Mar 2021 #7

HEY! Didja know that the model for the man in that painting PCIntern Mar 2021 #13

It is a beautiful painting. Chicago has some bamagal62 Mar 2021 #24

I think it is meant to be edhopper Mar 2021 #17

It is his daughter, not wife SCantiGOP Mar 2021 #36

Isn't that what edhopper Mar 2021 #43

Thanks for the correction. It is just similar but neat to learn about the flour sacks. mobeau69 Mar 2021 #58

I saw it edhopper Mar 2021 #65

Not surprising. In the Depression years, flour was sold in cotton sacks printed in colorful patterns eppur_se_muova Mar 2021 #25

My first home ec project dianaredwing Mar 2021 #34

My parents escaped from Eastern Europe moonscape Mar 2021 #45

I bet your mom carefully placed that rooster! Hekate Mar 2021 #52

She did :) moonscape Mar 2021 #54

Not the same fabric edhopper Mar 2021 #44

I recognize that couple DFW Mar 2021 #57

Thrifty! Flour-sack material, no doubt. nt Hekate Mar 2021 #51

I was expecting Bernie soothsayer Mar 2021 #8

in the diner which is reputed to be the model for the painting, the door exits onto 7th Avenue. 3Hotdogs Mar 2021 #9

Got a link? Aristus Mar 2021 #11

The diner itself was demolished, but the location was real. It was near where I lived in GV on the smirkymonkey Mar 2021 #15

that cannot be the location of the diner which inspired the painting, because a gas station occupied Celerity Mar 2021 #49

It seems I was misinformed. My mistake. smirkymonkey Mar 2021 #59

oh, totally oki, I knew none of this before now Celerity Mar 2021 #60

Ten Reasons why 70 Greenwich Avenue at 11th Street just may have been the primary inspiration ... Donkees Mar 2021 #20

I've seen that building in person... malthaussen Mar 2021 #31

I haven't been there in years.... we used to come to The Village in the 70's, 3Hotdogs Mar 2021 #47

Friend and I visited the Village shortly after John Lennon was shot... malthaussen Mar 2021 #64

Wow! This is amazing stuff! Aristus Mar 2021 #35

In this photo you can easily imagine the diners living in this neighborhood: Donkees Mar 2021 #62

It's a fantastic work of art! PJMcK Mar 2021 #10

What's your opinion of the emotional cast of the painting? Aristus Mar 2021 #12

I wrote about this in my book (formerly published here at DU) CTyankee Mar 2021 #27

I looked at it as "A Clean Well-Lighted Place".When I was in college there were a couple of years... Hekate Mar 2021 #53

I can see why. Yours is a wonderful example of how meaningful Hopper's work is. CTyankee Mar 2021 #61

They put the people in first then built the diner around them. unblock Mar 2021 #14

Suddenly I got a hankerin' for a cup of coffee Blue Owl Mar 2021 #16

Love that painting. (nt) Paladin Mar 2021 #18

For me; Notek Mar 2021 #21

Wow I never knew it was in GV! I thought it was in the Mid-West somewhere electric_blue68 Mar 2021 #23

There is more to the diner to the right, it is assumed the door is there. Escurumbele Mar 2021 #29

LOL. Yes, I noticed. malthaussen Mar 2021 #30

I always thought it was strange that there's no sidewalk in front of the diner. CaptainTruth Mar 2021 #32

I used to love to deconstruct Thomas Kinkaide paintings TrogL Mar 2021 #33

They look like the house is on fire and a goner. nt reACTIONary Mar 2021 #37

Yes, Notek Mar 2021 #38

That was recreated for Pennies From Heaven (1982) edbermac Mar 2021 #39

And here I thought it was done to emphasize a city's fishbowl like appearance Deb Mar 2021 #40

I absolutely love that painting and I don't know why. n/t Yavin4 Mar 2021 #42

In a local diner I used to go to MustLoveBeagles Mar 2021 #46

LOLOLOLOL ... Iggo Mar 2021 #48

Isn't that a door in the far right side? left-of-center2012 Mar 2021 #55

People on this thread can _assume_that the door is out of the frame nilram Mar 2021 #66

It's creepy. The people seem unaware that they are in a place with no exit door. CTyankee Mar 2021 #67

I've imagined it as the 'fourth wall' in theatre ... 'public solitude' Donkees Mar 2021 #68

Inside the virtual 3D representation of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks Donkees Mar 2021 #69

Thanks for the post packman Mar 2021 #71