In the Hooper painting Nighthawks there is an dark store across the street. In the otherwise empty front window is an object on a small raised platform that is in the shadow of the window frame. It is the only object left in the window? What does it look like to you?
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Nighthawks.jpg
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2007-09-18 07:35:45 · 8 answers · asked by ericbryce2 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
An old cash register.
http://images1.comstock.com/Imagewarehouse/BX/SITECS/NLWMCompingVersions/27751-28000/bxp27836.jpg
http://cgi.ebay.com/100-ORIG-Red-Brass-Natl-313-1109399-Cash-Register_W0QQitemZ300151774548QQihZ020QQcategoryZ13719QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Edit * There's an exhibition going on now at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C. If you click on the exhibition feature, there's a film/video clip and a close-up image of his paintings.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/hopper/index.shtm
In the 40's, typewriters, cash registers, sewing and adding machines, all had that same general shape. It can be anything you imagine or want it to be, including a shop cat...lol
2007-09-18 07:48:07 · answer #1 · answered by Compass Rose 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Although Compass Ross is almost always right in this case it looks like to me she isn't. If you can find a higher res image of 'Nighthawks At The Dinner' and enlarge it several times you might see it as I see it.
First off, it is sitting on it's own pedestal in front of the counter. Cash registers were never sat on top of a raised pedestal in front of or behind the counter. They are always sitting, because of their weight, on the counter itself. What it looks like to me is a display, the type of display with 'steps' designed to show as many objects as possible from different levels. In this case I'm pretty sure it is a display rack designed for and holding jewelry, either rings or watches or both.
2007-09-18 17:11:09 · answer #2 · answered by Doc Watson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the tall shadow looks like a leftover mannequin of some sort and the whiter one which is smaller looks like a sculpture possiblyy a white cat
2007-09-18 08:41:49 · answer #3 · answered by cristelle R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looks like a cash register to me!!!
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2007-09-18 10:10:56 · answer #4 · answered by fishineasy™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
could've been old jewelry store, you know like how they display there jewelry in a case window. Or could be a cash register like the other person said.
2007-09-18 09:35:32 · answer #5 · answered by butterfliez2002 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a shop cat!
Naw, I agree, with the above. It's a cash register.
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2007-09-18 08:45:36 · answer #6 · answered by Icteridae 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A brochures/books holder
2007-09-18 18:36:50 · answer #7 · answered by woowoototo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It a register and a Mannequin.
2007-09-18 10:07:19 · answer #8 · answered by mr_acecombat 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋