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Dex
29 posts |
#22774 2007-09-18 14:35 GMT |
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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?
. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Nighthawks.jpg . |
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Kevin
30 posts |
#22775 2007-09-18 14:48 GMT |
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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 |
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Victory
34 posts |
#22776 2007-09-18 15:41 GMT |
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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
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LeadTheRave
94 posts |
#22777 2007-09-18 15:45 GMT |
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It's a shop cat!
Naw, I agree, with the above. It's a cash register. . |
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MagicStick
43 posts |
#22778 2007-09-18 16:35 GMT |
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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.
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BlindPoet
32 posts |
#22779 2007-09-18 17:07 GMT |
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It a register and a Mannequin.
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God
35 posts |
#22780 2007-09-18 17:10 GMT |
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Looks like a cash register to me!!!
nfd♥ |
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Melissa
79 posts |
#22781 2007-09-19 00:11 GMT |
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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. |
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SpongeBob
39 posts |
#22782 2007-09-19 01:36 GMT |
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A brochures/books holder
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