Template:Did you know nominations/The Bootleggers (Hopper)

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 14:45, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

The Bootleggers (Hopper)

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... that The Bootleggers portrays the illegal alcohol trade during the Prohibition era of the Roaring '20s?

Source: Hopper, Edward (1925). "The Bootleggers". Currier Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 November 2024.

ALT1 ... that a rummy, a small fast boat used to deliver illegal alcohol from foreign ships waiting off the U.S. coast to shore, is prominently featured in The Bootleggers?

Source: Levin, Gail (1995). Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 193. ISBN 0394546644. OCLC 716046833. Quote: "...in his next oil, The Bootleggers, which shows three men in a motorboat passing before a house with a nineteenth-century mansard roof, next to which stands a lone figure. Although Hopper painted in his studio, he had made etchings of such houses, which still survive along the Hudson River near Nyack. Prohibition had been in effect since January 1920 and violations were increasingly common. In February 1925, the Attorney General denounced the large number of foreign vessels smuggling liquor into the United States. The ships waited off shore to deliver their cargoes to small boats that transported the illicit goods to shore. It was one of these small launches or "rummies" in action that Hopper chose to depict."

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Created by Viriditas (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 32 past nominations.

Viriditas (talk) 00:24, 7 December 2024 (UTC).

, seems to meet the checklist items and the hook summarizes the topic well. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:11, 8 December 2024 (UTC)