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Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window. The light coming from the diner illuminates a darkened and deserted urban streetscape.
Yorkville is in northern Kendall County and is bordered to the northeast by Montgomery, to the east by Oswego, and to the west by Plano.Its boundaries are located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Aurora, [12] 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Naperville, [13] and 39 miles (63 km) west of Chicago.
Wolf Kahn (October 4, 1927 – March 15, 2020) [1] was a German-born American painter.. Kahn, known for his combination of Realism and Color Field, worked in pastel, oil paint, and printmaking.
A triple fore-edge painting has, in addition to paintings on the edges, a third painting applied directly to the edges (in lieu of gilt or marbling). An edge painting that is a continuous scene wrapped around more than one edge is called a panoramic fore-edge painting. This is sometimes called a triple edge painting. [7] [8]
Emilio Sanchez (1921–1999) was an American artist known for his architectural paintings and graphic lithographs. His work is found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York NY), Museum of Modern Art (New York NY), National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington DC), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana (Havana, Cuba ...
The Street Enters the House (La Strada Entra Nella Casa) is a 1912 oil-on-canvas painting by Italian artist Umberto Boccioni.Painted in the Futurist style, the work centres on a woman on a balcony in front of a busy street, with the sounds of the activity below portrayed as a riot of shapes and colours.
The painting was the subject of a fictionalized story by Claude Chevreuil, Un Coin de Table (2010). It was chosen by Michel Butor for his book Le Musée imaginaire de Michel Butor: 105 œuvres décisives de la peinture occidentale (2019), a selection of a group of 105 "decisive works" of the western painting. [8]
Hunt served in World War I in France. After spending time in Greenwich Village, he moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts in the late 1920s with his parents Ma and "Pa" (Edward C.) Hunt. Pa Hunt began painting in 1929, and his naïve art oil painting Peter Hunt's Antique Shop, 1930-34 was acquired by the MOMA in 1941. [2]