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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.
Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967) About Nighthawks Edward Hopper recollected, “unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.”. In an all-night diner, three customers sit at the counter opposite a server, each appear to be lost in thought and disengaged from one another.
Nighthawks is a 1942 painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is Hopper's most famous work and is one of the most recognizable paintings in American art.
Nighthawks, painting by Edward Hopper completed in 1942, and one of the most immediately recognizable works of all of American art. In Nighthawks, curved geometric forms accentuated by an Art Deco facade and angular light provide an almost theatrical setting for a group of insulated and isolated figures. The Phillies cigars advertisement on top ...
Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people in a downtown diner late at night. It has been described as Hopper's best known work and one of the most recognizable paintings in American art.
Dr. Steven Zucker: [0:13] We’re in the Art Institute of Chicago, and we’re looking at Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks,” from 1942, this classic American painting that’s usually seen as an expression of wartime alienation, of the notion of separation, and it really is about separation.
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Detail. Detail. Four isolated individuals sit in a diner on a deserted street corner in the late hours of the night, seemingly lost in contemplation and disconnected from one another.