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Nighthawks (painting)
Artist : Edward Hopper

Nighthawks (painting) 

Artist : Edward Hopper

Year : 1942

Medium : Oil paint, Canvas

Movement : American Realism

Location : Art Institute of Chicago

Nighthawks (painting) is an oil canvas image that was painted by Hopper 1942. In this

picture he depicts some people eating dinner, which was seen through the huge glass

window. Other people on the street are also depicted throughout the city. The scene was

taken from dinner at the Greenwich Village next to Hopper in Manhattan. Hopper himself

said that “the painting was taken from a restaurant on Greenwich Avenue, with a three-way

band”. He added, “I collected the scene easily and made the restaurant very popular”.

It is considered one of Hopper’s most popular works. After the completions of the attic,

it was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago for $3000 on may 4, within a few months. It is

thought that Hopper was inspired by a short story by Eastern Hemingway, called `The

Killers”. Hopper greatly appreciated this story. Regarding the title on this painting, Hopper

said “there is more to the prospects of night hunters than Nighthawk’s loneliness”. 

After completing the canvas work at the end of the winter of 12/12, Hopper put on display

at Rehn’s where his painting was usually for sale. It was almost a month later. On st.

Patrock’s Day, Hopper participated in a chic show organized by the Edward and Joe Hopper

Modern Museum of Art, directed by Daniel Ncaton Rich, director of the Chicago Art Institute.

Then Joe told her, “you just have to go to Rehab for a Nighthawks Exhibition”. He arranged

to buy it for Chicago there. The resale was $3000. The painting has remained in the Art

Institute’s collection ever since.