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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.
Hopper was very productive through the 1930s and early 1940s, producing among many important works New York Movie (1939), Girlie Show (1941), Nighthawks (1942), Hotel Lobby (1943), and Morning in a City (1944). During the late 1940s, however, he suffered a period of relative inactivity.
Edward Hopper had a lifelong interest in capturing the effect of light on the objects it touched, including the nighttime effect of artificial, man-made light spilling out of windows, doorways and porches. Nighthawks was probably Hopper's most ambitious essay in capturing the night-time effects of man-made light. For one thing, the diner's ...
*Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942. From: The Art Institute of Chicago, Fifty-third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture. Chicago: 1942.
Nighthawks: Oil on canvas: 1942: Art Institute of Chicago: 84.1 cm × 152.4 cm (33 1/8 in. × 60 in.) Dawn in Pennsylvania: Oil on canvas: Terra Foundation for American Art: Hotel Lobby: Oil on canvas: 1943: Indianapolis Museum of Art: 81.9 cm × 103.5 cm (32 1/4 in. × 40 3/4 in.) Summertime: Oil on canvas: 1943: Delaware Art Museum: Saltillo ...
Nighthawks (1942) is a painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is not only Hopper's most famous painting, but one of the most recognizable in American art. It is currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.