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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.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Fifty–third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Oct 29–Dec 10, 1942, cat. 132.
- Indianapolis, 1943.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Fifty–fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Oct 28–Dec 12, 1943, cat. 15.
- New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition, Feb 11–Mar 26, 1950, cat. 61, pl. 28; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Apr 13–May 14, 1950; Detroit Institute of Arts, Jun 4–Jul 2, 1950.
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 ...
Learn about the famous painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, which depicts people in a downtown diner late at night. Find out the details of the painting, the inspiration behind it, and the journal notes by the artist and his wife.
One of the best-known images of twentieth-century art, the painting depicts an all-night diner in which three customers, all lost in their own thoughts, have congregated. Hopper’s understanding...
In Hopper’s most iconic painting, Nighthawks (1942; Art Institute of Chicago), four customers and a waiter inhabit the brightly lit interior of a city diner at night. They appear lost in their own weariness and private concerns, their disconnection perhaps echoing the wartime anxiety felt by the nation as a whole.
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Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, oil on canvas, 84.1 x 152.4 cm / 33-1/8 x 60 inches (Art Institute of Chicago). Near Misses. In place of meaningful interactions, the four characters inside the diner of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks are involved in a series of near misses. The man and woman might be touching hands, but they aren’t.
