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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.
Common Nighthawks are medium-sized, slender birds with very long, pointed wings and medium-long tails. Only the small tip of the bill is usually visible, and this combined with the large eye and short neck gives the bird a big-headed look.
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 Common Nighthawk, a widespread and familiar bird that hunts insects in the air by day or night. Find out its range, identification, behavior, habitat, conservation status, and more.
Chicago, United States. Edward Hopper said that “Nighthawks” was inspired by “a restaurant on New York’s Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet,” but the image—with its carefully constructed...
On warm summer evenings, Common Nighthawks roam the skies over treetops, grasslands, and cities. Their sharp, electric <em>peent</em> call is often the first clue they’re overhead. In the dim half-light, these long-winged birds fly in graceful loops, flashing white patches out past the bend of each wing as they chase insects.
