![]() ![]() Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Elvis Presley) – Gottfried Helnwein (1984) Are You Using That Chair by Banksy at the Andipa Gallery (London, UK, 2009) – Photo: Daniel Silk New Year Nighthawks – The New Yorker cover by Owen Smith (1999) Psychos Night Out – Gedogfx Nighthawks before and after Quarantine Closed – Dalcio Machado Star Trek Nighthawks – Rabittooth The Last One in the Bar – Tony Futura 32nd Day of Quarantine: Nighthawks – Jarek Kubicki Night Watchmen – Brian Hess 3D Nighthawks – PsBattle Nighthawks vs. Additionally, he noted that “I simplified the scene a great deal and made the restaurant bigger”.īecause it is so widely recognized, the diner scene in Nighthawks has served as the model for many homages and parodies, from Ralph Goings and the Photorealists of the late 1960s and early 1970s or Roger Brown’s Puerto Rican Wedding to Gottfried Helnwein’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Banksy’s Are You Using That Chair, and many others. Hopper himself said the painting “was suggested by a restaurant on Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet”. In place of meaningful interactions, the four characters inside the diner of Edward Hoppers Nighthawks are involved in a series of near misses. The scene was supposedly inspired by a diner - since demolished - in Greenwich Village, Hopper’s neighborhood in Manhattan. Hopper/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY Nighthawks 3D pop-up installation in the landmark Flatiron building’s prow, Manhattan, NYC, on the occasion of the 2013 Hopper Drawing exhibition by the Whitney Museum of American Art - they claimed the artwork was inspired by that building. Study for Nighthawks (chalk and charcoal on paper, 1941-1942) – © Heirs of Josephine N. ![]() Jo and Edward had a tumultuous relationship marked by violence and abuse, so the title of the work and its tense atmosphere would seem to refer right to their marriage - as well as to the beak-shaped nose of the man at the bar, or to some references to the meaning of the word, such as “Night + brilliant interior of cheap restaurant”, as Jo suggested in some handwritten notes about the painting. ![]() The protagonists of the scene are the man with the hat and cigarette and the young woman adorned in a red dress, in their close proximity, portrait and self-portrait of Hopper and the artist’s real-life companion, Josephine Verstille Nivison, respectively - she jealously insisted on being the sole female model for all of Hopper’s art. The author is said to have drawn inspiration for this painting from The Killers, a 1927 short story by Ernest Hemingway and Vincent van Gogh’s Café de Nuit which captures the nocturnal atmosphere of late-night establishments. Edward Hopper was born July 22, 1882, in Nyack, New York, 25 miles north of New York City, into a family of English, Dutch, French and Welsh ancestry. It is Hoppers most famous work and is one of the most recognizable paintings in American art. Though Nighthawks represents some of Edward Hopper’s best work and is one of the most recognizable paintings of the 20th Century, he did not gain immediate renown for his art. Nighthawks is a 1942 painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. ![]()
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