Which American artist painted Nighthawks in 1942?
Nighthawks Nighthawks Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people in a downtown diner late at night. It has been described as Hopper's best known work and is one of the most recognizable paintings in American art. Within months of its completion, it was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago on May 13, 1942 for $3,000. Starting shortly after their marriage in 1924, Edward Hopper and his wife Josephine (Jo) kept a journal in which he would, using a pencil, make a sketch-drawing of each of his paintings, along with a precise description of
Nighthawks as the model for many homages and parodies. Many artists have produced works that allude or respond to "Nighthawks". Hopper influenced the Photorealists of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Ralph Goings, who evoked "Nighthawks" in several paintings of diners. Richard Estes painted a corner store in "People's Flowers" (1971), but in daylight, with the shop's large window reflecting the street and sky. More direct visual quotations began to appear in the 1970s. Gottfried Helnwein's painting "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (1984) replaces the three patrons with American pop culture icons Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, and James Dean, and the