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Nighthawks is one of Hopper’s New York City paintings, and the artist said that it was based on a real café. Many people have tried to find the exact setting of the painting, but have failed. In his wife’s diaries, she wrote that she and Hopper himself both served as models for the people in the painting. Despite these real-life details, the empty composition and flat, abstracting planes of color give the canvas a timeless feel, making it an object onto which one can project one’s own reality. Perhaps this is why it has lent itself to so well to many parodies, even appearing as a motif on an episode of The Simpsons.
Figure 3. Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942 (detail)

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“If you see the painting and you see the restaurant, everything matches,” Vigor says.

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The painting shows an all-night diner in which three customers are seated, lost in their own thoughts, under an “eerie glow,” according to a description on the Art Institute of Chicago website.
Blogger Jeremiah Moss has chronicled his journey to find the real-life Nighthawks diner, writing in a 2010 New York Times op-ed piece that city folklore has suggested that Mulry Square — a triangular lot at Greenwich Avenue and Seventh Avenue South — was the site of the diner. His research found that it couldn’t be the case because a gas station stood there from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Paints Office at Night.
Paints Nighthawks, purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago, and is an overnight success, becoming signature work for Hopper and an iconic American image.

Post-Impressionism flourished during this era. Fauvism, Cubism, and Dada were exciting new trends and Surrealism brewed on the horizon. However, Edward Hopper showed no interest in new styles. He did not enroll in classes, nor did he mingle with modernist artists. Instead, Hopper read French literature and painted scenic views inspired by early masters like Goya and the nineteenth century impressionists Manet and Degas.
Among Hopper’s classmates were the talented realists George Bellows, Guy Pène du Bois, and Rockwell Kent. Their teachers included Kenneth Hayes Miller and William Merritt Chase, who used traditional techniques of realism to depict everyday scenes. Most significantly, Hopper became a student of Robert Henri, leader of the Ashcan School. Henri, who believed that artists should report on harsh conditions of the poor, promoted bold urban realism.

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