Edward Hopper: Nighthawks (1942)

(Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA)

A painting by the American artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967). A group of people in all-night diner (the diner was inspired by a restaurant on New York’s Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet). The three customers don't interact with each other and are lost in their own thoughts. The artist's wife Jo stood as a model for the red-haired woman while the artist himself used himself as a model for the male clients.According to the artist, he "consciously, probably, was painting the loneliness of a large city.” painting from 1942.