Nighthawks by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York 1882 and died in 1967.
His family encourage his artistic abilities. After graduating from high school,
he studied briefly at the Correspondence School of Illustrating in New York City
and enrolled in classes at New York School of Art. With his shift from
illustration to fine arts, he studied with William Chase a leading American
Impressionist painter. Nighthawks was created in 1942 on an oil canvas then it
was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago. Nighthawks portrays people
sitting in a downtown diner late at night with a man sitting on the corner and
husband and wife at the end.
His family encourage his artistic abilities. After graduating from high school,
he studied briefly at the Correspondence School of Illustrating in New York City
and enrolled in classes at New York School of Art. With his shift from
illustration to fine arts, he studied with William Chase a leading American
Impressionist painter. Nighthawks was created in 1942 on an oil canvas then it
was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago. Nighthawks portrays people
sitting in a downtown diner late at night with a man sitting on the corner and
husband and wife at the end.