Nighthawks
Artist: Edward Hopper
Date: 1942
Category: Painting
In Collection: Outdoor Gallery Collection
Located on Student Affairs, Building 8 facing Ninth Avenue.
It has been suggested that Hopper was inspired by a short story of Ernest Hemingway’s, either “The Killers” (1927), which Hopper greatly admired, or from the more philosophical “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” (1933). In response to a query on loneliness and emptiness in the painting, Hopper outlined that he “didn’t see it as particularly lonely”. He said “unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city”.
