Nighthawks ☷ Hopper ☲ Canvas tronieNighthawks (1942) by Edward Hopper is his most recognizable painting and one of the most famous in American art. Various artists have produced works that allude, parody or pay homage to it in literature, film, television, music and other paintings. It depicts four people in a diner late at night, as viewed from outside through a large glass window. Light from the diner illuminates a dark and deserted street. When asked about the lonely mood, Hopper
gazing out at mountains and trees in a sea of fog
and one engraving
complete with witness signature
Various onlookers
sharing interests in color theory
but van Gogh was an avid smoker until his death in 1890
Anna McNeill Whistler
or early Affenpinscher
The painting was displayed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston before being stolen in 1990
Female Nude (1916) by Amedeo Modigliani is a portrait of Iris Tree (27 January 1897 – 13 April 1968)
It depicts a Sunday afternoon at the Moulin de la Galette at Montmartre in Paris
It is interpreted as an emblem of life's transience and individual salvation