Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks' (1942), painted weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, depicts three customers and a waiter inside a late-night diner on a silent Manhattan corner, observed from the street through the diner's curved plate-glass window. The fluorescent interior, the absence of a visible door, and the averted gazes distil Hopper's lifelong subject — modern urban solitude — into the most famous American painting of the 20th century. It is a signature work of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibition Venue

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States