ISBN: | 978-5-5113-0490-8 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nighthawks is a 1942 painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is considered Hopper`s most famous painting, as well as one of the most recognizable in American art. Within months of its completion, it was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago for $3,000, and has remained there ever since.