![]() ![]() I’ve stood in front of it twice in my life. August 28, 2013, at Hopper Drawing at the old Whitney Museum. The last time I stood in front of Nighthawks. Most likely? At this very moment, this masterpiece was all in his mind, and possibly on it, as Arnold Newman pressed his shutter release.įor the following 77 1/2 years (exactly, as I write this), and counting, the world has been fascinated by Nighthawks like they have few other Paintings created in the 20th Century. Some of us, including myself, are borderline obsessed by it. The odds are that he had finished his preliminary work- the inspiration, the sketches, the reference Drawings, the sizing calculations he usually did, and ordered the stretcher and canvas we see behind him on his famous easel. We don’t know if Arnold Newman had any clue as to what Edward Hopper’s intentions were for that canvas. In the intervening 81 days, Edward Hopper Painted the incomparable Nighthawks on that very canvas. Its sale netted Edward Hopper about $1,700.00. It wound up in the Art Institute of Chicago almost immediately.
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