Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About It A Hemingway short story may have inspired Hopper's iconic scene. Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Yes, that Edward Hopper, legendary creator of such iconic canvasses as Nighthawks and Cape Cod Evening, American master of shadow and light, poet of lonely days and brooding nights, dead now 46 years.

A new documentary about Edward Hopper, famous for paintings like Nighthawks (1942), focuses on his marriage to Josephine Nivison Hopper through her little-seen diary entries. The PBS film, HOPPER ...

This is certainly one reason that Edward Hopper’s painting, “Nighthawks,” remains popular. Completed in 1942, the painting features individuals occupying a quiet diner as they receive ...

But anyway, it’s not the meaning or the history we love about Hopper; it’s the silence. The people in his paintings are forever between thoughts. Click here to report a typo.

Hopper’s wife and muse Josephine, also a painter, famously worked with him on his paintings, taking detailed notes and making suggestions, and she became his only model.

Three Lions/Getty Images Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks,” an iconic 1942 painting of a corner diner in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, is the artist’s most famous work.

On July 22, Edward Hopper is born in Nyack, New York to Garrett Henry Hopper, a dry-goods merchant, and Elizabeth Griffiths Smith Hopper, an outgoing woman who encourages Hopper’s creativity.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - An oil painting of a Cape Cod autumn scene by Edward Hopper — one of the last paintings by the American artist remaining in private hands — will be offered for sale in ...

Meatpacking BID Happy birthday, Edward Hopper! Art lovers paid tribute to the American realist during a four-day celebration in New York City that ended on July 22—142 years after his birth in 1882.