Thursday, October 3, 2024

Locating an Old Favorite

 

One of my all-time favorite paintings is this one, Night Hawks by Edward Hopper.  When I spent those years in Chicago for an assignment, I became a museum member and on the weekends that I didn't travel back to Phoenix, I would make trips to the Art Institute.  I got to know the place pretty well.  It has changed a lot since that time with a whole new wing added on.  On every visit to the museum, I have to call on my favorite Edward Hopper painting and say hello to him and those four people inside that cafe.

It is a popular painting among museum goers as you see from this photo.  It was drawing quite a crowd of admirers when I was in the gallery room.

The same can be said about the other famous painting at the museum.  It's Georges Surat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte that I featured in a post on the 22nd.  I was lucky when I made it to this gallery.  It was during the "member's hour" before the museum opened to the public.  The galleries were a lot quieter then.  

10 comments:

biebkriebels said...

I agree with you, I am fond of these paintings too!

biebkriebels said...

Hopper

Travel said...

I remember rounding a corner and coming face to face with American Gothic - astounding place.

RedPat said...

I love that Hopper too, Sharon. Have never seen it in real life though.

Bill said...

The Hopper painting is beautiful.

Steve Reed said...

"Sunday on the Isle of La Grande Jatte" always makes me think of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." I know I've seen that Hopper before too, probably in Chicago but also (I believe) at a Hopper retrospective I saw at the Whitney in 1995. It must have been on loan?

Cloudia said...

Yes, that is an eloquent painting that has spoken to me my entire life...

roentare said...

The paintings are very lovely

Aimz said...

I'm a big Edward Hopper fan, he also painted the ones of the woman in the cafe alone.

Linda said...

I agree with you, Nighthawks is probably my favorite of Hopper's paintings. There's just something about it that's mesmerizing. I've never seen it in person though.