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.
4 comments:
I agree with you, I am fond of these paintings too!
Hopper
I remember rounding a corner and coming face to face with American Gothic - astounding place.
I love that Hopper too, Sharon. Have never seen it in real life though.
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