How Edward Hopper became an artist for the pandemic age Why we are all Nighthawks in the age of Covid.
Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967), Nighthawks, 1942 A woman and two men are seated at the bar in a diner. We can see from the lights outside and inside that it is night. Each one has a cup of coffee. The woman and one of the men sit close together, though, looking at them, it’s impossible to say whether they know each other or whether they just met. One man sits alone. The man behind the bar is fussing, as men working in bars and diners do, with something.