Edward Hopper

No trip to the Art Institute in Chicago is complete without a trip to visit Edward Hopper's iconic Nighthawks painting. That piece might be his most famous work, but Hopper spent his entire life creating pieces equally as poignant that would go on to define his career and cement his…

Edward Hopper, the American realist painter of the early to mid-1900s, had a way of showcasing loneliness in his carefully created works that quickly put viewers in a somber mood. And of his numerous paintings, none is better-known than Nighthawks, his 1942 work depicting a diner late at night. Though it's by…