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Nighthawks (Painting)

File:Art Institute of Chicago-0957.jpg Artist Edward Hopper (1882–1967) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q203401 q:en:Edward Hopper Edward Hopper: Nighthawks Title Nighthawks Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata Description English: Nighthawks Date 21 January 1942 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions Height: 84.1 cm (33.1 in); Width: 152.4 cm (60 in) Collection Art Institute of Chicago Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q239303 Current location Friends of American Art Collection Accession number 1942.51 (Art Institute of Chicago) Edit this at Wikidata Place of creation New York City, United States of America Object history 13 May 1942: purchased by Art Institute of Chicago from Edward Hopper, New York City Credit line 21 January 1942: completed by Edward Hopper 13 May 1942: bought by Daniel Catton Rich, director of the Art Institute of Chicago, for3,000 US$ References described at URL: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111628 Edit this at Wikidata described by source: 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die, pp. 716 Edit this at Wikidata Source/Photographer Wuselig
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The 1942 oil on canvas painting Nighthawks by the American artist Edward Hopper.

File:Nighthawks by Edward Hopper 1942.jpg Artist Edward Hopper (1882–1967) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q203401 q:en:Edward Hopper Edward Hopper: Nighthawks Title Nighthawks Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata Date 21 January 1942 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions Height: 84.1 cm (33.1 in); Width: 152.4 cm (60 in) Collection Art Institute of Chicago Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q239303 Current location Friends of American Art Collection Accession number 1942.51 (Art Institute of Chicago) Edit this at Wikidata Place of creation New York City, United States of America Object history 13 May 1942: purchased by Art Institute of Chicago from Edward Hopper, New York City Credit line 21 January 1942: completed by Edward Hopper 13 May 1942: bought by Daniel Catton Rich, director of the Art Institute of Chicago, for 3,000 US$ References described at URL: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111628 Edit this at Wikidata described by source: 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die, pp. 716 Edit this at Wikidata Source/Photographer http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/111628 Permission (Reusing this file) From "Copyright Law: Publishing Art and the Public Domain" on the Art Institute of Chicago website: "These publications illustrate more artworks that are now in the public domain in the United States because the artists did not file copyright renewal applications within the one-year renewal window at the end of the 28 years following the first publication. All of these artists died fewer than 70 years ago, so these artworks are potentially protected by copyright in countries that calculate copyright protection based on the life of the artist. *Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942. From: The Art Institute of Chicago, Fifty-third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture. Chicago: 1942. *Salvador Dali, Inventions of the Monsters, 1937. From: James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dali. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946. *Ivan Albright, Heavy the Oar to Him Who is Tired, Heavy the Coat, Heavy the Sea, 1929. From: WFMT Chicago Fine Arts Guide. Chicago: November 1960."
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