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Lighthouse Village (also known as Cape Elizabeth)
Lighthouse Village (also known as Cape Elizabeth)
America · 1929 · watercolor with gouache over graphite
Nighthawks
Nighthawks
Edward Hopper · 1942 · Art Institute of Chicago
Four figures in a late-night Greenwich Avenue diner, insulated by its curved glass from the empty street outside. Painted weeks after Pearl Harbor, it fixed the look of twentieth-century American loneliness.