Gallery: After Edward Hopper at Del Ray Artisans
Nighthawks is Edward Hopper’s best-known work. It’s a striking, memorable image depicting a nearly empty bar, around which a trio of night owls sit, lost in thought, as a bartender gazes off into the distance.In creating the work almost 80 years ago during the throes of World War II, the famous American Impressionist has conceded that “unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.”Even more striking — and far lonelier — is Kelly MacConomy’s contemporary twist on Hopper’s classic, dubbed COVID Nighthawks reimagined and scrubbed clean of its four solitary humans.