A diner is a type of restaurant found across the United States and Canada, as well as parts of Western Europe and Australia. Diners offer mostly American cuisine, a casual atmosphere, and, typically,
Ruby's Diner in Colorado Springs, 2008
The Rosebud, a restored 1941 Worcester Lunch Car No. 773 in Somerville, Massachusetts
The Bendix Diner in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey
The Salem Diner in Salem, Massachusetts
Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window. The light
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…a key part of the customer base. For this reason, diners sometimes served as symbols of loneliness and isolation. Edward Hopper's iconic 1942 painting Nighthawks depicts a diner and its occupants, late at night. The diner in the painting is based on a real location in Greenwich Village, but was chosen in part…
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper 1942
Invoice showing $1,971 (equivalent to $38,840 in 2025) going to the artist after commission and costs
Nighthawks in the Art Institute of Chicago (2016)
Roger Brown's Puerto Rican Wedding (1969). Brown said the café in the lower left corner of this painting "isn't set up like an imitation of Nighthawks, but still refers to it very much."