alt Hacker NewsThis painting is in the Chicago Art Institute.
The two other iconic paintings in their collection are:
-Grant Wood's American Gothic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic
-George Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sunday_Afternoon_on_the_Isla...
All of these paintings were purchased for a tiny fraction of their current value (Hopper, $3,000; Seurat, $20,000).
https://ladykflo.com/a-sunday-on-la-grande-jatte-by-georges-...
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profsummergig • yesterday at 11:06 PM
All 3 are iconic. I wonder if the same curator acquired them.
Nighthawks shows up in this scene from one of the most iconic 80s teen movies, but the star of the scene is Pointillism:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vBBOMLURSGA&ra=m