"Hear Before You Die."" The title was inspired by Edward Hopper's 1942 painting ""Nighthawks"". The album's working title had been ""Nighthawk Postcards from Easy Street,"" but was shortened to ""Nighthawks at the Diner"", which is the opening line to ""Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson)"". The cover, designed by Cal Schenkel, is also inspired by the painting. The album was recorded at Record Plant Los Angeles on July 30 and 31, 1975. Waits opens the album by calling the venue Raphael's Silver Cloud Lounge. Bones Howe, the album's producer, on the recording of the album: We did"
"Freud, Andrew Wyeth and others served as a kind of alternative to abstract expressionism. ""Nighthawks"" (1942) is a realist painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is not only Hopper's most famous painting, but one of the most recognizable in American art. The urban street is empty outside the diner, and inside none of the three patrons is apparently looking or talking to the others but instead is lost in their own thoughts. This portrayal of modern urban life as empty or lonely is a common theme throughout Hopper's work. One"
"Nighthawks (Cage & Camu Tao album) Nighthawks is the only studio album by American hip hop duo Nighthawks, which consisted of rappers Cage and Camu Tao. It was released on December 3, 2002 under Eastern Conference Records. The album is a rap opera concept album. ""Nighthawks"" came to be through Cage's love for cop movies. It puts Cage and Camu Tao in the personas of fictional police detectives ""Deke DaSilva"" and ""Matthew Fox"". The album was created in a one-week creative binge. The album is mostly produced by Camu Tao and DJ Mighty Mi, with one song's production by True-Skill."
"it was exhibited for nearly thirty years. Finally in accord with Pablo Picasso's wish to give the painting to the people of Spain as a gift, it was sent to Spain in 1981. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, through the years of World War II American art was characterized by Social Realism and American Scene Painting in the work of Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, Ben Shahn, Thomas Hart Benton, and several others. ""Nighthawks"" (1942) is a painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is not only Hopper's most famous"
"a tour of museums throughout the US until its final return to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City where it was exhibited for nearly thirty years. Finally in accord with Pablo Picasso's wish to give the painting to the people of Spain as a gift, it was sent to Spain in 1981. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, through the years of World War II American art was characterized by Social Realism and American Scene Painting (as seen above) in the work of Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, Ben Shahn, Thomas Hart Benton, and several others. ""Nighthawks"""
"Francisco Franco to overthrow the Basque government and the Spanish Republican government. Pablo Picasso painted his mural-sized ""Guernica"" to commemorate the horrors of the bombing. During the Great Depression of the 1930s and through the years of World War II, American art was characterized by Social Realism and American Scene Painting, in the work of Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, Ben Shahn, Thomas Hart Benton, and several others. ""Nighthawks"" (1942) is a painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is not only Hopper's most famous painting, but one of the most recognizable"
"his wife posed for the figures, and Jo Hopper gave the painting its title. The inspiration for the picture may have come from Ernest Hemingway's short story ""The Killers"", which Hopper greatly admired, or from the more philosophical ""A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"". In keeping with the title of his painting, Hopper later said, ""Nighthawks"" has more to do with the possibility of predators in the night than with loneliness. His second most recognizable painting after ""Nighthawks"" is another urban painting, ""Early Sunday Morning"" (originally called ""Seventh Avenue Shops""), which shows an empty street scene in sharp side light, with a"
"The African collection includes more than 400 works that span the continent, highlighting ceramics, garments, masks, and jewelry. The Amerindian collection includes Native North American art and Mesoamerican and Andean works. From pottery to textiles, the collection brings together a wide array of objects that seek to illustrate the thematic and aesthetic focuses of art spanning the Americas. The Art Institute's American Art collection contains some of the best-known works in the American canon, including Edward Hopper's ""Nighthawks"", Grant Wood's ""American Gothic"", and Mary Cassatt's ""The Child's Bath"". The collection ranges from colonial silver to modern and contemporary paintings. ""Nighthawks"""
"Nighthawks (film) Nighthawks is a 1981 American crime-thriller film directed by Bruce Malmuth and starring Sylvester Stallone, Rutger Hauer, Billy Dee Williams, Lindsay Wagner, Persis Khambatta and Nigel Davenport. Its score was composed by Keith Emerson. The film was noted for production problems. Three armed assailants attack a woman who turns out to be NYPD Detective Sergeant Deke DaSilva in drag. His partner, Detective Sergeant Matthew Fox, immobilizes two of the assailants; Deke chases the third upstairs to a subway-station platform, taunts him and incapacitates him with a scarf. That day in London, terrorist Heymar Reinhardt (alias Wulfgar) bombs a"
"on to make several ""office"" pictures, but no others with a sensual undercurrent. The best-known of Hopper's paintings, ""Nighthawks"" (1942), is one of his paintings of groups. It shows customers sitting at the counter of an all-night diner. The shapes and diagonals are carefully constructed. The viewpoint is cinematic—from the sidewalk, as if the viewer were approaching the restaurant. The diner's harsh electric light sets it apart from the dark night outside, enhancing the mood and subtle emotion. As in many Hopper paintings, the interaction is minimal. The restaurant depicted was inspired by one in Greenwich Village. Both Hopper and"
"Guest appearances include Tame One, Metro of S.A. Smash, Space and The High & Mighty. Nighthawks (Cage & Camu Tao album) Nighthawks is the only studio album by American hip hop duo Nighthawks, which consisted of rappers Cage and Camu Tao. It was released on December 3, 2002 under Eastern Conference Records. The album is a rap opera concept album. ""Nighthawks"" came to be through Cage's love for cop movies. It puts Cage and Camu Tao in the personas of fictional police detectives ""Deke DaSilva"" and ""Matthew Fox"". The album was created in a one-week creative binge. The album is"
"Nighthawk (DC Comics) Nighthawk is a fictional character, a cowboy in the DC Comics universe. His real name is Hannibal Hawkes and he first appeared in ""Western Comics"" #5. In his secret identity, he worked as a traveling repairman. He had a sidekick named Jim Peyton. Created by Joe Millard and Charles Paris, his later adventures were handled by writers France Herron, Don Cameron, and Gardner Fox; and artists Gil Kane and Carmine Infantino. He was shown as dying during ""Crisis on Infinite Earths"", although this has been retconned twice to fit in with the later revelation that he was"
"The Nighthawks The Nighthawks are an American blues and roots music band, based in Washington, D.C. As of 2018, The Nighthawks are Mark Wenner (vocals and harmonica), Paul Bell (lead guitar), Johnny Castle (bass guitar), and Mark Stutso (drums). Formed in 1972, the Nighthawks underwent several personnel changes before stabilizing as the lineup of Mark Wenner (vocals and harmonica), Jimmy Thackery (lead guitar), Jan Zukowski (bass guitar), and Pete Ragusa (drums). Their 1979 album, ""Full House,"" issued on Adelphi Records, includes guest appearances from Pinetop Perkins and Bob Margolin. Keyboard player Greg Wetzel joined the band in 1983, was a"
"was originally purchased by the museum in 1942 for $3,000; its acquisition ""launched"" the painting into ""immense popular recognition."" Considered an ""icon of American culture"", ""Nighthawks"" is perhaps Hopper's most famous painting, as well as one of the most recognizable images in American art. ""American Gothic"" has been in the museum's collection since 1930 and was only just recently loaned outside of North America for the first time in 2016. Wood's painting depicts what has been called ""the most famous couple in the world,"" a dour, rural-American, father and daughter. It was entered into a contest at the Art Institute"
"reproduction of ""Nighthawks"". Musical influences include singer/songwriter Tom Waits's 1975 live-in-the-studio album titled ""Nighthawks at the Diner"", after the painting. In 1993, Madonna was inspired sufficiently by Hopper's 1941 painting ""Girlie Show"" that she named her world tour after it and incorporated many of the theatrical elements and mood of the painting into the show. In 2004, British guitarist John Squire (formerly of The Stone Roses) released a concept album based on Hopper's work entitled ""Marshall's House"". Each song on the album is inspired by, and shares its title with, a painting by Hopper. Canadian rock group The Weakerthans released"
"as the model for many homages and parodies. Many artists have produced works that allude or respond to ""Nighthawks"". Hopper influenced the Photorealists of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Ralph Goings, who evoked ""Nighthawks"" in several paintings of diners. Richard Estes painted a corner store in ""People's Flowers"" (1971), but in daylight, with the shop's large window reflecting the street and sky. More direct visual quotations began to appear in the 1970s. Gottfried Helnwein's painting ""Boulevard of Broken Dreams"" (1984) replaces the three patrons with American pop culture icons Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, and James Dean, and the"
"Tomatoes based on 19 reviews. Nighthawks (film) Nighthawks is a 1981 American crime-thriller film directed by Bruce Malmuth and starring Sylvester Stallone, Rutger Hauer, Billy Dee Williams, Lindsay Wagner, Persis Khambatta and Nigel Davenport. Its score was composed by Keith Emerson. The film was noted for production problems. Three armed assailants attack a woman who turns out to be NYPD Detective Sergeant Deke DaSilva in drag. His partner, Detective Sergeant Matthew Fox, immobilizes two of the assailants; Deke chases the third upstairs to a subway-station platform, taunts him and incapacitates him with a scarf. That day in London, terrorist Heymar"
"Nighthawks (1978 film) Nighthawks is a 1978 narrative film by Ron Peck. It follows the day-to-day life of a gay man in London. The film realistically portrays day-to-day gay life in London at the time. It shows a gay man, played by Ken Robertson, teaching geography during the day and going to gay pubs at night. His students ultimately challenge him with questions as to whether he is bent/queer. He responds that he is and answers their questions about his homosexuality calmly. In 1979, Janet Maslin of the New York Times found the (fictional) film documentary-realistic. She found it a"
"Bob Powell Bob Powell (""né"" Stanley Robert Pawlowski; October 2, 1916 – December 1967) was an American comic book artist known for his work during the 1930–1940s Golden Age of comic books, including on the features ""Sheena, Queen of the Jungle"" and ""Mr. Mystic"". He received a belated credit in 1999 for co-writing the debut of the popular feature ""Blackhawk"". Powell also did the pencil art for the bubble gum trading card series ""Mars Attacks"". He officially changed his name to S. Robert Powell in 1943. Born in Buffalo, New York, Bob Powell in the 1930s moved to Manhattan, New"
"Nighthawks (Erik Friedlander album) Nighthawks is an album by cellist Erik Friedlander which was released in 2014 on the Skipstone label. The album was composed by Friedlander during a 5-day power outage following the impact of Hurricane Sandy. In JazzTimes Shaun Brady wrote ""Throughout Friedlander continues to expand the expressive vocabulary of the cello, striking violent abstractions one moment and aping the earthy sound of a battered acoustic guitar the next, with the agility to coax the instrument back into its familiar silken beauty in an instant. Wamble lends the quartet a virtuosic drawl, while the contributions of bassist Trevor"
"abilities. Nighthawk (DC Comics) Nighthawk is a fictional character, a cowboy in the DC Comics universe. His real name is Hannibal Hawkes and he first appeared in ""Western Comics"" #5. In his secret identity, he worked as a traveling repairman. He had a sidekick named Jim Peyton. Created by Joe Millard and Charles Paris, his later adventures were handled by writers France Herron, Don Cameron, and Gardner Fox; and artists Gil Kane and Carmine Infantino. He was shown as dying during ""Crisis on Infinite Earths"", although this has been retconned twice to fit in with the later revelation that he"
"""Nighthawks"" has been widely referenced and parodied in popular culture. Versions of it have appeared on posters, T-shirts and greeting cards as well as in comic books and advertisements. Typically, these parodies—like Helnwein's ""Boulevard of Broken Dreams"", which became a popular poster—retain the diner and the highly recognizable diagonal composition but replace the patrons and attendant with other characters: animals, Santa Claus and his reindeer, or the cast of ""The Adventures of Tintin"" or ""Peanuts"". One parody of ""Nighthawks"" even inspired a parody of its own. Michael Bedard's painting ""Window Shopping"" (1989), part of his ""Sitting Ducks"" series of posters,"
"Rich who went, pronounced ""Nighthawks"" 'fine as a Homer', and soon arranged its purchase for Chicago."" The sale price was $3,000. The painting has remained in the collection of the Art Institute ever since. The scene was supposedly inspired by a diner (since demolished) in Greenwich Village, Hopper's neighborhood in Manhattan. Hopper himself said the painting ""was suggested by a restaurant on Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet."" Additionally, he noted that ""I simplified the scene a great deal and made the restaurant bigger."" This reference has led Hopper aficionados to engage in a search for the location of the"
"Jimmy Thackery Jimmy Thackery (born May 19, 1953, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. Thackery spent fourteen years as part of The Nighthawks, the Washington, D.C. based blues and roots rock ensemble. After leaving the Nighthawks in 1986, Thackery toured under his own name. Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Washington, Thackery co-founded The Nighthawks with Mark Wenner in 1972 and went on to record over twenty albums with them. In 1986 he began touring with The Assassins, a six-piece original blues, rock and R&B ensemble which he had previously helped start as a"
"and plays a cornet left to him by Ed ""Doc"" Kittrell, who was an inspiration to the Memphis Nighthawks. Memphis Nighthawks Memphis Nighthawks were a traditional jazz band based in Champaign, Illinois during the 1970s. Founded and led by Ron Dewar, from the School of Music at the University of Illinois, the Nighthawks performed compositions from the early days of jazz. The band members were university music students, for the most part. Under saxophonist Dewar's direction they brought to pre-1930 jazz compositions a precision born of studying classical and modern orchestral music. They achieved a discipline that, combined with their"
"Memphis Nighthawks Memphis Nighthawks were a traditional jazz band based in Champaign, Illinois during the 1970s. Founded and led by Ron Dewar, from the School of Music at the University of Illinois, the Nighthawks performed compositions from the early days of jazz. The band members were university music students, for the most part. Under saxophonist Dewar's direction they brought to pre-1930 jazz compositions a precision born of studying classical and modern orchestral music. They achieved a discipline that, combined with their youthful enthusiasm, distinguished them from the far looser, laid-back style of traditional jazz bands labeled as Dixieland. One distinctive"
"York City Subway ventilation plant. Mulry Square Mulry Square is a triangular parking lot at the southwest corner of Greenwich Avenue and Seventh Avenue South which was once thought to be the site of a wedge-shaped diner that was the inspiration for Edward Hopper's famous painting ""Nighthawks"". The parking lot's fencing supports Tiles for America, a September 11 memorial consisting of some 6,000 tiles created across the country. The square, which is owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, is named after Thomas M. Mulry, founder of the Emigrant Savings Bank and devoted Vincentian. In 2007, the square was considered as"
"housed ""The Night Watch"" at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Many of the paintings on display reflect Arkell's personal taste. Growing up in Canajoharie, landscapes of rural New York State and the Mohawk River are what Arkell found intriguing as well as familiar as they can be seen hanging on the museum walls The permanent collection includes twenty-one paintings by Winslow Homer, works by all members of The Eight, and paintings by leading American Impressionists such as Childe Hassam. George Inness and Ralph Blakelock are also well represented by several works in this impressive collection. American paintings from the"
"the customer base. All this meant diners could serve 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 because diners were anonymous slices of Americana, meaning that the scene could have been taken from any city in the country-and also because a diner was a place to which isolated individuals, awake long after bedtime, would naturally be drawn. The spread of the diner meant that by 1942 it was"
"band in 2004. They were replaced by Paul Bell (lead guitar) and Johnny Castle (bass guitar). The Nighthawks won the Traditional Blues/R&B Duo/Group Award at the 2009 Washington Area Music Awards. In 2011, their album, ""Last Train to Bluesville"" won the Acoustic Album of the Year at the 32nd Blues Music Awards, sponsored by the Blues Foundation. In 2011, they signed with Severn Records. The Nighthawks The Nighthawks are an American blues and roots music band, based in Washington, D.C. As of 2018, The Nighthawks are Mark Wenner (vocals and harmonica), Paul Bell (lead guitar), Johnny Castle (bass guitar), and"
"lifelong interest in capturing the effect of light on the objects it touched, including the nighttime effect of artificial, man-made light spilling out of windows, doorways and porches. ""Nighthawks"" was probably Hopper's most ambitious essay in capturing the night-time effects of man-made light. For one thing, the diner's plate-glass windows cause significant light to spill out onto the sidewalk and the brownstones on the far side of the street. As well, interior light comes from more than a single lightbulb, with the result that multiple shadows are cast, and some spots are brighter than others as a consequence of being"
"album on Telarc and in 2006, ""In the Natural State"" with Earl and Ernie Cate on Rykodisc. In 2007, he released ""Solid Ice"" again with The Drivers. His latest album, ""Spare Keys"", was released in 2016. Jimmy Thackery Jimmy Thackery (born May 19, 1953, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. Thackery spent fourteen years as part of The Nighthawks, the Washington, D.C. based blues and roots rock ensemble. After leaving the Nighthawks in 1986, Thackery toured under his own name. Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Washington, Thackery co-founded The Nighthawks with Mark Wenner"
"Dave Hoover David Harold ""Dave"" Hoover (May 14, 1955 – September 4, 2011) was an American comics artist and animator, most notable for his art on DC Comics' ""The Wanderers"" and ""Starman"" and Marvel Comics' ""Captain America"". Hoover received his B.S. in Media Arts & Animation from the Art Institute of Philadelphia; and his Associate of Specialized Technology in Visual Communication from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Hoover started his career in animation, first as a layout artist for Filmation Studios from 1977–1985, and during that time also worked for several other animation studios including Hanna-Barbera and Mihan Productions. Over"