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The Art Institute of Chicago holds Edward Hopper’s famous painting, “Nighthawks”. Hopper allegedly based the painting on a diner that was located in New York City’s Greenwich Village, in an area where Greenwich Street meets 11th Street and 7th Avenue (Mulry Square). But he actually based the painting on an all-night coffee stand. “I simplified the scene a great deal and made the restaurant bigger,” he said. “Unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.”
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