The American painter Edward Hopper (1882-1967) captured the bleakness and the loneliness of certain aspects of American life. Many of his best-known paintings are of New York City urban scenes with a stark, eerie quality-empty streets and semi-deserted cinemas, restaurants, and offices. Indeed, his most famous work, Nighthawks, portrays an all-night diner occupied by a few customers, isolated from one another and harshly lit by electric lights. Question The author of the passage mentions Nighthawks because it is a painting from Hopper's later years Owell-known painting that exemplifies Hopper's work O recently discovered painting by Hopper painting of New York City that inspired Hopper