Who painted a view of Phillies Diner at night?

Edward Hopper painted a view of Phillies Diner at night. The scene is best known as *Nighthawks*, his 1942 oil painting of a brightly lit urban diner viewed from the dark street outside.

The word “Phillies” refers to the cigar advertisement above the restaurant, reading “Phillies 5¢,” rather than the diner’s official name. Hopper said the composition was suggested by a restaurant on Greenwich Avenue in New York City, where two streets met, but he simplified and enlarged the setting rather than depicting the location literally.

*Nighthawks* shows three customers and a counter worker inside the diner. Although the figures are close together, they appear psychologically isolated, a quality that helped make the painting an enduring image of modern urban loneliness. Hopper’s wife, Josephine, recorded notes about the work and helped inspire its title.

A common mix-up is to call the painting *Phillies Diner* or assume “Phillies” identifies the restaurant. The canonical title is *Nighthawks*, and the canonical artist answer is Edward Hopper, often shortened fairly to Hopper.