Research Noir

From what I can sense of Nighthawks, it has a very film noir feel to it with what the people are wearing, the setting and the way the light falls. I wanted to see whether that had already been some noir pieces inspired by this painting, but all I could find was a very surreal adaptation of one of his other paintings:

Although it wasn't directly related to my topic, I thought it was useful to post anyway.

Upon researching more about Edward Hopper inspired pieces I remembered the cover from 'in the wee small hours' by Frank Sinatra. This shared a similar style to the Hopper painting, despite being released some time after the creation of Nighthawks.

There is also some speculation that Nighthawks may have gained some inspiration from 'The Night Cafe' by Vincent Van Gogh, based on the exhibition of this painting in conjunction with some of Hopper's own work and its exhibition in a gallery in New York, January 1942. However there is little evidence as of yet that I can find to support that.

Next I think I'd like to look at the time the painting was painted at, to see what life was like in America at that point and gain a bit more understanding of the context of the painting itself.