There is no shade in existence that more powerfully communicates urban alienation than this noxious pallid green, which only came into being with the advent of electricity, and which is inextricably associated with the nocturnal city of glass towers, empty illuminated offices and neon signs.
Olivia Laing
on Hopper's Nighthawks
The Lonely City
2016
image
sketch by Edward Hopper
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