Edward Hopper (1882-1967) was an American painter best remembered for his eerily realistic depictions of solitude in contemporary American life. Hopper's famous 1942 painting Nighthawks has been spoofed several times in Sesame Street media. The earliest known spoof appeared in two adjacent pages of the 1990 Museum of Monster Art. Joe Mathieu also spoofed Hopper's famous painting in a 2004 issue of Sesame Street Magazine.