Starbucks Famous Painting And Artist Coffee Mugs

Edward Hopper painted the Nighthawks in 1942 and it is his most famous piece.  It represents a diner in New York City's Greenwich Village. It's been a frequent reference for pop culture and appears on T-shirts, greeting cards, advertisements, and has been parodied in countless different media.  The Simpsons even used the scene in the "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amemdment" episode.

The coffee mug is a 12 ounce size and has the round Starbucks logo on the handle, and on the yellow wall behind the waiter.

Painted in 1877 by French artist Gustave Caillebotte, the scene is the Place de Dublin building, and a couple strolling in the rain with an umbrella.  The street is near the Gare Saint-Lazare, a railroad station in north Paris. 

Like the Cafe at Night mug, the Starbucks logo is a sign hanging in front of one of the shops in the street.  The mug is a Starbucks Barista mug from 2001 and holds 16 ounces.

The full name of the painting is The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum in Arles. Van Gogh painted it in 1888 in Arles France.  It is supposedly the first painting in which Van Gogh used stars in the night sky. 

The image is used on a variety of Starbucks merchandise other than the mug in my collection.  It is also featured on a tall ceramic cup, an insulated travel mug, and a coffee canister.  This coffee mug is a 14 ounce size and in the painting the Starbucks logo is on a sign hanging next to the door of the cafe.

This is one of a series of paintings Van Gogh painted during the last few months of his life while he lived in Auvers-sur-Oise, north of Paris.  It a stairway leading into the town.  Different versions of this scene have varied numbers of people included in the paintings. 

The mug combines 2 different variations of the stairway into one scene, and there are three Starbucks logos, one above the door of each building.  Van Gogh's painting did not have 2 starways.  It holds 16 ounces and is a Barista mug from 2001.

Starry Night is probably the most recognizable of Van Gogh's paintings. The swirls in the sky are the main focus of the picture.  The tree and the buildings are what he saw outside his window while he was in an asylum in southern France.  He painted several different versions of the view while he was hospitalized there for mental illness in 1889.

The Starbucks coffee mug pictured doesn't have the logo in the scene but it does have the name written in the details.  It holds 16 ounces and is from 2003.  There are several other Starry Night mugs sold by Starbucks including a large 18 ounce mug with a Christmas Tree in the scene. 

Not to be confused with Cafe at Night, the scene in this painting is the inside of Cafe de la Gare, painted in 1888.  The mug version of the painting has blue walls instead of red, and the table in the center of the scene has cups on it.  In the painting it is a billiards table and there are balls on top. The rest of the composition is very similar to Van Gogh's piece.  Despite the differences, I identified it right away by the glow of the lamps above in the cafe. 

There are two Starbucks logos, one above the door and another on the table.  The mug is a Barista from 2001 that holds 16 ounces of liquid.