With Hopper we sometimes wonder if he ever went to art school. But after studying him one gradually learns that the awkward passages in his paintings are thoughtful and shrewdly placed. Hopper often cropped his paintings to look like they were captured by the lens of a movie camera. The scenes that he painted are not filled with lonliness but are simply about lonely people. What makes this a masterwork is not only the climate, the color, and the light, but the inspired solitude with which it is imbued.