[0:00]One of my favorite hoppers is a painting called Chop Suey, and it's two women sitting it must be at lunchtime because there's a lot of sun outside.
[0:10]They're in a Chinese restaurant. And extraordinarily, they are out on their own without male escort.
[0:20]They are dressed up and they have a lot of makeup on, which in an earlier generation might have indicated that they were available.
[0:29]In fact, what Hopper's commenting on is a social change that had been coming for a while, but that had affected women of his generation who were more independent.
[0:43]So those kinds of quieter social comments are in his work.
