Landscape also figures in this later work, painted while Hopper and Jo were on a winter sojourn in California. (She models for him here, as she did in many of his oil paintings.) Some artists would have focused on the moody landscape, but Hopper frames the view through the picture window of a motel room. The room looks brand-new, although there is nothing particularly stylish about the stark decor. The vista of distant hills is beautiful, but, like much modern architecture, the motel feels isolated from the surrounding landscape. Inside and outside are two different worlds; Hopper offers us no middle ground except for a strip of highway.