The Goldfish Window

Frederick Childe Hassam was a prominent and prolific American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. After living in Paris for couple of years he returned to New York, and began a series of "window" paintings, usually featuring a contemplative female model in a flowered kimono before a light-filled curtained or open window, as in The Goldfish Window. These scenes were popular with museums and quickly snapped up.

Hassam was especially prolific and energetic in the period from 1910 to 1920, causing one critic to comment, "Think of the appalling number of Hassam pictures there will be in the world by the time the man is seventy years old!" As a founding member of The Ten, an influential group of American artists of the early 20th century, along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, he was instrumental in propagating the spread of Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums.

Shannon, thank you for inspiration!