Hollyhocks

Frederick Carl Frieseke was an American Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. An influential member of the Giverny art colony, his paintings often concentrated on various effects of dappled sunlight. His paintings of voluptuous full-bodied women, many painted at his country home in Giverny, France, recall the work of Pierre Auguste Renoir. 

This painting clearly exemplifies Frieseke's method, which he succinctly explained to American painter and writer, Clara MacChesney: "If you are looking at a mass of flowers in the sunlight out of doors you see a sparkle of spots of different colors-then paint them that way." It is a pure Impressionism, only created nearly 40 years after the original French Impressionism.