A woman wearing a white wide-brim sun hat with lavender ribbons and flowing white, blueish, purpleish dress with lavender collar and belt stands in front of an open window with horizontal Venetian blinds. She lightly tugs down on the hat with two fingers of her right hand while confidently placing her left hand on her left hip. Her pale skin, short bond hair, small blue eyes, rosy cheeks, and bright crimson lips draw the focus of viewers away from a vase of colorful flowers on a table covered with a purple/cream check tablecloth. Frederick Carl Frieseke was a second-generation American Impressionist enjoyed who spent many years in France as part of the Giverny art colony and Claude Monet. He was inspired by the figural subjects of Pierre-Auguste Renoir to routinely employ the Impressionist devices of sparkling color and dappled light.

Venetian Blind by Frederick Carl Frieseke (American) - Oil on canvas / 1923 - Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, Nebraska) #womeninart #painting #SheldonMuseumofArt #fineart #FrederickCarlFrieseke #art #frieseke #artwork #womensart #impressionism #amercanartist #oilpainting #artbsky #artoftheday