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American Painting and Sculpture
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Frederick Carl Frieseke
Girl Reading
c. 1903-1904
32 x 25 ¾ in.
Oil on canvas
© The Kilmer Family Trust
85.168
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Japanese woodcuts flooded the European market in the late 19th century, finding an especially appreciative audience among French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters. Many artists became collectors, and some even included Japanese art in the backgrounds of their own paintings, as Frederick Frieseke did here. This American Impressionist painter probably first fell under the spell of Japanese design while he was studying in Paris. The compressed perspective, flattened color, and linear embellishment seen in this painting are borrowed from Japanese aesthetics.
Wintermann Collection of American Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. David R. Winterman
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