Frank Weston Benson, Rainy Day, 1906

From the Art Institute of Chicago:

Like many of his American contemporaries, Frank Benson spent time in Paris in his youth, studying at the Académie Julian. However, after returning to his native soil he never again ventured overseas, choosing instead to work and draw his artistic inspiration from his homes and surroundings in Boston and Salem, Massachusetts, and North Haven, Maine. The artist did not call himself an Impressionist but he did concentrate on the effects of light in his works, and his paintings of his children outdoors at his summer home in Maine are full of dappled sunlight. Rainy Day, in contrast, shows an interior scene, a rarity among Benson’s pictures. Here, his daughter Elizabeth curls up in a chair with a book but her gaze is directed toward a glowing fire, no doubt providing welcome warmth on a dull, stormy day.

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