Richard Miller's At the Window features the artist's favorite subject-an interior with a solitary, pensive woman brightly illuminated by sparkling daylight from a nearby window. The St. Louis native painted the canvas in Paris, where he spent 15 years beginning in 1899. The painting's vibrant palette, geometrical structure and decorative quality reveal the impact of the artist's French experience. In the first decade of the 20th century, Miller came in contact not only with Impressionism, but also with the more avant-garde artists of the Nabis and Fauve groups, whose loose brushwork and rich, thickly painted surfaces Miller adopted. Even so, Miller's early training in drawing remains visible in the careful, tightly rendered description of the woman's face.
