Frederick Carl Frieseke was born on April 7, 1874 in Owosso, Michigan. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League before traveling to Paris in 1897. In 1906, he and his wife moved into a cottage next to Claude Monet’s property in Giverny, France. Frieseke’s palette during his Giverny period consisted of greens, blues, violets, and whites.

Sarah Frieseke in her Garden, Giverny, c. 1912, illustrates a walled garden of greens, blues, violets, and white capturing the effects of light. Frieseke, instead of relying primarily on an Impressionistic approach, combines the colors, atmosphere, and subject matter of Monet’s Impressionist paintings in Giverny with the technique of the Post-Impressionists.