A Rainy Day, New York

A luminous painting by American Impressionist Childe Hassam, c.1889. A fashionably dressed woman with an umbrella walks past brightly lit shop windows along a rain-slicked sidewalk. Other pedestrians dissolve in wet haze.

Hassam's loose brushwork translates gleaming rain-soaked surfaces into shimmering color, avoiding somber tones. Reflects French Impressionism applied to distinctly American urban subject matter.

Part of a series of weather scenes Hassam produced throughout his career, making him one of the foremost painters of the American city at the turn of the century.