Frederick Carl Frieseke’s depictions of women, nude and clothed, reflect his lifelong interest in the effects of light and the Impressionist technique. With its subtle sense of interior light, as well as brightly colored brushstrokes, The Yellow Room exhibits Frieseke's skill in executing striking depictions of women in interiors. Frieseke spent much of his career in France and was among the handful of American painters who summered in Giverny at the turn of the century. He depicted the same room—the living room of his own house in Giverny—in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s The Yellow Room from around 1910. Frieseke lived in Théodore Robinson’s former house next door to Claude Monet’s. Frieseke had painted the walls of his living room a lemon yellow and decorated the room with blue rugs and curtains, a color combination Frieseke might have seen at Monet’s house.