Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. Completed in approximately 1657–59, the well-preserved painting is on display at the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden. For many years, the attribution of the painting—which features a young Dutch woman reading a letter before an open window—was lost, with first Rembrandt and then Pieter de Hooch being credited for the work before it was properly identified in 1880. After World War II, the painting was briefly in possession of the Soviet Union. The painting depicts
The Man with the Golden Arm (novel) at the time, and it did receive some critical reviews. In a 1956 article for "The New Yorker" entitled "The Man with the Golden Beef," Norman Podhoretz was critical of what he saw as the glorification of the underclass at the expense of respectable society. This sentiment was shared by Leslie Fiedler in an article on Algren's writings for "The Reporter" entitled "The Noble Savages of Skid Row." Like Algren's previous novel, "Never Come Morning", "The Man with the Golden Arm" drew fire from leaders of Chicago's Polish community, who criticized the portrayal of their community in the story. Royko