Oh Ji-ho (1905-1982) was an artist who depicted the colonial reality of the country in many impressionist paintings. From his time as a student at the Tokyo Art School onwards, he devoted himself to inventing a Korean style of painting wholly distinct from Japanese painting. In this painting, a girl is depicted coming out of a door behind an old tree, while a white dog lying down in the courtyard adds a quiet and peaceful mood to the scene. What makes this painting even more interesting is that the shadow of the old tree is expressed in blue rather than the usual black, creating a contrast with the overall yellow tone. The painter wrote ‘Year of 1939’ on the bottom right side along with his signature. This painting has considerable historical value as it shows that Korean art circles developed their own style while accepting the West’s then representative painting style of impressionism.