This painting depicts two young women reading. It is executed in a realistic representational style, with clear influence from late 19th- and early 20th-century American portraiture and genre scenes.
Signed in the lower right corner with a name resembling "Dickinson". Sidney E. Dickinson (1890-1980) is known for figural works, including women reading, and the style of this painting closely aligns with some of the works attributed to Sidney E. Dickinson.