“It houses this extraordinary collection of stainglass windows by Marc Chagall and by Henri Matisse,” says Kateri Scott-MacDonald, of Historic Hudson Valley.

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Two goldfish swim in a bowl, confined. Matisse’s windows are playful, childlike, enticing, deceptive, but also on occasion darker, a hint at the unknown that may lurk beyond the comfort of home.

Henri Matisse beside a stained glass at the Chapel of Vence, France, based on a cut-out. Photo: Universal History Archive via Getty Images.

The magnificent 11-foot-tall, star-showering stained glass window, “Nuit de Noël,” of which I once hung a postcard in my hospital room, was the first work I saw entering the Matisse gallery.