Night River
oil pastel and oil
4.5" x 7" (11.4 cm x 17.8 cm)

This is the Red River, which runs through Winnipeg, at night, done from memory. It seems though, more like the Red as seen by Whistler than by me. How does that happen? And the painting seems to bear a greater resemblance to the paintings of Whistler and Marquet than to the scene itself. How does that happen?