Charles
Rollo Peters, San Fernando Mission, not dated, Crocker Art Museum,
Sacramento, California, Gift of William C. Wright According
to a close friend, Remington became intrigued with the challenge of painting
night in the fall of 1899 after seeing an exhibition of paintings in New
York by a California artist named Charles Rollo Peters. An admirer of
Whistler’s
nocturnes, Peters had returned from a period of study abroad and begun
painting moonlit views of California missions. Sixteen of these compositions
were included in the exhibition that sparked Remington’s interest
in the coloristic effects of moonlight.
