Frederic Remington,

Evening on a Canadian Lake, 1905

Collection of William I. Koch, Palm Beach, Florida

                                                                                                  The Color of Night

                                                                                                  Through March 14, 2004

                                                                                                  Denver Art Museum

Remington was his own harshest critic, for in the same year that he voiced this frustration he also completed two of his finest nocturnes. In Evening on a Canadian Lake, an alarming sound or movement outside the picture plane has caught the attention of the figures in the canoe. The subject of their interest remains unknown. Remington explained his artistic approach: "Cut down and out—do your hardest work outside the picture, and let your audience take away something to think about—to imagine."