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Nocturne, San Miguel Mission, 1922
Charles Rollo Peters (American, 1862-1928)
Oil on canvas; …
Nocturne, San Miguel Mission
Nocturne, San Miguel Mission, 1922
Charles Rollo Peters (American, 1862-1928)
Oil on canvas; …
Nocturne, San Miguel Mission, 1922 Charles Rollo Peters (American, 1862-1928) Oil on canvas; 16 1/8 × 24 1/8 in. F7695 Martha C. Stevens Memorial Art Collection
Bowers Museum

Nocturne, San Miguel Mission

ClassificationsPaintings-oils
Artist Charles Rollo Peters (American, 1862 - 1928)
Date1922
Place DepictedSan Miguel, California, United States, North America
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions16 1/8 × 24 1/8 in. (41 × 61.3 cm)
Framed: 21 3/16 × 29 7/8 × 2 3/8 in. (53.8 × 75.9 × 6 cm)
Credit LineMartha C. Stevens Memorial Art Collection
Object numberF7695
DescriptionA nocturnal landscape by Charles Rollo Peters depicting the San Miguel Mission. Painters of nocturnal scenes exist in almost every painting community in the world, although they are always in the minority. California nocturnalists include Frank Tenney Johnson and Charles Rollo Peters. The turn of the century saw the rise of several nocturnalists inspired by paintings by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, the American who settled in London where he painted almost abstract works which he called nocturnes. There was also a turn-of-the-century fashion for painting nighttime city scenes in the rain. Artists were fascinated with the light effects resulting from streetlights, carriage lights and lights from windows. Peters appeals to Victorian sentimentality in focusing on the humble home (usually a California adobe) in whose window a light burns, suggesting hospitality.
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