Moonlit Monterey landscape with a tranquil body of water reflecting the evening sky. A luminous full moon illuminates a stand of trees and distant shoreline, exemplifying Charles Rollo Peters' celebrated Tonalist nocturnes and atmospheric treatment of California's coastal landscape.
Depicts The Castro-Work Adobe (La Mirada) second location for the Monterey Museum of Art. With other adobes in the Alta Mesa area in the background and a portion of the El Estero Lagoon in the foreground.
Peters built a home in Monterey and his name became almost synonymous with landscapes of crumbling adobes painted in the witchery of moonlight. He was leader of the group of American Luminists which centered about the Del Monte Art Gallery when it opened at the old Hotel Del Monte in 1907.
