"Artists of Michigan from the nineteenth century: a sesquicentennial exhibition commemorating Michigan statehood, 1837-1987," Muskegon, Mich.: Muskegon Museum of Art, 1987, pl. 12.
Sweeney, J. Gray, "Great Lakes Marine Painting of the Nineteenth Century," Muskegon, MI: Muskegon Museum of Art, 1983, pg. 69.
Summary:
Dark night waterscape depicting the steamer City of Detroit II, gliding across a calm ocean with his bow heading into the foreground and smoking trailing from its two smokestacks. Overhead the moon, nearly concealed by cloud cover, casts beams of light across the surface of the water.
