This large oil on canvas was done by Willard Dixon and depicts the Marin County watershed in California. Dixon was born in Missouri and became a painter of Northern California coastal scenes and still lifes inspired by Zen meditation. He began exploring still lifes in the early 1990s, as a way to have more control over the elements in his paintings. He began with tabletop views of fruits and objects that emphasized the horizontal aspects of a subject and eventually moved to more isolated compositions where he explored the "essential nature" of his subjects. The overall size is 35 x 51 in. and the sight size is 33 1/2 x 49 1/2 in.