In the summer of 1937 Nichols made his first trip to Alaska (in emulation of Rockwell Kent, who had spent a year there in 1918-19, and whose work he much admired). Nichols lived in a cabin in Moose Pass, near Seward, and this example depicts a lake with a solitary sailboat in that region of the Last Frontier. An early example of one of Nichols' Alaska paintings.
