In this magnificent and sparkling work, Thomson uses techniques drawn from the decades-old European styles of Impressionism, Pointillism, and the Fauves. There are hints in it of the precision of Georges Seurat , the dabbing strokes of Claude Monet, and the unconventional palette of Henri Matisse. Yet Thomson created something that was distinctly his own: an image of loggers’ pointer boats that captures his overarching vision of a scene he knew well. The debt he owed to other Western painting traditions has been subsumed here into his own sensibility and all-embracing observation.