Priest, Yukon River
432/950 Limited Edition 11 1/8” x 9 3/4”

Rie made three starts on this subject; in the first painting she used the actual colors of the church. Too somber, out it went. In her second effort the priest was as stiff as the rake. It too was tossed out. With this third attempt, she was happy.

It depicts the "New" church at Russian Mission on the Yukon River. Dilapidated as the new church may be, the "old church" teeters precariously in the tall grass only a hundred yards or so away and must surely be held up solely by miraculous intervention.