Where Light and Shadow Meet - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

"Where Light and Shadow Meet" by P. Marcius Simons depicts a river scene with a cathedral or castle-like structure in the background and a bridge with a crucifix. The darkness of the right side of the painting meets with the lightness of the left side of the painting at the base of the crucifix. TR admired the artist's use of light in his paintings. In a letter to the artist dated March 19, 1904, Theodore Roosevelt wrote "I do not greatly care for the reproduction of landscapes which in effect I see whenever I ride and walk. I wish ‘the light that never was on land or sea’, in the pictures that I am to live with – and this light your paintings have." This painting hangs above the fireplace in the North Room at the Theodore Roosevelt Home.