"Evening Glow" is a beautiful Arts & Crafts color woodcut in which each pictorial element is outlined in black as the sky turns gold at sunset. A tall eucalyptus tree is silhouetted against houses illuminated by electric lights.
In some of his early woodcuts Rice would add an identifying "chop", carved from a separate block, a technique many Japanese woodcut artists used as signature seals as well as some western printmakers, such as Gustave Baumann with his hand in heart chop. Rice printed the chop, a stylized California oak tree, in a bright green in the lower right margin.
William S. Rice hand painted his inks onto the blocks rather than applying them with a roller resulting in the impression being very painterly, with brush strokes. Each impression varies in color, more like "monoprints" which are created from the same matrix but vary in color from print to print. Rice's editions were very small and not officially numbered, he once printed 15 and vowed never to do that again.