Turning his artistic attention to the city itself, Fleury showed a Chicago River scene in his debut at the Art Institute. (schwartzcollection.com)
Although the show has no examples of Bengal School painting, an undated gouache river scene by Narayan Shridhar Bendre (1910 - 92) recalls the idealizing, bucolic, precolonial vision of such work. (nytimes.com)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Twilight Time, Blu - Ray), Sam Peckinpah's personal favorite of his films, opens on an idyllic river scene with a pregnant girl soaking her feet in the lazy current with a beatific smile on her face. (seanax.com)