Canoe Art: Paintings, Sketches, Sculpture, Architecture
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Nothing creepy about that!
Jim
Jim
Is the title of this sculpture, “Klingon Courting Canoe”?
"The sculpture depicts Robert Rogers, who commanded the famous Rogers’s Rangers, and five Mohicans paddling a birch-bark style canoe."
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Canoe sculpture unveiled at Lake George Lakefront Walkway - The Lake George Examiner
A life-sized sculpture of Robert Rogers and five Native Americans paddling a canoe, the creation of chainsaw artist Paul Stark, was unveiled today in Lake George.
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This image was shared on the sailing group in Facebook by Holger David Kelm with "oh oh" as the caption. It is from the Kip Marina at Inverkip, Grennock, Scotland.
Benson
Benson
That one didn't come off the form right
I didn't know Escher made canoes
It's a capsize proof canoe for extreme rapids, or surf.
The Secrets Of The Group Of Seven Continue To Be Discovered
"Their paintbrushes swept expertly through the oil paint, not unlike their paddles cut deftly through the water. It’s been 101 years since the Group of Seven first showed their works in downtown Toronto, Canada, and helped shape a distinctive Canadian art style."
"Many of their iconic images would have been impossible to create without canoes to access the painting sites."
How Art Has Inspired A Scavenger Hunt In Canada's Wilderness
101 years later, people are still searching for these famed locations.
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"Because the Group of Seven did not keep notes of where each artwork was made, each painting is a puzzle waiting to be solved. The hunt to identify the locations of the sketches and paintings and the routes the Group paddled is at the heart of the McGuffins’ 2015 film Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven."
For the true artists in the crowd:
saranaclakeartworks.org
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Adirondack Plein Air Festival
Plein Air - Artworks Saranac Lake
Adirondack Art - fresh off the easel! Saranac Lake, NY hosts the Adirondack Plein Air Festival. Huge Show & Sale the 3rd week in August.
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Adirondack Plein Air Festival
The annual Adirondack Plein Air Festival brings talented artists from around the nation to paint in the scenic splendor of Saranac Lake, culminating in a show and sale.
Farmers is Bangladesh arrange bundles of water lilies harvested in a wetland near Barishal. Every flower is hand picked, collected in a small boat, bundled, and sold at the market. The water lily is the national flower of Bangladesh. It’s edible and a popular vegetable on the menu.
Statue of Snorri Thorfinnsson in Iceland. He is reputed in Viking lore to be the first child of European descent born in the Americas, between 1004 and 1013, somewhere in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland or the northeastern United States.
I always like to see this on my way out to n/w Ontario. The voyageur statue in Mattice, Ontario. Missinaibi river in the background.
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Was just thinking of Bingham's Fur Traders- have always loved that.
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An eight foot long Old Town display canoe from 1924 and a half size reproduction of a Passamaquoddy paddle from 1849 seem to go well together.
Benson
Benson
Cast Into Mystery wood engraving by Wesley Bates
Little aluminum canoe used as a planter.
Silo art by the school kids.
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