Canoe Lake Bunkies
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Canoe Lake Bunkies
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
This is number twenty-two in the Canoe Lake Paddle as numbered along the path of the paddle. These bunkies are on the very northern tip of Big Wapomeo Island and are part of Camp Wapomeo for Girls. Imagine having any of these strucutres as your bunkie during the summer!
"Situated on two islands on Algonquin Park's Canoe Lake, Camp Wapomeo for Girls has been offering unforgettable summers to campers since 1924! At Wapomeo, we are dedicated to establishing a comfortable environment for personal and social development of our campers. It is our goal to help foster self-confidence and a sense of accomplishment that comes from overcoming mental, physical, personal, and group challenges. As one of Canada's oldest camps, Wapomeo maintains a tradition of excellence and is distinguished by its outstanding canoe tripping program. From an over-night to fifty days, Wapomeo campers are accustomed to quality canoe trips and unforgettable adventures!"
This is the way Canadian children and children everywhere should be spending their summers - just my opinion of course.
The buildings looked like they could use some serious maintenance. Like any structure, it can be a full time and expensive job to keep these buildings like new. I sincerely hope that his painting will bring back many happy memories to previous campers.
These very rocks are very possibly the same ones where the body of Tom Thomson was secured after it surfaced on Monday morning July 16th, 1017. Dr. Golden Howland, a Toronto physician and professor of neurology at the University of Toronto, arrived a day or two after Thomson's death to occupy the Taylor Statten cottage on Little Wapomeo Island. Dr Howland was spending some quality time with his daughter. There are at least a couple of versions of the story of how and why Thomson's body surfaced. In any event Dr Howland paged On Monday morning, July 16, Dr Howalnd saw an unidentifiable object lying in the water some distance from the shore thinking perhaps that it was a dead loon. Dr. Howland called out to two local guides, George Rowe and Lourie Dickson who were paddling nearby to investigate. They found their friend'ss body. The body was towed to Big Wapomeo Island and anchored there - quite likely to the rocks in front of these bunkies. Tom would have celebrated his fortieth birthday on August 5.
Dr. Howland recorded that Tom's watch had stopped at 12:14. Dr. Howland also reported a bruise about 10 cm across the right temple, air issuing from the lungs, and some bleeding from the right ear.
The feel of the painting is a strong function of the smooth but textured surface, the bold strokes and the aging oils. I was still working with the original palette of paint from several weeks before. Some of the oils were getting gooey. I was just adding new pigments as I needed them. Waste not, want not... I used a lot of paint on this small and very slippery surface. I simply laid the oils in and tried to leave them alone - continued stroking of the paint would turn the oils into mud. I scratched my signature into the wet paint with a tooth-pick.
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