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Canoe Art: Paintings, Sketches, Sculpture, Architecture
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"Trade Route" 38x56 inches, hand sewn beadwork
I finished this piece in 2021. Instead of beading the water as water, I filled it with reports, charts and data about the Yakima River (Eastern Washington).
The title refers to the trading of salmon spawning grounds for irrigation. The Yakima is heavily drawn on for irrigation. It once had a annual salmon run of 3/4 million fish. Nowadays the state does cartwheels if they get 30,000.
The detail shows some of the text work. The letters are a little over 1/4 inch tall (5 beads)...they're small
I finished this piece in 2021. Instead of beading the water as water, I filled it with reports, charts and data about the Yakima River (Eastern Washington).
The title refers to the trading of salmon spawning grounds for irrigation. The Yakima is heavily drawn on for irrigation. It once had a annual salmon run of 3/4 million fish. Nowadays the state does cartwheels if they get 30,000.
The detail shows some of the text work. The letters are a little over 1/4 inch tall (5 beads)...they're small
Yknpdlr, I have the same one. My daughter picked it up for me in Syracuse NY a few years ago. I’ll check it out again when I’m home.
Bill, where is this if you know?
In Buffalo NY, across the street from the Albright Knox Gallery iirc. Photo was at Thanksgiving time in 2017. Google Streetview doesn't.seem to show it - so either I'm wrong or it's gone or it wasn't there at that time.
Top one looks like scouts in lean to winter camping with what looks like a square back canoe
Middle one was given to me, up in Syracuse NY. Seems like others have it also that I saw on this thread.
Bottom one, given to me by my 4 th grade student about 6-7 years ago BEFORE I had my green Chestnut. Go figure, she knew my future.
Leslie was her name.
Middle one was given to me, up in Syracuse NY. Seems like others have it also that I saw on this thread.
Bottom one, given to me by my 4 th grade student about 6-7 years ago BEFORE I had my green Chestnut. Go figure, she knew my future.
Leslie was her name.
Not exactly related to this thread but last night I was flicking on the tv and saw a 1972 old fashioned horror movie called “Frogs”. Sam Elliott and Joan Van Arc were trying to escape and were paddling a wood canvas red canoe around 17’ I thought about what movies that had canoes in them then thought about this thread. It was only a 2 minute scene when Sam was paddling then fighting a giant snake while Joan and kids were in the canoe. 50 years old that movie. Think next week it’s Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein! Best to all
It's still there, I drove past it on Saturday 09/10/22
The world's largest canoe paddle is under construction in Killarney, Ontario.
"He calls it the Big Dipper.
“'I was aiming for 100 feet, and then I threw on an extra 10 or so,' Ranta says of the 110-foot-long, 15-foot-tall paddle he’s building in the tiny town of Killarney, Ontario. Originally from Atikokan, Ontario, expedition paddler Ranta spent hundreds of hours building in 2019—except for a six-week hiatus in the summer to paddle from Fort McMurray, Alberta, to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
"To create the paddle, Ranta sawed and fastened 350 boards and beams to build sections of the paddle that were later fastened together. He estimates he used more than 1,000 bolts and five gallons of Titebond glue. Once complete, he expects the Big Dipper will weigh more than three tons. The paddle is now partially assembled, with shaft and blade together."
paddlingmag.com
"He calls it the Big Dipper.
“'I was aiming for 100 feet, and then I threw on an extra 10 or so,' Ranta says of the 110-foot-long, 15-foot-tall paddle he’s building in the tiny town of Killarney, Ontario. Originally from Atikokan, Ontario, expedition paddler Ranta spent hundreds of hours building in 2019—except for a six-week hiatus in the summer to paddle from Fort McMurray, Alberta, to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
"To create the paddle, Ranta sawed and fastened 350 boards and beams to build sections of the paddle that were later fastened together. He estimates he used more than 1,000 bolts and five gallons of Titebond glue. Once complete, he expects the Big Dipper will weigh more than three tons. The paddle is now partially assembled, with shaft and blade together."
Why Mike Ranta is busy building the world’s largest canoe paddle
When Mike Ranta dreams, he dreams big. During the past year, the two-time cross-Canada canoeist has been building the world’s biggest canoe paddle. He
paddlingmag.com
The world's largest canoe paddle is under construction in Killarney, Ontario.
Why Mike Ranta is busy building the world’s largest canoe paddle
When Mike Ranta dreams, he dreams big. During the past year, the two-time cross-Canada canoeist has been building the world’s biggest canoe paddle. He
I just realized that this Paddling Mag article must have been written before 2020, and recycled, because it anticipates that the Big Dipper would be finished in that year. Sure enough, the Big Dipper is now complete and it is a bent shaft paddle.
Visiting 'The Big Dipper' - Stuck at the Airport
You can’t get everywhere by airplane. Sometimes you need to paddle. In Killarney, Ontario, on the North shore of the Georgian Bay, they get that. That’s why they built ‘The Big Dipper,’ – a canoe paddle that is 107 feet long, with a blade width of 17 feet, weighing in at 22,000 pounds. The paddle →
stuckattheairport.com
It probably shouldn't be surprising that Mike Ranta would memorialize a bent shaft paddle in his sculpture because the many pictures and videos of his three cross-Canada canoe trips show him using bent shafts. For example:
I guess you can't judge a book by it's cover. Mike Ranta looks like a typical straight shaft paddle guy to me.
The front page notice block today honored the birthday of Fredric Remington (1861-1909). He was probably best known for his paintings and sketches of cowboys and the Old West of the U.S. However, he also produced a lot of canoe art and was himself a canoer of birchbark and Rushton canoes. Here is some of Remington's canoe art I've collected from the internet:
The Howl of the Weather
The Missionary
Canoe Hunting Expedition
Canoe Stream Moose
Evening on a Canadian Lake
Fly Fishing Canoe
Hauling the Gill Net
Indians Hauling Nets on Lake Nepigon
Moose Hunters
Paddling the Wounded British Officer
Pitched It Sheer Into the River Where It Still Is Seen In the Summer
Radisson and Groseilliers
Spring Fishing in Canada
Lewis and Clark at the Mouth of the Columbia River
On the Northwest Coast
The Howl of the Weather
The Missionary
Canoe Hunting Expedition
Canoe Stream Moose
Evening on a Canadian Lake
Fly Fishing Canoe
Hauling the Gill Net
Indians Hauling Nets on Lake Nepigon
Moose Hunters
Paddling the Wounded British Officer
Pitched It Sheer Into the River Where It Still Is Seen In the Summer
Radisson and Groseilliers
Spring Fishing in Canada
Lewis and Clark at the Mouth of the Columbia River
On the Northwest Coast
Interesting...the lake Nipigon canoe looks like a,west coast design. I've never seen a Anishnabe canoe in that form, but perhaps they had a separate style of big water canoes I haven't seen yet.
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Golden Solitude by Jack Hanzer Susco
Golden Solitude Painting by Jack Hanzer Susco
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I ran across this artist while researching some local trips for 2023. Seems that he does quite a bit of canoe-related art.
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