Provincial Parks all along this north shore promote the works of early 1900s painters. The artists are credited with capturing the essence of Canadian wilderness and considered by many as the fathers of the young nation’s signature artistic personality.  There are easels and artists stools set up at actual sketch sites in the wilderness.  It is pretty lofty talk for a parks program but an intriguing story.  Pieces are definitely not classic landscapes but more impressionistic.  The painters themselves claim to have not captured the scene but captured the feel of the place.  Looks about right.

Last night’s ranger program was a showing of the movie “Painted Land” that chronicles the effort to locate the artists sketch sites across the country.  Interesting.

We take one last look at the lake shore as evening light fades then head home to close out a full day in another beautiful place.