Painted either from a kayak or canoe, or dependent on gaining access using one. Biard, Frances Anne Hopkins, and the great Tom Thomson.
Hopkins
From the Duke of Orleans white-water canoeing in Lapland in 1795, to Canadian fur traders shooting the rapids in the 1860s.
Who’d want to paint much of their canvas dull, pale grey? If these paintings are anything to go by, many of the Impressionists
One of very few women to travel long distances by canoe in central Canada, she accompanied her husband on business trips, and painted them.
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