Great Lakes Art Database

Normac

Description
Creator
LaMarre, Paul Jr.
Item Type
Paintings
Description
One framed watercolor painting of the passenger steamship, SS Normac, of the Owen Sound Transportation Company. The painting shows a port side bow view of the ship which is moored at a dock in Manitowaning, Georgian Bay, Ontario.
Trees and grass are visible along a shoreline in the foreground. A harbor and faint shoreline can be seen in the background. The artist has signed his name, "Paul C. LaMarre, '75," in the lower left corner. The print is mounted in a decorative walnut or cherry wood frame with a light blue matte border and protective glass. The wood frame has a multi-layered molding which has been stained dark brown and finished with clear semi-gloss lacquer or varnish.
Inscriptions
Reverse - Handwritten blue ink text on the back of the frame matting reads "New picture of "Normac"; Painted in watercolor for me - a special price arranged by Bob Lee, [curator] Dossin Museum; Usually $100 - for me $40. Painted from slide (Normac trip); Lee's slide from my diary of trip - we were here briefly, Manitowaning, Ontario, Georgian Bay, Tuesday June 9, 1964."
[Presumably written by donor, Barbara Brown Zikmund.]
Date of Original
1975
Date Of Event
1964
Dimensions
Width: 24 in
Height: 20 in
Image Dimensions
Image Width: 18in
Image Height: 14in
Subject(s)
Normac (Propeller)
Local identifier
2017.141.002
Collection
Dossin Great Lakes Museum
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
  • Georgian Bay
    Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 45.7427541983658 Longitude: -81.8037592416306
Donor
Barbara Brown Zikmund and Shirley Brown Beltz
Copyright Statement
Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
Contact
Detroit Historical Society
Email:jeremyd@detroithistorical.org
Website:
http://detroithistorical.org

Street/mail address:

Jeremy Dimick

Director of Collections & Curatorial

Detroit Historical Society

5401 Woodward Avenue

Detroit, MI USA 48202

P. 313.297.8391

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Normac


One framed watercolor painting of the passenger steamship, SS Normac, of the Owen Sound Transportation Company. The painting shows a port side bow view of the ship which is moored at a dock in Manitowaning, Georgian Bay, Ontario.
Trees and grass are visible along a shoreline in the foreground. A harbor and faint shoreline can be seen in the background. The artist has signed his name, "Paul C. LaMarre, '75," in the lower left corner. The print is mounted in a decorative walnut or cherry wood frame with a light blue matte border and protective glass. The wood frame has a multi-layered molding which has been stained dark brown and finished with clear semi-gloss lacquer or varnish.