Sunday afternoon saw family Lugs heading out to Kleinburg to visit the McMichael Canadian Collection art gallery. There can be few settings as gorgeous as this one in Canada for the enjoyment of Canadiana art. The log and stone gallery sits nestled in pine trees on a knoll overlooking a lovely river flood plain. The trails around the property are magnificent. Originally designed to house works by the Group of Seven the gallery seems to have diverged from its origninal direction since the McMichaels ceded the place to the government. It was to see one of thes divergences that we went to the gallery on this lovely fall day.
They were having a show of works by the great Canadian naturalist painter Robert Bateman. It was a superb collection of pieces and I particularly enjoyed the personal notes from the artist that accompanied practically every piece. There were pieces from every era of his career. Interestingly, I had seen several of them in books and magazines but in real life the painting were quite different. You could see brush strokes and they were the type of brush stroke one wouldn’t think when laid over the top of one another they would add up to the magnificent whole, but they did. He never really uses black yet, in all the books I had seen the tonal range always went right to black. Well, it was a wonderful show and I was quite moved by several of the pieces, particularly those dealing with clear cut logging and driftnet fishing. We left the gallery quite inspired on a number of levels.
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