A single white pine bends hard against the wind atop a granite point on Georgian Bay, holding the eye at the center of the canvas while a mixed stand of birch, cedar and maple crowds in behind it. Open water shows on both sides of the point, and a shallow pool of rainwater caught in the foreground rock reflects the trees above it. Georgian Bay was one of Panabaker’s most frequent subjects, and the windswept pine one of his most recurring motifs.
About Frank Panabaker
Frank Panabaker (1904–1992) grew up in Hespeler, Ontario, and by his teens was sketching under the Toronto painter McGillivray Knowles. He went on to study at the Ontario College of Art and at New York’s Grand Central School of Art, and was exhibiting professionally by 1927. He built a rare career among Canadian painters of his generation: fully self-supporting, including through the Depression years. Sara Delano Roosevelt chose one of his paintings as a gift for her son, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and it hung in the White House for years afterward. Panabaker was named an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy, served as a trustee of the National Gallery of Canada, and was inducted into the Hamilton Gallery of Distinction in 1996. He painted apart from the Group of Seven by choice, calling himself instead “the Group of One.”
Artwork Details
- Artist: Frank Panabaker
- Title: Georgian Bay
- Medium: Oil on Panel
- Size: 16″ h × 20″ w
- Subject: Georgian Bay, Windswept Pine
- Style: Canadiana
- Art Category: Original
- Framing: Original period frame
Care and Display
Keep this painting out of direct sunlight and away from humidity or heating vents, and dust the surface only with a soft, dry brush.
Framing and Shipping
The painting is presented in a gold gallery frame with a wide linen mat, with outside dimensions of approximately 24.5″ h × 28.5″ w. It arrives ready to hang. We pack and crate historical works of this kind for shipping, or can arrange local pickup in Ancaster, Ontario. Contact us if you would like a virtual placement of this piece on your own wall before you commit.
See more of Frank Panabaker’s work on his artist biography page.
