"Bookcase - Northwest Passage"
"Bookcase - Northwest Passage" Bookcase
Acrylic
18"x24"
Detail from "Bookcase - Northwest Passage"
Detail from "Bookcase - Northwest Passage"
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Detail from "Bookcase - Northwest Passage"
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Detail from "Bookcase - Northwest Passage"
Detail from "Bookcase - Northwest Passage"
This painting was displayed at the Reynolds Public Library in 2013.
Inspired by the book, 'Northwest Passage' written by Kenneth Roberts in 1936. It recounts the journey of Robert Rogers and his Rangers in 1759 through the wilderness and his dream of finding a northwest passage. This particular copy has an inscription to a young man travelling to the northwest in 1938.
The stone knife in the picture next to the powderhorn is the one depicted on the beaded whiskey flask on my home page. The quill pen next to the traveling ink bottle is from a Barred owl.
The larger print is life-size and when hung on the wall looks like a real book shelf.
Signed archival prints available:
11"x14" $35.00
18"x24" $125.00
Inspired by the book, 'Northwest Passage' written by Kenneth Roberts in 1936. It recounts the journey of Robert Rogers and his Rangers in 1759 through the wilderness and his dream of finding a northwest passage. This particular copy has an inscription to a young man travelling to the northwest in 1938.
The stone knife in the picture next to the powderhorn is the one depicted on the beaded whiskey flask on my home page. The quill pen next to the traveling ink bottle is from a Barred owl.
The larger print is life-size and when hung on the wall looks like a real book shelf.
Signed archival prints available:
11"x14" $35.00
18"x24" $125.00
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The Story of the copy of this book
I began searching for a copy of this book in 1987. I started in a local library outside of Chicago where I lived at the time. Not being able to find it, I asked the librarian if it could be found in the library system. She told me it was out of print and couldn't be obtained. Seven years later, I met my husband, Mike. The title of the book came up in a conversation and as it turned out he read the book and used to have a copy, but it was lost 25 years before in storage. In 2000, while shopping for Christmas presents, I went into an antique shop and while looking through a stack of old books, I found this copy of "Northwest Passage". I couldn't believe my unbelievable good fortune as I went up to the counter and paid $2.00 for this precious treasure and a chance to surprise my husband with this book on Christmas morning. On Christmas morning, all of the gifts were exchanged and unwrapped until there was only one gift under the tree. I told Mike not to get too excited, as this was the least expensive gift under the tree this year. As he unwrapped it and opened the cover page he fell silent and just stared at it. It was the very copy, with the inscription, that he lost all of those years ago. Coincidently, the librarian that I had asked about the book in 1987 was also his best friend's sister. This was seven years before I met him. |