Oil

1996

Technique: Oil Paint

S.S. KeewatinLake KalamazooSaugatuckDocks

20 in

25-3/4 in

Excellent

From “Keeping an Eye on History” at the OSH 2018 Tug and S.S. Keewatin George Brown oil on canvas, 1996 the story | The S.S. Keewatin was a passenger liner, moored at the Red Dock on the south bank of Lake Kalamazoo, and harkens back to the days of large passenger liners that made Saugatuck a regular stop on their Great Lakes itineraries. Built in Glasgow, Scotland, the Keewatin regularly sailed from Port Arthur in Lake Superior to Port McNicoll on Lake Huron from 1907-1965. In 1967 it was brought into the Douglas harbor and opened as a museum and later listed the National Register of Historic Places. In 2011 it was sold and towed back to Port McNicoll. the artist | George Brown took up painting after he retired as an executive at Ford Motor Company and operated a studio/gallery on Center Street in Douglas for several years in the 1990s. His book An Artist’s Journey, published in 2013, is a brief illustrated history of how he became interested in painting. SDHC Collection, gift of Kenneth R. Carls and James A. Schmiechen Accession number 2018.13.03