Years ago, my wife Molly and I stopped in Venice, Florida down on the Gulf Coast, to visit former neighbors who had retired and moved there. A few miles to the east is the beautiful Myakka River, that flows south from the state park named for it and terminates in Charlotte Harbor (a place visited a few years earlier by Hernando De Soto).
While those folks lived in town, he showed me some acreage they had bought on the Myakka River,
with plans to build a nice cabin on it. The painting Fishing Camp is my interpretation of how it turned
out, based on my memory and a photo.
The prominent tree is a cedar, very common on and near our Florida shores and waterways. Farther
north, Cedar Key, just below the Suwannee River delta, must have had heavy cedar forests, since it was
feasible to construct a rail line there to harvest and ship it for cedar planking, wooden matches, etc.
Hopefully, the Myakka River still has that pristine look - and the cedars, palms, herons, anhingas (and
maybe a fishing camp) are still there.
_ Bob Schuh
Original Oil on canvas
1875.00 unframed - 20" x 30"
2175.00 framed as shown - 20" x 30"
Numbered and Signed Fine Art Prints
Unframed
157.50 unframed - 10" x 15" (print size)
395.50 unframed - 20" x 30" (print size)
Framed as Shown
342.50 - 10" x 15" (print size), 17" x 22" (outside frame dimension)
695.50 - 20" x 30" (print size), 28" x 39" (outside frame dimension)
Edition Information
Title: Fishing Camp
Image Sizes: 10" x 15" l 20" x 30"
Edition Sizes: 25 l 15
Publish Date: April 15, 2008
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