The Town That Silver Built – Marianne Vander Dussen

The Town That Silver Built


The Town That Silver Built by Marianne Vander Dussen

The Town that Silver Built (30” x 60”, oil on canvas, 2017)

Cobalt, Ontario, was a central hub of silver mining in Canada, and still sits quietly waiting for the rush to return. I took my reference photo by sprinting to get ahead of an incoming ONR train. The original painting hangs in the Ontario Northland office in North Bay Ontario.