This week, Patti is looking at Street Art as the topic for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. I hope I will be forgiven for including a few pictures that do not pertain to street art but I thought it might be interesting to show why the art that I’ve chosen is so apt for the city of Duluth and Canal Park in particular. They also serve a further purpose as I’m linking them to two other photo challenges; Photographing Public Art and Pull Up a Seat.
According to Wikipedia, the Port of Duluth is the world’s farthest inland port accessible to oceangoing ships. As we walked up the street that leads to the massive aerial lift bridge (more on that in a future post) three paintings that were attached to a wall on one of the buildings caught my eye. Unfortunately, I cannot find the artist’s name but until that moment I hadn’t fully appreciated the part that shipping plays in this city. I quickly realized, however, that one of the main tourist attractions in Duluth is to check out the shipping schedule and Take a Seat in Canal Park in order to watch these vessels arrive and depart.
The second piece of artwork (top left) from just outside Canal Park is a sculpture entitled ‘Determined Mariner’ by artist Richard Salews.
Getting the Picture 
Very clever Sue – who knew there could be a port so far inland?!
Thanks, Tina! I don’t usually read up on these things until after we get home, so I was interested to find out about the port thing.
Hi. Those paintings on the buildings are very good. I live near Philadelphia, which has become known for its paintings on buildings. There are probably two or three thousand of them in Philly.
These paintings might easily be missed. They aren’t that big and on a part of the street with not much foot traffic so I was glad we got to see them.
Beautiful pictures and good info, Sue!!
Thank you, Indira. We had a busy few days in Duluth but this was one of my favorite places, down by the harbor.
Hi, Sue. I’m glad you included the “other” pictures. They gave context so we saw the “bigger picture” of where the art was located. I had no idea that Duluth was the farthest inland port in the USA! Very interesting post, Sue!
Thanks, Patti. We finally got to see one of these big ships on our last afternoon in Duluth, so more pictures to follow in a future post.
Sue, your post is not only artistic but informative. None of us know our geography, I guess. As a social science teachers’ advocate, we have all provided living proof that we need to learn more about the geography of our country at least, not to mention the world! 🙂 Super post for PPAC.
Thank you so much, Marsha. I have to admit that I’m woefully ignorant of the geography of the US even after all these years, but actually visiting a location certainly helps to understand and appreciate the various aspects of the place. I wish I’d traveled more when I was younger.
That’s me, too. I didn’t study geography much, and I should have!
Fascinating.
Thanks for stopping by, Rupali.
Interesting and informative too, Sue. I am not good at geography either, especially not in the US. I think Europe and Asia is ok, but it also depends on where my travels have gone to. I had to look up Duluth – always good to learn new things!
Thank you, Ann-Christine!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything of Duluth (except a Duluth Trader catalog). From your photos it looks like a beautiful place. Nice that they have the chairs so people can enjoy the view.
Yes, there was plenty of seating in the park and fortunately the weather was still warm enough that we could take advantage of it.
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Congratulations! I have featured your post of this week’s PPAC.
I sure hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Thank you, Cee!
I can see why Cee picked your post. An introduction to somewhere I don’t know at all.
Thank you for stopping by, Margaret. I hope to post a couple more pieces on Duluth soon.
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I traveled to Duluth many years ago. It was for my job and in the dead of winter no less. I was fascinated by the topography. Coming from essentially the flat land of Illinois it was most interesting. Nice shots.
Thank you! We found Duluth to be an interesting place to visit for much the same reason although we were lucky enough to have good weather for our trip and were able to get out and about.
I know Duluth was somewhere in the Midwest. I had look at a map to see how ships would go to the port and I see a path!
Thank you for stopping by, Julie. It’s always nice to be able to prove a point and you did just that. It was my hope that we would see one of those big ships during our stay in Duluth and on the last afternoon we got to watch one leaving, an event that will appear in a future post.