The Good Ship Donut

Back in 2006,  artist, teacher, and official Club Historian, Stuart Fullerton, drove out to Fox Lake to find the location of the Palette and Chisel's lost summer camp.

A few years later, I provided a map and offered my best guess for  where it actually was.

Regretfully, there has been no subsequent attempt to purchase the property and return to that Arcadian life-style of fishing, boating, and painting nude models in the great outdoors.

But we have finally located a photograph of the Academy's boat -- the good ship Donut.  (So named, apparently, because it had a hole in the middle)

This picture comes from the newly published  Catalog Raisonne of Gustave Baumann , one of our more famous members (He's the natty gentleman leaning against the mast) It was he who designed the masthead for the Cow Bell (an academy newsletter that has regretfully been discontinued)

He also appeared in a recent show at Art Institute