Thousands of northbound TORONTO motorists see its rainbow colours every day.  Constructed in 1962, painted by an unsung artist, the Rainbow Tunnel is probably the most-viewed culvert in the world.  In 2008, it even made the cover of a Tate Britain publication.

Artist PETER DOIG was born in Edinburgh, lived in Montreal in the mid-1980’s, and is especially known for abstract landscape paintings.  Our rainbow culvert apparently caught his eye, and in 2001 he painted it.  “Country Rock” was part of an exhibition – “Spectral Landscapes” – at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 952 Queen Street West, organized by the National Gallery of Canada.  The culvert itself was recently repainted.