Readers and viewers will not be surprised that Panton was associated with the modernist generation that followed the Group of Seven and that their influence is evident in his work. The painting demonstrates his strong sense of design and colour in a stylized composition of a stormy day many cottagers have experienced in the Muskokas.

Lawrence Arthur Colley Panton (1894–1954) was President of the Ontario Society of Artists (1931–1937), a founding member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts as well as the Canadian Group of Painters. He exhibited extensively in Canada and overseas, including at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition in Wembley.

L. A. C. Panton was a British-born Canadian artist and influential art teacher. He immigrated to Canada in 1911 and served with the Signal Corps during the First World War. After returning from service, Panton studied art at the Ontario College of Art and the Central Technical School in Toronto. He began his artistic career as a designer with the Toronto printing firm Rous & Mann, after which he embarked on a teaching career, becoming one of the country’s most respected art educators. He was Director of Art at Western Technical School (1926–1937), then taught at Northern Vocational School (1937–1951), and was Principal of the Ontario College of Art from 1951 until his death in 1954 at the age of 60.