Snow Cones & Popcorn, Summer at the CNE, Elliott Best Original

Every August, Toronto belongs to the Canadian National Exhibition. Since 1879, the Canadian National Exhibition has been the unofficial end of summer — the midway, the food building, the rides, and the particular joy of eating something cold and colourful while the late summer heat does its best.

This Elliott Best pop art piece captures that feeling in cartoon form: a cheerful beverage stand at The Ex, bright and bold, snow cones and popcorn at the ready. It is exactly the kind of image that makes you remember being a kid at the fair, or makes you want to go back and be one again.

Vivid, warm, and unmistakably Canadian — a piece of Toronto summer on your wall, all year round.