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On the Road to Banff

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacttat.04.02
Artist
Takao Tanabe (1926 – , Canadian)
Date
1983
Medium
coloured woodcut on paper
Catalogue Number
TaT.04.02
Description
The top two thirds of the work is blue-streaked sky, a range of snowclad mountains appear on the horizon, the lower third represents the earth with undulating bands of colour ranging from light yellow at the top to dark blue at the bottom, giving green variations throughout.
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Artist
Takao Tanabe (1926 – , Canadian)
Title
On the Road to Banff
Date
1983
Medium
coloured woodcut on paper
Dimensions
48.0 x 71.0 cm
Description
The top two thirds of the work is blue-streaked sky, a range of snowclad mountains appear on the horizon, the lower third represents the earth with undulating bands of colour ranging from light yellow at the top to dark blue at the bottom, giving green variations throughout.
Subject
landscape
prairies
Canadian Rockies
mountains
Credit
Gift of William Rimmer, 1987
Catalogue Number
TaT.04.02
Images
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Evening Mt. Fuji During the Upward Wind

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactchy.04.08%20a-c
Artist
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)
Date
1895
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
ChY.04.08 a-c
Description
This triptych features four women spread across three panels with Mt. Fuji softly in the background. A stretch of bushes separated the women from the background and is mostly grey. The lone Mt. Fuji is the only background with paper tone behind it. In the first panel Mt. Fuji starts and two wome…
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Artist
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838 – 1912, Japanese)
Title
Evening Mt. Fuji During the Upward Wind
Date
1895
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
37 x 72 cm
Description
This triptych features four women spread across three panels with Mt. Fuji softly in the background. A stretch of bushes separated the women from the background and is mostly grey. The lone Mt. Fuji is the only background with paper tone behind it. In the first panel Mt. Fuji starts and two women stand with their bodies facing eachother. The smaller woman is pointing at Mt. Fuji. In the second panel a woman stands in the rc, her body facing right and her head turned back to the left. She has her back to the mountain which is mostly featured in the second panel. In the third panel a woman sits on a bench facing left with her hand by her chest. A lamp is to the left of her bench. The ground the woman are on is mostly paper tone with a light wash.
Subject
figures
woman
landscape
mountain
Mt. Fuji
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ChY.04.08 a-c
Images
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