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Cabin at Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Marion Boyd Allen (1862 – 1941, American)

Date: 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: AbM.02.01

Description: General colours: brown, green, purple and red. Central image is a log cabin coming out from left side. The front door is framed on either side by colourful hanging clothes and Aivo chairs, one on each side. In the background to the right is another cabin. Behind and above are trees, a patch of grey…

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Artist: Marion Boyd Allen (1862 – 1941, American)

Title: Cabin at Lake O'Hara

Date: 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20.2 x 25.6 cm

Description: General colours: brown, green, purple and red. Central image is a log cabin coming out from left side. The front door is framed on either side by colourful hanging clothes and Aivo chairs, one on each side. In the background to the right is another cabin. Behind and above are trees, a patch of grey sky in the upper right corner and a purple mountain face in the upper left.The painting was originally given by the artist, to Syd Graves (who managed Lake O’Hara for many years). It was then given to Bill Brewster, who gave it to Rita Crick, who gave it to the Peter Whyte Gallery.

Subject: architecture; cabin; landscape; Canadian Rockies; Lake O'Hara area

Credit: Gift of Rita Crick, 1978

Catalogue Number: AbM.02.01

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Summit of the Rockies and Mt. Field

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Artist: James Alfred Aitken (1846 – 1897, Scottish)

Date: c. 1886

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: AiJ.05.01

Description: The scene is comprised mainly of a mountain and a lake. The lake takes up approx. 1/2 of the work, and is cropped in the brc by the frame. The blc is the shoreline of the lake. On the right and left side of the piece, just above the lake, the beginning of two treed mountain sides head out of the…

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Artist: James Alfred Aitken (1846 – 1897, Scottish)

Title: Summit of the Rockies and Mt. Field

Date: c. 1886

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: The scene is comprised mainly of a mountain and a lake. The lake takes up approx. 1/2 of the work, and is cropped in the brc by the frame. The blc is the shoreline of the lake. On the right and left side of the piece, just above the lake, the beginning of two treed mountain sides head out of the picture frame. These two slopes frame a clear mountain in the background which is centered in the middle of the piece. They sky is quite cloudy.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Mt. Field

Credit: Gift of Donald Grace, Saanichton, 1997

Catalogue Number: AiJ.05.01

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Mt. Rundle, Vermilion Lakes, Banff, N.W.T.

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.06

Description: Mt. Rundle with Vermilion Lakes in foreground. A figure in a canoe is on the shore of the lake in the lower centre of image.

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Title: Mt. Rundle, Vermilion Lakes, Banff, N.W.T.

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 33.5 x 48.6 cm

Description: Mt. Rundle with Vermilion Lakes in foreground. A figure in a canoe is on the shore of the lake in the lower centre of image.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Mount Rundle; Vermilion Lakes; activity; canoeing

Credit: Gift of Ted and Judy Mills, Mill Bay, 2005

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.06

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Cultus Creek

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Artist: Charles Morrise Brousson ( – 1941)

Date: 1920

Medium: oil on wood

Catalogue Number: BrC.02.01

Description: A primitive painting on a piece of wood. The foreground is beige and brown bank with a white and brown tepee on the left. Beyond this the creek, blue and white extends to mid centre. The top half of the painting is a slope covered with trees to left and a mountain, blue, white and green, to the ri…

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Artist: Charles Morrise Brousson ( – 1941)

Title: Cultus Creek

Date: 1920

Medium: oil on wood

Dimensions: 10.5 x 15.1 cm

Description: A primitive painting on a piece of wood. The foreground is beige and brown bank with a white and brown tepee on the left. Beyond this the creek, blue and white extends to mid centre. The top half of the painting is a slope covered with trees to left and a mountain, blue, white and green, to the right. A cloudy grey sky.

Subject: Canadian Rockies; landscape; mountain; creek; building; tepee

Credit: Gift of Earle Birney, Toronto, 1969

Catalogue Number: BrC.02.01

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Baker Creek

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.01

Description: General colour: blue, purple, green. Creek is surrounded on all sides by snow covered rocks and shrubs. The water comes down from the upper right of center to the lower center and of right near the bottom. In the lower left corner is a bare branched bush. Across the top is snow covered evergreens. …

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Baker Creek

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 90.2 x 100.2 cm

Description: General colour: blue, purple, green. Creek is surrounded on all sides by snow covered rocks and shrubs. The water comes down from the upper right of center to the lower center and of right near the bottom. In the lower left corner is a bare branched bush. Across the top is snow covered evergreens. Clear sky and a distant hill in the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; winter; Baker Creek

Credit: Gift of Evelyn Browne, Durham, USA, 1968

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.01

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Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Duncan Darroch (1888 – 1967, New Zealander)

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DaD.02.02

Description: A realistic rendering of Lake O'Hara, blue lake in foreground, mountains occupying most of picture, snow covered mountain in top centre; and towards left centre; a little sky at top; signed brc: Duncan Darroch. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J.I., Brewster in any exhibition or publication of…

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Artist: Duncan Darroch (1888 – 1967, New Zealander)

Title: Lake O'Hara

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 46.0 x 51.0 cm

Description: A realistic rendering of Lake O'Hara, blue lake in foreground, mountains occupying most of picture, snow covered mountain in top centre; and towards left centre; a little sky at top; signed brc: Duncan Darroch. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J.I., Brewster in any exhibition or publication of the collection, either in whole or in part. Banff Centre identification numbers: 81 0332 A; 20685.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986

Catalogue Number: DaD.02.02

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The Goodsirs

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Artist: Duncan Darroch (1888 – 1967, New Zealander)

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DaD.02.03

Description: A realistic rendering of The Goodirs mountain range; the peaks dominate the centre top half, light blue sky above; in the foreground a river meanders from bottom right across bottom; evergreen trees on the banks; splashes of colours, reds, yellow in foreground. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs.…

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Artist: Duncan Darroch (1888 – 1967, New Zealander)

Title: The Goodsirs

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 41.0 x 51.2 cm

Description: A realistic rendering of The Goodirs mountain range; the peaks dominate the centre top half, light blue sky above; in the foreground a river meanders from bottom right across bottom; evergreen trees on the banks; splashes of colours, reds, yellow in foreground. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition or publication. Banff Centre identification numbers: 81 0333 A; 20686.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986

Catalogue Number: DaD.02.03

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Mount Biddle at Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American)

Date: 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: HbA.02.01

Description: General colour: lower canvas: greens and purples, upper canvas: blues and purples. In the foreground there is water surrounded by rocks. In the middle ground there are trees rising to a mountain face which goes to the top of the canvas. Cloudy sky appears in the upper left corner.

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Artist: Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American)

Title: Mount Biddle at Lake O'Hara

Date: 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 87 x 76.5 cm

Description: General colour: lower canvas: greens and purples, upper canvas: blues and purples. In the foreground there is water surrounded by rocks. In the middle ground there are trees rising to a mountain face which goes to the top of the canvas. Cloudy sky appears in the upper left corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Lake O'Hara; Mount Biddle

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: HbA.02.01

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Ptarmigan Pass, Canadian Rockies

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Artist: Lars Jonson Haukaness (1862 – 1929, American)

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: HkL.02.01

Description: Landscape painting of Ptarmigan Pass painted in taupe, green and mauve. The landscape extends out from hills and mountains on the right of the painting. Two lakes are visible in the centre of the image. One is closer to the right of the painting and is in the foreground more than the other. Mou…

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Artist: Lars Jonson Haukaness (1862 – 1929, American)

Title: Ptarmigan Pass, Canadian Rockies

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Description: Landscape painting of Ptarmigan Pass painted in taupe, green and mauve. The landscape extends out from hills and mountains on the right of the painting. Two lakes are visible in the centre of the image. One is closer to the right of the painting and is in the foreground more than the other. Mountains are visible in the upper left corner of the image. A bare rocky area makes up the foreground and bottom portion of the painting.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Ptarmigan Pass; Skoki; Lars Haukaness

Credit: Purchased from Donald Grace, Saanichton, 2000

Catalogue Number: HkL.02.01

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Untitled [The Mountains at Banff]

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Artist: James Henderson (1871 – 1951, Canadian)

Date: c. 1925

Medium: oil on panel

Catalogue Number: HnJ.02.01

Description: Unidentified rocky mountain with grassy and tree-covered slope in the foreground.

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Artist: James Henderson (1871 – 1951, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [The Mountains at Banff]

Date: c. 1925

Medium: oil on panel

Dimensions: 22.2 x 30.5 cm

Description: Unidentified rocky mountain with grassy and tree-covered slope in the foreground.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

Credit: Gift of James E. Lanigan, Calgary, 2019

Catalogue Number: HnJ.02.01

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Colin Range, Maligne

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Artist: Alexander Young Jackson (1882 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1924 – 1924

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: JaA.03.14

Description: A stylistically loose drawing of a mountain range. The mountains take up the whole drawing and are cropped on all sides. 1/5 of the drawing is a sky with faint clouds. The line in the drawing is very soft with exception to the mountain in the middle of the picture which has been drawn heavily wi…

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Artist: Alexander Young Jackson (1882 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Colin Range, Maligne

Date: 1924 – 1924

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 13.0 x 21.5 cm

Description: A stylistically loose drawing of a mountain range. The mountains take up the whole drawing and are cropped on all sides. 1/5 of the drawing is a sky with faint clouds. The line in the drawing is very soft with exception to the mountain in the middle of the picture which has been drawn heavily with strong lines and a sharp peak. This is the only mountain with any shading (although minimal). The other mountains consist of only line.

Subject: Landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Donald Grace, Saanichton, 1997

Catalogue Number: JaA.03.14

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Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928

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Artist: Richard Jack (1866 – 1952, Canadian)

Date: c. 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: JkR.02.03

Description: A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of …

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Artist: Richard Jack (1866 – 1952, Canadian)

Title: Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928

Date: c. 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.5 x 60.3 cm

Description: A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of an open space where the men in kilts are standing. Mount Rundle rises up behind the Hotel. A flagpole, trees and coloured tents are dispersed through the crowd in the middle of the painting.

Subject: architecture; Banff Springs Hotel; landscape; Canadian Rockies; activity; Highland Gathering

Credit: Gift of Joan Fitt, Calgary, 2001

Catalogue Number: JkR.02.03

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Temple Mountain from the Saddle

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Artist: Franz Hans Johnston, R. C. A. (1888 – 1949, Canadian)

Date: c. 1926

Medium: painting on paper

Catalogue Number: JoF.07.01

Description: A mountain scene framed on the right by a portion of a rocky mountain which is cropped on the top, right and bottom by the edge of the work. This portion takes up approximately 1/3 of the work lengthwise, and is purple in colour. Sharing the foreground with this large rock are several (5) evergr…

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Artist: Franz Hans Johnston, R. C. A. (1888 – 1949, Canadian)

Title: Temple Mountain from the Saddle

Date: c. 1926

Medium: painting on paper

Dimensions: 11.5 x 17.0 cm

Description: A mountain scene framed on the right by a portion of a rocky mountain which is cropped on the top, right and bottom by the edge of the work. This portion takes up approximately 1/3 of the work lengthwise, and is purple in colour. Sharing the foreground with this large rock are several (5) evergreens. We only see the tips of these trees although the tree on the left side of the picture reaches almost to the lc. A mountain range painted in blue colours is in the background and, and is cropped on the bottom and left by the picture’s border, and on the right side by the rocky mountain side in the foreground. The small amount of visible sky is yellowish in colour.

Subject: Landscape; Mountains; Canadian Rockies; Temple Mountain

Credit: Purchased from The Collector’s Gallery, Calgary, 1999

Catalogue Number: JoF.07.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.02

Description: General colour: blue. A foreground rock cliff goes up right side from the lower corner. Center mountain face has a jagged ridge. Clouds come down to the peak at the upper right of center, edge. In the lower left corner is a distant mountain. Blue sky with one cloud fills the upper left area. There …

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1929

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 55.0 x 43.5 cm

Description: General colour: blue. A foreground rock cliff goes up right side from the lower corner. Center mountain face has a jagged ridge. Clouds come down to the peak at the upper right of center, edge. In the lower left corner is a distant mountain. Blue sky with one cloud fills the upper left area. There is also a patch of blue in the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountains

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.02

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Molar Pass

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.09

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Rocks in lower left corner sit on a beach which goes along the bottom edge to the right. The water is calm and blue. The far shore slopes up to tall rocky cliffs on the right side. On the left these same cliffs are seen in the distance. The sky is clouded with a bit of …

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Molar Pass

Date: 1929

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 34.2 x 41.8 cm

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Rocks in lower left corner sit on a beach which goes along the bottom edge to the right. The water is calm and blue. The far shore slopes up to tall rocky cliffs on the right side. On the left these same cliffs are seen in the distance. The sky is clouded with a bit of blue at the upper left of center edge.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.09

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Untitled

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1928

Medium: lithograph on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.11.01

Description: General colour: green, blue. Mountain face rises up behind a speeding train - the engine of which fills the cover two thirds of the picture. In the lower right corner a few trees and the other track can be seen. At the lower left side stands one telegraph pole.

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1928

Medium: lithograph on paper

Dimensions: 58.5 x 73.0 cm

Description: General colour: green, blue. Mountain face rises up behind a speeding train - the engine of which fills the cover two thirds of the picture. In the lower right corner a few trees and the other track can be seen. At the lower left side stands one telegraph pole.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; train

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.11.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1925

Medium: lithograph on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.11.02

Description: General colour: blue, yellow, orange. The lower third is a lake - left of center surrounded on all sides by hills of trees, evergreens and bright yellow and orange autumn leaves. From the trees rise slopes of snow to a rock pinnacle at center. The ridge moves off to the right where clouds meet snow…

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1925

Medium: lithograph on paper

Dimensions: 72.5 x 73.8 cm

Description: General colour: blue, yellow, orange. The lower third is a lake - left of center surrounded on all sides by hills of trees, evergreens and bright yellow and orange autumn leaves. From the trees rise slopes of snow to a rock pinnacle at center. The ridge moves off to the right where clouds meet snow. At the left side halfway up in the distance is another peak.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.11.02

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Mt. Biddle

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Artist: Arthur Lismer (1885 – 1969, Canadian)

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: LiA.03.01

Description: This drawing is a stylistically loose portrayal of a mountain scene. This scene is comprised only of mountains and rock - no trees or such other landscape. There is a peak in TLC and the mountain slopes downward to another smaller peak in the TRC. The foreground of the piece is comprised of many…

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Artist: Arthur Lismer (1885 – 1969, Canadian)

Title: Mt. Biddle

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite on paper

Description: This drawing is a stylistically loose portrayal of a mountain scene. This scene is comprised only of mountains and rock - no trees or such other landscape. There is a peak in TLC and the mountain slopes downward to another smaller peak in the TRC. The foreground of the piece is comprised of many loose rocks that are piled on top of one another and recede into the background. The line quality of the drawing in the foreground is much heavier and more detailed than the background. Shading in the piece is done mostly with cross-hatching.