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Celebration in Remembrance
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.05.22
- Date
- 1927
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.22
- Description
- Scene of a boat blue/rusting in colour with waves exploding up around its sides reaching twice the height of the boat in the air - the sky is a pale grey colour.“Collings used cold colours in this starkly observed drama. The air is filled with pale puffs of explosives while white jets of water burs…
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- Title
- Celebration in Remembrance
- Date
- 1927
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 22 x 15.5 cm
- Description
- Scene of a boat blue/rusting in colour with waves exploding up around its sides reaching twice the height of the boat in the air - the sky is a pale grey colour.“Collings used cold colours in this starkly observed drama. The air is filled with pale puffs of explosives while white jets of water burst from what appears to be a fire boat.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- boat
- explosives
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.22
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Foothills of the Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.05.01
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.01
- Description
- Landscape, colourful rolling foothills in the forground. - in the immediate forground at the bl. is a spot of green brown grasses. - past that is a varying green plateau. - then a spot of trees onward to the purple/blue mountains in the distance. - the sky fades into a yellow to green shade.“Collin…
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- Title
- Foothills of the Rockies
- Date
- 1925
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.3 x 37 cm
- Description
- Landscape, colourful rolling foothills in the forground. - in the immediate forground at the bl. is a spot of green brown grasses. - past that is a varying green plateau. - then a spot of trees onward to the purple/blue mountains in the distance. - the sky fades into a yellow to green shade.“Collings typically restricted his darkest tones in this late watercolour to minimal accents -- a streak of rich sienna merging with deep blue which works as a ‘base line’ and his the key to colour relationships in the rest of his picture. The overall pastel tones and broad, open river valley view combine to produce an effect of silent and awesome beauty.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.01
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- Date
- c. 1927
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.19
- Description
- Scene of five sailboats at varying distance away sailing on a brisk sea of blue/green water, the sky has a shade of darkening blue/grey.“This view of sailboats, apparently racing, is related in mood and handing to Catalogue entry #187. [Celebration in Remembrance CoJ.05.22] Collings used cold tones…
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- Title
- Heavy Seas
- Date
- c. 1927
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 15 x 31 cm
- Description
- Scene of five sailboats at varying distance away sailing on a brisk sea of blue/green water, the sky has a shade of darkening blue/grey.“This view of sailboats, apparently racing, is related in mood and handing to Catalogue entry #187. [Celebration in Remembrance CoJ.05.22] Collings used cold tones in both and rushing water to create a sense of drama.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.19
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- Date
- 1923
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.49
- Description
- Watercolour in blues, yellow, red and brown high horizon line sharp edges in blue, yellow sombre sky, large mass of red-brown blending into aqua-blue on lower half of painting, as if to suggest water.
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- Title
- Landscape
- Date
- 1923
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 10.5 x 15.5 cm
- Description
- Watercolour in blues, yellow, red and brown high horizon line sharp edges in blue, yellow sombre sky, large mass of red-brown blending into aqua-blue on lower half of painting, as if to suggest water.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.49
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Maple Creek, Border of Alberta
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.05.43
- Date
- c. 1875
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.43
- Description
- Scene of grassy field leading to the distance with the red roof of some houses seen.“This very yellow landscape appears to have been an early experiment, lacking Collings’ finesse and resulting in ‘rubbed’ paper in the left portion of the sky.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Rai…
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- Title
- Maple Creek, Border of Alberta
- Date
- c. 1875
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 13.5 x 19 cm
- Description
- Scene of grassy field leading to the distance with the red roof of some houses seen.“This very yellow landscape appears to have been an early experiment, lacking Collings’ finesse and resulting in ‘rubbed’ paper in the left portion of the sky.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.43
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- Date
- c. 1880
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.02
- Description
- Scene of houses and dwellings, grey brown with brown roof. - pale blue sky, with a pale brown/yellow sun in the center.“The houses in this (probably English) town extend onto a stone bridge but there is some confusion in architectural structure and progression. A rather static figure, centre left, …
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- Title
- Old Town
- Date
- c. 1880
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 16.5 x 18.5 cm
- Description
- Scene of houses and dwellings, grey brown with brown roof. - pale blue sky, with a pale brown/yellow sun in the center.“The houses in this (probably English) town extend onto a stone bridge but there is some confusion in architectural structure and progression. A rather static figure, centre left, is further evidence of an early date for this painting.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.02
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On the Columbia between Revelstoke and Arrow Lakes
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.106
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on oil paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.106
- Description
- Scene with a lake in the forground center moving back over sloping forests to the mountain in the background.“It is not surprising that this soft, moody sketch shows some wear as Collings seems to have been travelling by canoe. The artist would have been well into his seventies on this trip.” -- …
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- Title
- On the Columbia between Revelstoke and Arrow Lakes
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on oil paper
- Dimensions
- 26 x 20 cm
- Description
- Scene with a lake in the forground center moving back over sloping forests to the mountain in the background.“It is not surprising that this soft, moody sketch shows some wear as Collings seems to have been travelling by canoe. The artist would have been well into his seventies on this trip.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.106
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- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.112
- Description
- Scene of a river with swiftly moveing water and with trees to its rear bank.“Collings focused increasingly on the centre of his pictures in his late work, leaving the edges ‘open’ as in this example.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
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- Title
- Pine Portage
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.5 x 27.5 cm
- Description
- Scene of a river with swiftly moveing water and with trees to its rear bank.“Collings focused increasingly on the centre of his pictures in his late work, leaving the edges ‘open’ as in this example.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.112
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Prince Rupert Mid Day
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.044
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.044
- Description
- Scene of buildings situated on top of a hill, with some more below these upon appendage-like stilts. - there is one building in the immediate forground right.“A full range of tones evenly dapple this sketch moving the viewer’s eye easily about it. Collings sketched the town from the base of a hall …
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- Title
- Prince Rupert Mid Day
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.5 x 26 cm
- Description
- Scene of buildings situated on top of a hill, with some more below these upon appendage-like stilts. - there is one building in the immediate forground right.“A full range of tones evenly dapple this sketch moving the viewer’s eye easily about it. Collings sketched the town from the base of a hall looking up; the result is fresh and spontaneous but clearly exhibits Collings’ superb control and concise line at this late stage of his career.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.044
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Seymour Arm from Plateau
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.224
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.224
- Description
- Three trees set in foreground right, to left of is a valley with winding path/water. Hills in distance set in centre.“This is a fine example of Collings’ late work. Sweeping curvilinear lines imbue it with a poetic serenity, while the upright lines of a tree on the extreme right serve to stabilize …
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- Title
- Seymour Arm from Plateau
- Date
- c. 1925
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20 x 25.5 cm
- Description
- Three trees set in foreground right, to left of is a valley with winding path/water. Hills in distance set in centre.“This is a fine example of Collings’ late work. Sweeping curvilinear lines imbue it with a poetic serenity, while the upright lines of a tree on the extreme right serve to stabilize the whole. The artist increasingly restricted his darkest tones in his mature work, opening up his pictures and enhancing the impression of vastness so characteristic of his Rocky Mountain scenes.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.224
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