topic:"architecture" found 11 records - Research Collections

Alberta Harvest

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Artist: George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: 1971

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WbG.04.005

Description: An Alberta harvest scene. In the foreground is an area of wheat that has been cut down in concentric circles. A circular area of wheat has been left standing in the centre of the circles. This field of wheat is a vivid orange and a pale yellow. At the centre-right of the image is a black oil de…

Artist: George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: Alberta Harvest

Date: 1971

Medium: ink on paper

Description: An Alberta harvest scene. In the foreground is an area of wheat that has been cut down in concentric circles. A circular area of wheat has been left standing in the centre of the circles. This field of wheat is a vivid orange and a pale yellow. At the centre-right of the image is a black oil derrick. To the left of the derrick and further in the distance are several grain elevators, of which a few are bright red. In the distance are the Rocky Mountains. A soft grey-blue sky makes up the top portion of the print.

Subject: landscape; prairies; Canadian Rockies; architecture; rural; grain elevators; activity; farming; oil well

Credit: Gift of George Weber, 1973

Catalogue Number: WbG.04.005

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Elevators, Radway, Alberta

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Artist: George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: 1972

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WbG.04.012

Description: Red and white grain elevators are at the centre of the print. They bear the logos of “Alberta Pacific” and “United Grain Growers.” Four are larger and in the foreground. Another one is visible further away. Smaller outbuildings and telephone poles surround the grain elevators. The sky is a cle…

Artist: George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: Elevators, Radway, Alberta

Date: 1972

Medium: ink on paper

Description: Red and white grain elevators are at the centre of the print. They bear the logos of “Alberta Pacific” and “United Grain Growers.” Four are larger and in the foreground. Another one is visible further away. Smaller outbuildings and telephone poles surround the grain elevators. The sky is a clear blue that fades to white on the horizon. Thin streaky clouds stretch across the print. The foreground is green, white and dark brown. It looks like it has been plowed in roughly even rows.

Subject: architecture; rural; grain elevators; landscape; prairies

Credit: Gift of George Weber, 1973

Catalogue Number: WbG.04.012

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Fort St. James

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1973

Medium: oil on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.069

Description: Two buildings in grassy area.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Fort St. James

Date: 1973

Medium: oil on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 30.3 cm

Description: Two buildings in grassy area.

Subject: architecture; rural; Fort St. James

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.069

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Indian Smoke Houses, Hagwelget Canyon, B.C.

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Artist: George Douglas Pepper (1903 – 1962, Canadian)

Date: c. 1928

Medium: oil on wood panel

Catalogue Number: PeG.01.01

Description: Colour: brown, green. A green slope in the foreground goes down to three buildings center. Five totems run behind to the right, where there is another building. The green lake fills in behind, trees in the upper left and beach along the left side and rock cliffs in the upper right.

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Artist: George Douglas Pepper (1903 – 1962, Canadian)

Title: Indian Smoke Houses, Hagwelget Canyon, B.C.

Date: c. 1928

Medium: oil on wood panel

Dimensions: 30.5 x 35.6 cm

Description: Colour: brown, green. A green slope in the foreground goes down to three buildings center. Five totems run behind to the right, where there is another building. The green lake fills in behind, trees in the upper left and beach along the left side and rock cliffs in the upper right.

Subject: architecture; rural; Indigenous

Credit: Purchased from Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper, 1969

Catalogue Number: PeG.01.01

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Indian Smoke Houses, Hagwelget Canyon, B.C.

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Artist: George Douglas Pepper (1903 – 1962, Canadian)

Date: c. 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: PeG.02.01

Description: Colour: green. Looking down on wooden buildings. The two in the lower left are up on four posts, one at each corner. The two buildings in the lower center have broken roofs. Behind them stand a row of tall totems which go along the waters edge. On the right side, parts of 2 more buildings can be se…

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Artist: George Douglas Pepper (1903 – 1962, Canadian)

Title: Indian Smoke Houses, Hagwelget Canyon, B.C.

Date: c. 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 79.7 x 84.8 cm

Description: Colour: green. Looking down on wooden buildings. The two in the lower left are up on four posts, one at each corner. The two buildings in the lower center have broken roofs. Behind them stand a row of tall totems which go along the waters edge. On the right side, parts of 2 more buildings can be seen. The rocky cliffs rise out of the water on the right side. In the background in the upper left are trees and hills on the far shore.

Subject: architecture; rural; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper, 1968

Catalogue Number: PeG.02.01

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Indian Village, Hagwilget

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1973

Medium: oil on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.203

Description: A banked road in the foreground leads up to a small village. The town consists of a white church, yellow school house and several other smaller houses ranging in colour from red and green. The steeple of the church rises far above the roof line of the other houses at the back of the community. It …

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Indian Village, Hagwilget

Date: 1973

Medium: oil on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 30.3 cm

Description: A banked road in the foreground leads up to a small village. The town consists of a white church, yellow school house and several other smaller houses ranging in colour from red and green. The steeple of the church rises far above the roof line of the other houses at the back of the community. It is surrounded by trees with green grass in front. The mountains lie off in the distance to the right against a blue sky.

Subject: landscape; architecture; rural

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.203

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Jim White's House in Nash's Creek N.B.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.153

Description: Colour: blue, brown, yellow green. The upper two thirds is blue water, blue far shore and blue sky. The lower third is grass, shrubs and bushes. A blue roofed buildng sits in the lower right corner partly hidden by a foreground hillside.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Jim White's House in Nash's Creek N.B.

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27 x 21.9 cm

Description: Colour: blue, brown, yellow green. The upper two thirds is blue water, blue far shore and blue sky. The lower third is grass, shrubs and bushes. A blue roofed buildng sits in the lower right corner partly hidden by a foreground hillside.

Subject: landscape; hills; creek, architecture; rural

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.153

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A Mexican Yard

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Artist: Nicolai Fechin (1881 – 1955, American)

Date: c. 1927

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: FeN.02.01

Description: Two children play in a courtyard, buildings surround them except for foreground. Two horses are standing outside a building at right centre.

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Artist: Nicolai Fechin (1881 – 1955, American)

Title: A Mexican Yard

Date: c. 1927

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.0 x 90.2 cm

Description: Two children play in a courtyard, buildings surround them except for foreground. Two horses are standing outside a building at right centre.