Columbia Icefield, Athabasca Glacier
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- Date
- 1940 – 1945
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.158
- Description
- A large gnarled, dead grey and brown tree with long brances is centre leaning left. Fall vegetation, rust-coloured, is in the immediate foreground, evergeens to the right. The icefield dominates the painting spilling to moraine lower and right, grey-blue flanks to each side and a cloudy white sky.
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- Title
- Columbia Icefield, Athabasca Glacier
- Date
- 1940 – 1945
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- A large gnarled, dead grey and brown tree with long brances is centre leaning left. Fall vegetation, rust-coloured, is in the immediate foreground, evergeens to the right. The icefield dominates the painting spilling to moraine lower and right, grey-blue flanks to each side and a cloudy white sky.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.158
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Ice Blocks, Athabasca Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.159
- Date
- 1941
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.159
- Description
- The canvas is dominated by huge iceblocks in grey, blue, white and brown. Part of the rock wall and Athabasca Glacier show up in the ochre and white peaks, very little sky in mid-and right-hand corner.
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- Title
- Ice Blocks, Athabasca Glacier
- Date
- 1941
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.7 x 35.4 cm
- Description
- The canvas is dominated by huge iceblocks in grey, blue, white and brown. Part of the rock wall and Athabasca Glacier show up in the ochre and white peaks, very little sky in mid-and right-hand corner.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.159
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
Images
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potentially offensive content.
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