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Burn Below Storm Mountain

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Artist
Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)
Date
1989
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
SmB.05.01
Description
Colours are predominately black, green, white, grey, purple and blue. New-growth evergreens and charred black remnants of trees dominate the painting. Middle third of the painting through the charred trees is Storm Mountain range with mist and cloud obscuring tops of peaks; there is evidence of sno…
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Artist
Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)
Title
Burn Below Storm Mountain
Date
1989
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
29.5 x 34.5 cm
Description
Colours are predominately black, green, white, grey, purple and blue. New-growth evergreens and charred black remnants of trees dominate the painting. Middle third of the painting through the charred trees is Storm Mountain range with mist and cloud obscuring tops of peaks; there is evidence of snow on the mountain range and through the trees on the lower slopes. In the top-third, a stormy sky prevails; several dark clouds with vestiges of blue sky showing. The foreground of new-growth trees are painted in different shades of green, mostly light green, darker green in the background and on the slopes. Dominating the viewer’s left is a tree burned black reaching from top to bottom, charred black trees in the middle half reaching up to the mist, and charred black trees on the right reaching from the new-growth forest floor to the top of painting. Viewer’s eye is drawn into the mountain valley foreground to the wooded uphill of seemingly unburned slopes.
Subject
landscape
mountain
Canadian Rockies
Storm Mountain
Credit
Purchased from Brett Smith, 108 Mile Ranch, 2009
Catalogue Number
SmB.05.01
Images
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Artist
Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)
Date
2009
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
SmB.05.04
Description
A winter scene with dominant colours of white, green, blue, grey, and black. The foreground, which is more than half the painting, is comprised of snow, ice, shadows, two sections of the creek starting from viewer’s left, with one bush and one coniferous tree to viewer’s far middle right. The dark …
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Artist
Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)
Title
Mosquito Creek
Date
2009
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
30.0 x 36.7 cm
Description
A winter scene with dominant colours of white, green, blue, grey, and black. The foreground, which is more than half the painting, is comprised of snow, ice, shadows, two sections of the creek starting from viewer’s left, with one bush and one coniferous tree to viewer’s far middle right. The dark water of the creek is visible from the bush at the right, flows under the ice and snow, and then reappears at the left-hand centre of the painting and flows to the viewer’s left hand corner of the painting. The top-third of the painting is a bank of coniferous trees, sparsely painted on the left, becoming larger and darker towards middle and then lighter on the right as the trees further back rise to the mountain range in the background. Snow and clouds obscure the mountain tops. The sky is light grey and white.
Subject
landscape
water
creek
Canadian Rockies
Mosquito Creek
Credit
Purchased from Brett Smith, 108 Mile Ranch, 2009
Catalogue Number
SmB.05.04
Images
Less detail
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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