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Boojum cactus / desert scene
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactarp.05.07
- Date
- 1981
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ArP.05.07
- Description
- Multi-coloured cone shaped, spiked trees and cacti on and against grey rocks covers most of the left and centre top with smaller ones on mauve rocks to the right. In the centre are two mythological bird creatures perched on rocks.
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- Title
- Boojum cactus / desert scene
- Date
- 1981
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 56.0 x 76.5 cm
- Description
- Multi-coloured cone shaped, spiked trees and cacti on and against grey rocks covers most of the left and centre top with smaller ones on mauve rocks to the right. In the centre are two mythological bird creatures perched on rocks.
- Subject
- botanical
- Boojum cactus
- Pat Askren
- Credit
- Gift of Jon Whyte, Banff, 1992
- Catalogue Number
- ArP.05.07
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Bow River Valley
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcrd.02.02
- Date
- 1981
- Medium
- painting on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- CrD.02.02
- Description
- A landscape oil painting. In the background is a blue sky with big fluffy white clouds and a mountain range with rolling hills in front. After the hills is a line of forest and in the foreground are two small ponds separated by a thin strip of land with tall grass and the ponds are surrounded by a …
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- Title
- Bow River Valley
- Date
- 1981
- Medium
- painting on canvas
- Dimensions
- 46.0 x 61.0 cm
- Description
- A landscape oil painting. In the background is a blue sky with big fluffy white clouds and a mountain range with rolling hills in front. After the hills is a line of forest and in the foreground are two small ponds separated by a thin strip of land with tall grass and the ponds are surrounded by a lone, green pine tree on the left and three golden-leaved poplar trees on the right. The artist signature is painted in the bottom rhc in red, “DUNCAN /81”. Au verso, on the top edge of the canvas in black pen is written, “EARLY AUTUMN, MORLEY, ALBERTA”. On the top left corner of the canvas is written, “2500.00”. In the centre at the bottom of the frame is a white label with blue ink, “Gainsborough Galleries (1974) Ltd. FINE ART DEALERS & FRAME MAKERS 805 611-8th AVENUE S.W. CALGARY - ALBERTA T2P 1H1 “EARLY AUTUMN, MORLEY, ALBERTA” An Original Oil Painting By DUNCAN CROCKFORD XD/167”.
- Subject
- landscape
- lake
- Duncan Crockford
- Credit
- Gift of William Randall (Estate), Halifax, 2011
- Catalogue Number
- CrD.02.02
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Lake Louise, Evening
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactfet.07.01
- Date
- 1982
- Medium
- gouache on paper
- Catalogue Number
- FeT.07.01
- Description
- Green foreground and blue lake across bottom two thirds of picture; sides of two dark green mountains meet off centre with white glacier and clouds in chasm,a little blue sky shows through.
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- Title
- Lake Louise, Evening
- Date
- 1982
- Medium
- gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 13.8 x 27.7 cm
- Description
- Green foreground and blue lake across bottom two thirds of picture; sides of two dark green mountains meet off centre with white glacier and clouds in chasm,a little blue sky shows through.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- Credit
- Purchased from Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, 1982
- Catalogue Number
- FeT.07.01
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- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BwA.05.04
- Description
- Two crocus flowers with stems and leaves, and some grass and stems on a black background. The crocus in the foreground is drooping to the viewer’s left; the open/inside part of the petals are lilac, the underside/outside are purple and the centres yellow and gold. The crocus on top is turned away f…
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- Title
- Purple Crocus
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.0 x 23.5 cm
- Description
- Two crocus flowers with stems and leaves, and some grass and stems on a black background. The crocus in the foreground is drooping to the viewer’s left; the open/inside part of the petals are lilac, the underside/outside are purple and the centres yellow and gold. The crocus on top is turned away from the viewer showing mostly the outside of the petals and some yellow inside. The crocus stems and feathery leaves are green and brown. The other grasses and stems are rust, yellow and brown.
- Credit
- Purchased from mid, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- BwA.05.04
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- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BwA.05.05
- Description
- General colours orange, green, yellow, brown, grey and white on a black background. A single wood lily with stem and leaves and other stems/grass. The single flower head is centred but leaning toward the viewer’s left. The petals are light and dark orange, dots of brown as they turn yellow towards …
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- Title
- Wood Lily
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Description
- General colours orange, green, yellow, brown, grey and white on a black background. A single wood lily with stem and leaves and other stems/grass. The single flower head is centred but leaning toward the viewer’s left. The petals are light and dark orange, dots of brown as they turn yellow towards the base. The petals narrow on the ends and at the base giving a see-through aspect; the black background is visible through the base of the flower head. The stamens are brown and grey and the stems is two shades of green. The narrow, long leaves are light green with darker green running through. There are other stems or grasses of white and green.
- Credit
- Purchased from mid, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- BwA.05.05
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