topic:" glacier" found 19 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1943

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.02

Description: Colour: blue, green. The land across the lower quarter is very coloured. One evergreen stands on the waters edge left of center. A little stream of water comes into the lake from the lower right. The far shore rises half way up to mountains and glacier. Blue sky goes across the top.

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake

Date: 1943

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 24.4 x 34.6 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green. The land across the lower quarter is very coloured. One evergreen stands on the waters edge left of center. A little stream of water comes into the lake from the lower right. The far shore rises half way up to mountains and glacier. Blue sky goes across the top.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier; lake

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.02

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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.103

Description: Colour: blue greys. The central image is a mass of blue grey ice which takes up the middle two quarters. The upper and lower quarters being white patches of snow on a brown grey ground.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: blue greys. The central image is a mass of blue grey ice which takes up the middle two quarters. The upper and lower quarters being white patches of snow on a brown grey ground.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake; ice; snow; glacier

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.103

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Lake Louise

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.117

Description: Colour: Warm blues, black, grey. A lake crosses the lower edge. Two black strips of trees go up each side from the center at the bottom of the glacier. Behind the glacier is a rock fall leading to a snow ridge and to the left a rock peak. The sky is the same colour as the snow-grey.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake Louise

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: Warm blues, black, grey. A lake crosses the lower edge. Two black strips of trees go up each side from the center at the bottom of the glacier. Behind the glacier is a rock fall leading to a snow ridge and to the left a rock peak. The sky is the same colour as the snow-grey.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake; glacier

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.117

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.089

Description: Colour: blue, green. Central image is a fan shaped glacier emptying into a pool of warm blue water surrounded by green grass along the bottom and a third the way up. Beyond the glacier to the left is rock mountain side which goes off the left side. In the upper right corner is sky which meets dista…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green. Central image is a fan shaped glacier emptying into a pool of warm blue water surrounded by green grass along the bottom and a third the way up. Beyond the glacier to the left is rock mountain side which goes off the left side. In the upper right corner is sky which meets distant slopes.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; glacier

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.089

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Toe of Athabasca Glacier, Columbia Icefield

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

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.286

Description: View of the edge of a glacier. In the foreground (the lower third of the picture) are areas of grey interlocking with areas of light grey-yellow green. In the background is a rounded rise of ice with its surface coloured pale yellow and white, and crevasses of light-blue, grey-green and green-blue …

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

Title: Toe of Athabasca Glacier, Columbia Icefield

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas on masonite

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: View of the edge of a glacier. In the foreground (the lower third of the picture) are areas of grey interlocking with areas of light grey-yellow green. In the background is a rounded rise of ice with its surface coloured pale yellow and white, and crevasses of light-blue, grey-green and green-blue (with some outlines of dark blue). The bottom edge of the glacier is a cliff of ice, which extends from the righthand side of the picture and almost reaches the lefthand side. At the top of the sketch, a strip of blue sky is found on the left and an area of brown wash is on the right.