topic:" glacier" found 6 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Description: Blue green lake along lower edge. Large brown-grey mountains with strip of trees at lakeshore in background. Glacier at centre left with waterfall. Fluffy clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner. On back “Bow Lake. $25.00. July, 1969. Frank Kaquitts Morley Alberta. Indian nam…

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1969

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 30.5 x 40.5 cm

Description: Blue green lake along lower edge. Large brown-grey mountains with strip of trees at lakeshore in background. Glacier at centre left with waterfall. Fluffy clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner. On back “Bow Lake. $25.00. July, 1969. Frank Kaquitts Morley Alberta. Indian name Sitting Wind.”

Subject: Bow Lake; lake; mountains; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.07

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Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1964

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.06

Description: The general colours are green, blue, grey, brown, mauve, purple and white. The painting is divided in half for dominance. The bottom-half is the icy blue/green and white of the frozen lake; on the viewer’s far right there are two small evergreens in the snow. The top-half comprises the mountains an…

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier

Date: 1964

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 37.2 x 56.0 cm

Description: The general colours are green, blue, grey, brown, mauve, purple and white. The painting is divided in half for dominance. The bottom-half is the icy blue/green and white of the frozen lake; on the viewer’s far right there are two small evergreens in the snow. The top-half comprises the mountains and glacier; viewer’s right the scree slope and upward sweep of a mountain, moving to the left is the next mountain with its white and blue glacier top and blue sweep down the middle of the mountain. Lower mid-centre is the glacier snow field and to the left is a brown and white mountain. The gloomy sky is grey and white swirling clouds with hints of yellow through the grey and blue sky beyond.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Bow Glacier; Bow Lake; Janet Holly Middleton

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.06

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In The Mountains

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.08

Description: Blue lake [Bow Lake?] spanning width of bottom fifth of canvas. Large rocky cliff rising out of lake at left. Lake continues behind this cliff with larger mountains with glacier at far shore. Clouds in blue-green Sky above. “SITTING WIND” at bottom right. On back: “In the Mountains. $25.00. July, 1…

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: In The Mountains

Date: 1969

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 30.5 x 40.4 cm

Description: Blue lake [Bow Lake?] spanning width of bottom fifth of canvas. Large rocky cliff rising out of lake at left. Lake continues behind this cliff with larger mountains with glacier at far shore. Clouds in blue-green Sky above. “SITTING WIND” at bottom right. On back: “In the Mountains. $25.00. July, 1969. Frank Kaquitts Stoney Reserve Morley Alberta. Indian name Sitting Wind.”

Subject: lake, mountains, Bow Lake, glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.08

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[Lake Louise]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: Image of Lake Minnewanka - mountains in background

Date Range: [ca. 1930-1965]

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 3 / PA - 181

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: V683 / III / A / 3 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Various Views of Banff and Area

Sous-Fonds: V683

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V683 / III / A / 3 / PA - 181

GMD: Photograph

Date Range: [ca. 1930-1965]

Physical Description: Photograph: 1 print ; b&w.

Scope & Content: Image of Lake Minnewanka - mountains in background

Subject Access: Mountains; Victoria Glacier

Geographic Access: Lake Louise; Banff National Park

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on item

Processing Status: Processed

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Pilot Mountain

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Artist: Robert M. Dingwall

Date: 1961

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DnR.02.01

Description: In the bottom third of painting is thirteen single trees and a river with islands in it. The purple shadowed mountain rises up from there. A glacier on the left, the main peak left of center and two distant peaks to the right. Skin tone and yellow tinted clouds fill the top third. The signature in …

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Artist: Robert M. Dingwall

Title: Pilot Mountain

Date: 1961

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 54.9 x 70.3 cm

Description: In the bottom third of painting is thirteen single trees and a river with islands in it. The purple shadowed mountain rises up from there. A glacier on the left, the main peak left of center and two distant peaks to the right. Skin tone and yellow tinted clouds fill the top third. The signature in the lower left is signed in orange red.

Subject: landscape; mountain; glacier

Credit: Gift of eisler, Edmonton, 1972

Catalogue Number: DnR.02.01

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Road Constructions

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 62 b&w prints of construction of the Banff-Jasper Highway [the Icefield Parkway], as well as a few shots of the Trans-Canada Highway construction just west of the town of Banff.

Date Range: 1957-1962

Reference Code: V190 / VI / R / ii / b / PA - 01 to PA - 62

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Print

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M323 / S40 / V190

Series: VI : Retained file, R : Alphabetical order

Sous-Fonds: V190

Sub-Series: ii : Roads, b : Construction

Accession Number: 7436

Reference Code: V190 / VI / R / ii / b / PA - 01 to PA - 62

GMD: Photograph; Print

Date Range: 1957-1962

Physical Description: 62 photographs : b&w ; 25.2 x 20.2 cm or smaller

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 62 b&w prints of construction of the Banff-Jasper Highway [the Icefield Parkway], as well as a few shots of the Trans-Canada Highway construction just west of the town of Banff.