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Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmij.05.06
- 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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- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.05.06
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Bow Lake and Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwbg.04.009
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WbG.04.009
- Description
- At the bottom of the print is the brown and tan shore of Bow Lake. Four brownish trees are at the centre of this shore area. Bow lake is turquoise green and takes up the centre portion of the print. It appears as if the shore is at a slightly higher elevation than the lake. At the centre right …
- Title
- Bow Lake and Glacier
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Description
- At the bottom of the print is the brown and tan shore of Bow Lake. Four brownish trees are at the centre of this shore area. Bow lake is turquoise green and takes up the centre portion of the print. It appears as if the shore is at a slightly higher elevation than the lake. At the centre right of the print, Bow Glacier is visible. Brown and white mountains extend upwards from the lake across the centre of the print. The sky is pale blue and clear with two narrow streaky clouds, one above the other, extending across the print.
- Credit
- Gift of George Weber, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- WbG.04.009
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Bow Lake Crowfoot Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmij.04.35
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.04.35
- Description
- A silkscreened folded card with a view of Bow Lake, mostly obscured by the vegetation in front of the lake, and the Crowfoot Glacier behind. The general colours are blue, grey, green, rust/orange and white. The image is dominated by the rust and green-coloured vegetation in front of the lake and th…
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- Title
- Bow Lake Crowfoot Glacier
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 11.1 x 14.1 cm
- Description
- A silkscreened folded card with a view of Bow Lake, mostly obscured by the vegetation in front of the lake, and the Crowfoot Glacier behind. The general colours are blue, grey, green, rust/orange and white. The image is dominated by the rust and green-coloured vegetation in front of the lake and the mountains and glacier behind. Beyond the vegetation is the blue/green and grey lake. The top two-thirds comprises the mountains and glacier; viewer’s right the green/grey scree slope and upward sweep of a mountain, moving to the left is the next mountain with its white and blue/grey glacier top and its grey/blue shadowed side on the left. Lower mid-centre is the glacier snow field and to the left is a grey/blue hill. The sky above is flat and grey.
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.04.35
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