topic:"British Columbia" found 80 records - Research Collections

Beach Combers, Burrard Inlet, B.C.

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.38

Description: A coastal seascape of Burrard Inlet, BC, shows a floating house or shack in the centre right of the image. It has a railing running around it and a covered porch. A walkway runs from the shore at the bottom of the image to the shack. Part of another shack is cropped at the left of the image. L…

Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Beach Combers, Burrard Inlet, B.C.

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: A coastal seascape of Burrard Inlet, BC, shows a floating house or shack in the centre right of the image. It has a railing running around it and a covered porch. A walkway runs from the shore at the bottom of the image to the shack. Part of another shack is cropped at the left of the image. Logs are floating around these buildings. Beyond the buildings is Burrard Inlet on which there are two or three boats. A dock runs out the boats in the upper left corner. Beyond, at the top of the image are Coast mountains, some covered in snow.

Subject: landscape; coastal; seascape; Pacific; British Columbia; Burrard Inlet, mountains, Coast

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 2001

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.38

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Moyie, B.C.

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: serigraph on paper

Catalogue Number: BwA.04.02

Description: General colours: blue with green. One third up is water. Then green shore with a building left and right of water. Up further in the center is a white church with a blue roof. Tree behind and hills and mountains beyond. There is sky in upper left corner.

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Moyie, B.C.

Date: n.d.

Medium: serigraph on paper

Dimensions: 17.6 x 25 cm

Description: General colours: blue with green. One third up is water. Then green shore with a building left and right of water. Up further in the center is a white church with a blue roof. Tree behind and hills and mountains beyond. There is sky in upper left corner.

Subject: landscape; water; mountains; British Columbia; architecture; church

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: BwA.04.02

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The Fraser River at Yale BC

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Artist: Charles Jones Way (1835 – 1919, British)

Date: c. 1900

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WaC.05.01

Description: River winding through rocky mountains. River is calm in foreground and rougher in background. 4 figures on beach with two canoes at center right. Another figure with white pack horse on rocky outcrop above. Mountains primarily brown and grey with one snowcapped peak in distance. Trees and other shr…

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Artist: Charles Jones Way (1835 – 1919, British)

Title: The Fraser River at Yale BC

Date: c. 1900

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 52.0 x 75.5 cm

Description: River winding through rocky mountains. River is calm in foreground and rougher in background. 4 figures on beach with two canoes at center right. Another figure with white pack horse on rocky outcrop above. Mountains primarily brown and grey with one snowcapped peak in distance. Trees and other shrubbery on rocky outcrop at right and on slopes at left and center distance. “CJ (overlapping) Way YALE BC” in red at lower right. In ornately carved gold painted wood frame with glass. White tag from Masters Gallery Ltd. on back.

Subject: mountains; Fraser River; British Columbia; landscape; canoeing; horses

Credit: Gift of Robyn L Fulton, 2021

Catalogue Number: WaC.05.01

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The Okanagan Valley

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Artist: Cyril Harris ( – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1941

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: HaC.05.03

Description: Countryside scene, green farm fields and orchards in foreground, trees and buildings in mid-distance, hills in background. One large tree in foreground at left, another on on the right.

Artist: Cyril Harris ( – 1966, Canadian)

Title: The Okanagan Valley

Date: 1941

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: Countryside scene, green farm fields and orchards in foreground, trees and buildings in mid-distance, hills in background. One large tree in foreground at left, another on on the right.