Celebration in Remembrance
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.05.22
- Date
- 1927
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.22
- Description
- Scene of a boat blue/rusting in colour with waves exploding up around its sides reaching twice the height of the boat in the air - the sky is a pale grey colour.“Collings used cold colours in this starkly observed drama. The air is filled with pale puffs of explosives while white jets of water burs…
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- Title
- Celebration in Remembrance
- Date
- 1927
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 22 x 15.5 cm
- Description
- Scene of a boat blue/rusting in colour with waves exploding up around its sides reaching twice the height of the boat in the air - the sky is a pale grey colour.“Collings used cold colours in this starkly observed drama. The air is filled with pale puffs of explosives while white jets of water burst from what appears to be a fire boat.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- boat
- explosives
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.22
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Stumping Powder Box
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact110.01.1067
- Date
- n.d.
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.1067
- Description
- A box made of wood with fitted joints on the corners with a bottom that has three slats of wood nailed on. On each short side of the box (no lid) in black lettering “50 LBS.”, in the middle “POLAR STUMPING POWDER” followed by “6 = 19 = 55”; below in red lettering “20% STRENGTH, two ovals with “C-I…
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- Title
- Stumping Powder Box
- Date
- n.d.
- Description
- A box made of wood with fitted joints on the corners with a bottom that has three slats of wood nailed on. On each short side of the box (no lid) in black lettering “50 LBS.”, in the middle “POLAR STUMPING POWDER” followed by “6 = 19 = 55”; below in red lettering “20% STRENGTH, two ovals with “C-I-L” followed by “1 1/4 x 8”. On one of the longer sides in black lettering “MADE IN CANADA BY CANADIAN INDUSTRIES (1954) LIMITED FACTORIES AT JAMES ISLAND, B.C. BELOEIL, P.Q. BRAINERD, MAN. NOBEL ONTARIO, CALGARY ALTA. and on the other side printed in black lettering “HIGH EXPLOSIVES -- DANGEROUS CLASS III - DIVISION 1” and “B.T.C. 14 surrounded in a black rectangle.
- Subject
- explosives
- Stan Peyto
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Peyto, Shawnigan Lake, 1967
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.1067
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