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Columbia Icefield, Athabasca Glacier

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1940 – 1945
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.158
Description
A large gnarled, dead grey and brown tree with long brances is centre leaning left. Fall vegetation, rust-coloured, is in the immediate foreground, evergeens to the right. The icefield dominates the painting spilling to moraine lower and right, grey-blue flanks to each side and a cloudy white sky.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Columbia Icefield, Athabasca Glacier
Date
1940 – 1945
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.8 x 35.5 cm
Description
A large gnarled, dead grey and brown tree with long brances is centre leaning left. Fall vegetation, rust-coloured, is in the immediate foreground, evergeens to the right. The icefield dominates the painting spilling to moraine lower and right, grey-blue flanks to each side and a cloudy white sky.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
icefield, Columbia
glacier, Athabasca
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.158
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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