topic:"landscape" found 15 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Alberta Harvest

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Artist: George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: 1971

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WbG.04.005

Description: An Alberta harvest scene. In the foreground is an area of wheat that has been cut down in concentric circles. A circular area of wheat has been left standing in the centre of the circles. This field of wheat is a vivid orange and a pale yellow. At the centre-right of the image is a black oil de…

Artist: George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: Alberta Harvest

Date: 1971

Medium: ink on paper

Description: An Alberta harvest scene. In the foreground is an area of wheat that has been cut down in concentric circles. A circular area of wheat has been left standing in the centre of the circles. This field of wheat is a vivid orange and a pale yellow. At the centre-right of the image is a black oil derrick. To the left of the derrick and further in the distance are several grain elevators, of which a few are bright red. In the distance are the Rocky Mountains. A soft grey-blue sky makes up the top portion of the print.

Subject: landscape; prairies; Canadian Rockies; architecture; rural; grain elevators; activity; farming; oil well

Credit: Gift of George Weber, 1973

Catalogue Number: WbG.04.005

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Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928

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Artist: Richard Jack (1866 – 1952, Canadian)

Date: c. 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: JkR.02.03

Description: A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of …

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Artist: Richard Jack (1866 – 1952, Canadian)

Title: Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928

Date: c. 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.5 x 60.3 cm

Description: A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of an open space where the men in kilts are standing. Mount Rundle rises up behind the Hotel. A flagpole, trees and coloured tents are dispersed through the crowd in the middle of the painting.

Subject: architecture; Banff Springs Hotel; landscape; Canadian Rockies; activity; Highland Gathering

Credit: Gift of Joan Fitt, Calgary, 2001

Catalogue Number: JkR.02.03

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Cabin at Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Marion Boyd Allen (1862 – 1941, American)

Date: 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: AbM.02.01

Description: General colours: brown, green, purple and red. Central image is a log cabin coming out from left side. The front door is framed on either side by colourful hanging clothes and Aivo chairs, one on each side. In the background to the right is another cabin. Behind and above are trees, a patch of grey…

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Artist: Marion Boyd Allen (1862 – 1941, American)

Title: Cabin at Lake O'Hara

Date: 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20.2 x 25.6 cm

Description: General colours: brown, green, purple and red. Central image is a log cabin coming out from left side. The front door is framed on either side by colourful hanging clothes and Aivo chairs, one on each side. In the background to the right is another cabin. Behind and above are trees, a patch of grey sky in the upper right corner and a purple mountain face in the upper left.The painting was originally given by the artist, to Syd Graves (who managed Lake O’Hara for many years). It was then given to Bill Brewster, who gave it to Rita Crick, who gave it to the Peter Whyte Gallery.

Subject: architecture; cabin; landscape; Canadian Rockies; Lake O'Hara area

Credit: Gift of Rita Crick, 1978

Catalogue Number: AbM.02.01

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Canmore, Alberta, July, 1970

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Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.02

Description: Colour: black on white. Across the bottom are roof tops and chimneys. Behind,filling the upper three quarters is a mountain - peak in the center - stay on both sides.

Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Title: Canmore, Alberta, July, 1970

Date: 1970

Medium: ink on paper

Description: Colour: black on white. Across the bottom are roof tops and chimneys. Behind,filling the upper three quarters is a mountain - peak in the center - stay on both sides.

Subject: landscape; mountain; architecture

Credit: Gift of James McLaren Nicoll, 1976

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.02

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Elevators, Radway, Alberta

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Artist: George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: 1972

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WbG.04.012

Description: Red and white grain elevators are at the centre of the print. They bear the logos of “Alberta Pacific” and “United Grain Growers.” Four are larger and in the foreground. Another one is visible further away. Smaller outbuildings and telephone poles surround the grain elevators. The sky is a cle…

Artist: George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: Elevators, Radway, Alberta

Date: 1972

Medium: ink on paper

Description: Red and white grain elevators are at the centre of the print. They bear the logos of “Alberta Pacific” and “United Grain Growers.” Four are larger and in the foreground. Another one is visible further away. Smaller outbuildings and telephone poles surround the grain elevators. The sky is a clear blue that fades to white on the horizon. Thin streaky clouds stretch across the print. The foreground is green, white and dark brown. It looks like it has been plowed in roughly even rows.

Subject: architecture; rural; grain elevators; landscape; prairies

Credit: Gift of George Weber, 1973

Catalogue Number: WbG.04.012

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The Fenway in Boston

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1927 – 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.140

Description: Colour: green, pale blue. The lower two thirds is a stream and grass. The upper third is a bank of trees and the top of a brick tower which is left of center. Sky is pale along the top edge.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: The Fenway in Boston

Date: 1927 – 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 9 x 11 cm

Description: Colour: green, pale blue. The lower two thirds is a stream and grass. The upper third is a bank of trees and the top of a brick tower which is left of center. Sky is pale along the top edge.

Subject: landscape; river; urban; architecture

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.140

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Indian Village, Hagwilget

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1973

Medium: oil on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.203

Description: A banked road in the foreground leads up to a small village. The town consists of a white church, yellow school house and several other smaller houses ranging in colour from red and green. The steeple of the church rises far above the roof line of the other houses at the back of the community. It …

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Indian Village, Hagwilget

Date: 1973

Medium: oil on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 30.3 cm

Description: A banked road in the foreground leads up to a small village. The town consists of a white church, yellow school house and several other smaller houses ranging in colour from red and green. The steeple of the church rises far above the roof line of the other houses at the back of the community. It is surrounded by trees with green grass in front. The mountains lie off in the distance to the right against a blue sky.