topic:"prairie" found 25 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Airdrie, Alberta

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

Date: 1957

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.24

Description: General colour: blue grey, brown, pink. Two elevators stand at the right side on the horizon. A train chugs past on the left. The foreround is brown fields - a fence appears from the left. The sky fills the upper two thirds and is spotted with clouds.

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

Title: Airdrie, Alberta

Date: 1957

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 27.8 cm

Description: General colour: blue grey, brown, pink. Two elevators stand at the right side on the horizon. A train chugs past on the left. The foreround is brown fields - a fence appears from the left. The sky fills the upper two thirds and is spotted with clouds.

Subject: architecture, rural; landscape, prairie

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.24

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Antelope

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Date: 1926

Medium: etching on paper

Catalogue Number: RuC.04.12

Description: Colour: black on white. Six antelope face right taking up the upper part of the picture. The lower half is bushes with a clear space in the lower right corner.

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Title: Antelope

Date: 1926

Medium: etching on paper

Dimensions: 26.5 x 34.5 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. Six antelope face right taking up the upper part of the picture. The lower half is bushes with a clear space in the lower right corner.

Subject: landscape, prairie; animal, antelope

Credit: Gift of James (Mrs.) Brewster, Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: RuC.04.12

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Antelope

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: ThM.02.02

Description: General colour: green, yellow, brown, blue. An antelope stands at the left side facing right. There is grass and shurbs in the foreground which become part of a slope which fills the lower three quarters. At the horizion mountains can be seen. Sky above is blue.

Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Title: Antelope

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 30.5 x 40.7 cm

Description: General colour: green, yellow, brown, blue. An antelope stands at the left side facing right. There is grass and shurbs in the foreground which become part of a slope which fills the lower three quarters. At the horizion mountains can be seen. Sky above is blue.

Subject: landscape, prairie; animal, antelope

Credit: Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1970

Catalogue Number: ThM.02.02

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Balcony Evening

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Artist: John Harold Thomas Snow (1911 – 2004, Canadian)

Date: 1978

Medium: coloured lithograph on paper

Catalogue Number: SnJ.04.35

Description: A bowl of yellow flowers sits on a yellow table centered foreground. A grey railing runs across entire foreground behind the table. A green field with flowers is seen through the railing. Layers of colours with the green field at ending at centre, are blue, red, yellow and grey sky.

Artist: John Harold Thomas Snow (1911 – 2004, Canadian)

Title: Balcony Evening

Date: 1978

Medium: coloured lithograph on paper

Dimensions: 40.5 x 45.7 cm

Description: A bowl of yellow flowers sits on a yellow table centered foreground. A grey railing runs across entire foreground behind the table. A green field with flowers is seen through the railing. Layers of colours with the green field at ending at centre, are blue, red, yellow and grey sky.

Subject: still life; landscape; prairie

Credit: Gift of John Harold Thomas Snow, Calgary, 1995

Catalogue Number: SnJ.04.35

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Buffalo Hunt

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.06

Description: Two jumping bison, facing left are being chased by an man on a brown horse, he has a bow and arrow ready to shoot at the bison. The horizon runs across page just below centre line. The plain is brown, the sky is blue to the right and white/yellow the left half of picture.

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Artist: John Lefthand Jr.

Title: Buffalo Hunt

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 23.0 x 30.0 cm

Description: Two jumping bison, facing left are being chased by an man on a brown horse, he has a bow and arrow ready to shoot at the bison. The horizon runs across page just below centre line. The plain is brown, the sky is blue to the right and white/yellow the left half of picture.

Subject: landscape, prairie; animal, buffalo, horse; figure, male; hunting; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: LeJ.02.06

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Canada Classic: Mountain Muscle

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1980

Medium: aquatec stain on raw cotton

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.10

Description: Partially painted foothills landscape; bottom two thirds is a series of irregular vertical shapes indicating foothills; left of centre a road cuts through a valley disappearing over the horizon; reds and browns beside distant highway; 2 grey shapes at left of painting; top third is blank excep…

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Canada Classic: Mountain Muscle

Date: 1980

Medium: aquatec stain on raw cotton

Dimensions: 93.9 x 205.7 cm

Description: Partially painted foothills landscape; bottom two thirds is a series of irregular vertical shapes indicating foothills; left of centre a road cuts through a valley disappearing over the horizon; reds and browns beside distant highway; 2 grey shapes at left of painting; top third is blank except for signature and date.

Subject: landscape; prairie

Credit: Purchased from Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, 1990

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.10

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Forced Entry

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1983

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.02

Description: Big sky scene with road through badlands; top 3/4 is sky, very delicately coloured, slight reddish tint at horizon off into yellow and a very slight blue tinge at the top; a brown road with a white stripe down the centre undulates through green topped badlands; blc is white with pencil lines indica…

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Forced Entry

Date: 1983

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 60.4 x 45.5 cm

Description: Big sky scene with road through badlands; top 3/4 is sky, very delicately coloured, slight reddish tint at horizon off into yellow and a very slight blue tinge at the top; a brown road with a white stripe down the centre undulates through green topped badlands; blc is white with pencil lines indicating side of mesa; the picture is outlined with pencil;