Power Dam near Calgary
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- Artist
- Doris Cormie
- Date
- 1933
- Medium
- drawing on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CmD.03.02
- Description
- A pastel landscape drawing on brown paper. A large cement dam at left, reaching past the centre dominates the drawing. In the background the sky is a pale blue. The large, grey dam has white water rushing through on the viewer’s right. On the same side of the drawing, extending out of frame, is a …
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- Artist
- Doris Cormie
- Title
- Power Dam near Calgary
- Date
- 1933
- Medium
- drawing on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.5 x 38.5 cm
- Description
- A pastel landscape drawing on brown paper. A large cement dam at left, reaching past the centre dominates the drawing. In the background the sky is a pale blue. The large, grey dam has white water rushing through on the viewer’s right. On the same side of the drawing, extending out of frame, is a large brown rock with yellow and orange highlites. In the foreground is blue water with white highlites. The artist signature is written in the bottom right corner in pencil. Au verso, written in very faint pencil in the top right corner is, “Doris Cormie 23 Aug 1933”.
- Subject
- dam
- architecture
- Doris Cormie
- Credit
- Gift of Barry Hunter Gillis, Richmond, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- CmD.03.02
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