The Water Front at Alert Bay, B.C.
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- Date
- prior to 1963
- Medium
- coloured woodcut on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.04.51
- Description
- One of a seven part portfolio The Canadian Scene assembled in 1928, portfolio #273. Wooden rooftop in centre foreground, other wooden buildings and pier on waterfront, the buildings are brown and grey. A tree covered mountain is across the bay, the bay is light coloured with blue and greenish stre…
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- Title
- The Water Front at Alert Bay, B.C.
- Date
- prior to 1963
- Medium
- coloured woodcut on paper
- Dimensions
- 16.5 x 22.5 cm
- Description
- One of a seven part portfolio The Canadian Scene assembled in 1928, portfolio #273. Wooden rooftop in centre foreground, other wooden buildings and pier on waterfront, the buildings are brown and grey. A tree covered mountain is across the bay, the bay is light coloured with blue and greenish streaks, the shadows of the building and pier and blue/green. The sky is light grey with dark blue clouds to the right top of picture. Printed on Goyu paper from six cherry-wood blocks.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- lake
- architecture, urban
- Credit
- Gift of Dr. Glen Edwards, Calgary, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.04.51
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