Athabasca Glacier, Columbia Icefield
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- Date
- 1963
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WbG.04.87
- Description
- Red wildflowers and black trees in foreground, Athabasca Glacier in distance curving around a solid dark hill on the right-hand side of the image. A prominent snow-covered mountain sits in the middle of the image to the left of the glacier.Title description adhered to the back reads:“ATHABASCA GLAC…
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- Title
- Athabasca Glacier, Columbia Icefield
- Date
- 1963
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.7 x 29.4 cm
- Description
- Red wildflowers and black trees in foreground, Athabasca Glacier in distance curving around a solid dark hill on the right-hand side of the image. A prominent snow-covered mountain sits in the middle of the image to the left of the glacier.Title description adhered to the back reads:“ATHABASCA GLACIER, Columbia IcefieldThis glacier, 66 miles from Jasper on the Jasper-Banff Highway, is nly one of thirty glaciers emanating fromt he 150 square mile Columbia Icefield. This immense mass of ice on the “ROOF OF THE ROCKIES” at 10,000 feet altitude sheds its water into three oceans by way of the Athabasca, North Saskatchewan and Columbia Rivers.”
- Credit
- Gift of Donna Tingley, Edmonton, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- WbG.04.87
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