Crowfoot Glacier
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- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.139
- Description
- Green slopes undulate in the foreground down to the lake of the glacier. Trees dot either side of the slopes, diminishing in size around the baby blue coloured lake. The slopes of Crowfoot Glacier rise high above the lake below. The mountain range in colour from purple to green and yellow-ochre. An…
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- Title
- Crowfoot Glacier
- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28.0 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- Green slopes undulate in the foreground down to the lake of the glacier. Trees dot either side of the slopes, diminishing in size around the baby blue coloured lake. The slopes of Crowfoot Glacier rise high above the lake below. The mountain range in colour from purple to green and yellow-ochre. An ominous grey cloud cover broods over the mountain peaks.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.139
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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