Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.234
- Description
- Evening sketch of Cathedral mountain seen from Spiral Tunnels. Cathedral peak is located in the background slightly to the left of the centre of the composition. Shadowed rocks are notated in dark violet, while ochre and pale orange describe sunlit surfaces. The sky is pale blue. Four clouds spread…
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- Title
- Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- Evening sketch of Cathedral mountain seen from Spiral Tunnels. Cathedral peak is located in the background slightly to the left of the centre of the composition. Shadowed rocks are notated in dark violet, while ochre and pale orange describe sunlit surfaces. The sky is pale blue. Four clouds spread out in the upper right corner form a semi-circle. The foreground of hills covered with dark green trees takes up more than half of the composition.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.234
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