Massive, Autumn
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- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas on aluminum
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.256
- Description
- The foreground contains a strip a ground made up of a wash of pink and ochre, with strokes of green, orange-pink and grey upon it. Trees with thin black trunks, and yellow or yellow-green foliage, float on this ground. A mountainside slopes down from the left behind the forest. This mountainside is…
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- Title
- Massive, Autumn
- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas on aluminum
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- The foreground contains a strip a ground made up of a wash of pink and ochre, with strokes of green, orange-pink and grey upon it. Trees with thin black trunks, and yellow or yellow-green foliage, float on this ground. A mountainside slopes down from the left behind the forest. This mountainside is mainly a flat green-blue. A second mountainside slopes down from the right behind this. The second mountainside has more detail, with its upper edge defined in ochre and violet-grey. The background contains two peaks of blue and grey rock. They are connected by two bands of snow, which are divided by exposed rock. The sky is light blue.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.256
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