Mount Bowlen, Valley of the Ten Peaks
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- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.263
- Description
- The foreground contains a rolling hill with a jumble of brown and violet-grey rocks. On the left-hand side, five thin evergreen trees are tersely described. Two blue peaks compose the background. The left peak is the larger of the two, and is separated from the right peak by a glacier. At the summi…
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- Title
- Mount Bowlen, Valley of the Ten Peaks
- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 30.3 cm
- Description
- The foreground contains a rolling hill with a jumble of brown and violet-grey rocks. On the left-hand side, five thin evergreen trees are tersely described. Two blue peaks compose the background. The left peak is the larger of the two, and is separated from the right peak by a glacier. At the summit of the left mountain is another glacier. The slope of this glacier extends into the blue sky through the form of a single cloud found behind the summit.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.263
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