- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.271
- Description
- View of Lake McArthur, looking east. (There is less applied paint than on the majority of Catharine Whyte's oil sketches.) In the lower right corner is the edge of a cliff of rock. The middleground contains the large bright blue surface of the lake. Half the lake's surface has long horizontal strok…
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- Title
- Lake McArthur
- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28.0 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- View of Lake McArthur, looking east. (There is less applied paint than on the majority of Catharine Whyte's oil sketches.) In the lower right corner is the edge of a cliff of rock. The middleground contains the large bright blue surface of the lake. Half the lake's surface has long horizontal strokes of light blue, while reflections are described with short vertical strokes of tan, green and darker blue. On the left-hand side of the composition are tan-coloured slopes that come down to the water's edge. The right background contains a wall of violet-grey and blue-grey rock. In the left background can be seen the lower slopes of Mount McArthur coloured brown, and partially in shadow. An unfinished patch of blue sky appears at the top of the picture.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.271
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