General colour: lower half - green, upper half - blues, purples. A lake fills lower half of canvas. There's a cluster of trees in the lower left corner.Half way up is the far shore of trees rising to mountains. The center of the canvas leads to distant mountain and sky. In the lower right corner ar…
General colour: lower half - green, upper half - blues, purples. A lake fills lower half of canvas. There's a cluster of trees in the lower left corner.Half way up is the far shore of trees rising to mountains. The center of the canvas leads to distant mountain and sky. In the lower right corner are three rocks.
Copy of inscription au verso:To Pete and Catherine (sic) Whyte, with congratulations (better late than never) with the hope that life will always be as pleasant for them both as for Pete in the sketch. From this humble fellow member in the Opabin Shale Splitter’s J .E. H. MacDonaldOct. 1, 1930
Copy of inscription au verso:To Pete and Catherine (sic) Whyte, with congratulations (better late than never) with the hope that life will always be as pleasant for them both as for Pete in the sketch. From this humble fellow member in the Opabin Shale Splitter’s J .E. H. MacDonaldOct. 1, 1930
Three mountain sheep in center left of picture, two facing front, one turned away - painted by Carl Rungius. Background painted by Jimmy Simpson shows brownish rocks in foreground on which sheep are standing, a mountain side runs from top left to bottom right, is blue with yellow tint towards top l…
Three mountain sheep in center left of picture, two facing front, one turned away - painted by Carl Rungius. Background painted by Jimmy Simpson shows brownish rocks in foreground on which sheep are standing, a mountain side runs from top left to bottom right, is blue with yellow tint towards top left. A snowy mountain side is in right background, some sky with yellowish clouds show through.
The shore of Lake Oesa is visible in the foreground at the bottom of the painting. It is quite rocky. A small shrub or plant is sprouting out of the rock on the right side of the shore. The turquoise Lake Oesa stretches across the canvas. The lake meets up with the headwall of the glacier which …
The shore of Lake Oesa is visible in the foreground at the bottom of the painting. It is quite rocky. A small shrub or plant is sprouting out of the rock on the right side of the shore. The turquoise Lake Oesa stretches across the canvas. The lake meets up with the headwall of the glacier which forms the upper half of the painting. It is painted in shades of dark blue and purple. At the top of the painting, blue and white areas of the glacier are visible.