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Power Dam near Calgary

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Artist
Doris Cormie
Date
1933
Medium
drawing on paper
Catalogue Number
CmD.03.02
Description
A pastel landscape drawing on brown paper. A large cement dam at left, reaching past the centre dominates the drawing. In the background the sky is a pale blue. The large, grey dam has white water rushing through on the viewer’s right. On the same side of the drawing, extending out of frame, is a …
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Artist
Doris Cormie
Title
Power Dam near Calgary
Date
1933
Medium
drawing on paper
Dimensions
26.5 x 38.5 cm
Description
A pastel landscape drawing on brown paper. A large cement dam at left, reaching past the centre dominates the drawing. In the background the sky is a pale blue. The large, grey dam has white water rushing through on the viewer’s right. On the same side of the drawing, extending out of frame, is a large brown rock with yellow and orange highlites. In the foreground is blue water with white highlites. The artist signature is written in the bottom right corner in pencil. Au verso, written in very faint pencil in the top right corner is, “Doris Cormie 23 Aug 1933”.
Subject
dam
architecture
Doris Cormie
Credit
Gift of Barry Hunter Gillis, Richmond, 2006
Catalogue Number
CmD.03.02
Images
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