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Artist
Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)
Date
1978
Medium
painting on paper
Catalogue Number
SiR.05.11
Description
A watercolour landscape painting. The painting is of a road winding through a mountain landscape. The image is tall and narrow. In the background there are three mountain peaks. All the mountains have simple outlines that have been done in pencil. The largest of the peaks, on the viewer’s right, ha…
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Artist
Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)
Title
RD MTN TWST
Date
1978
Medium
painting on paper
Dimensions
56.0 x 19.0 cm
Description
A watercolour landscape painting. The painting is of a road winding through a mountain landscape. The image is tall and narrow. In the background there are three mountain peaks. All the mountains have simple outlines that have been done in pencil. The largest of the peaks, on the viewer’s right, has a dark grey-blue wash near the top. The peak on the left in the background has a brown-grey wash. There is a brown-grey road that starts in the brhc and winds to the left, then disappears into the mountains about half way up the painting. Around the image there is a thin pencil line border. Under the image, at centre, is the title written in pencil, “RD MTN TWST”. In the brhc of the paper is the artist signature written in pencil and the year, “Sinclair 78”. Au verso, written in red ink in the top rhc is, “R.S. 666”.
Subject
landscape
mountain
road
Credit
Gift of David McClintock Denovan, Calgary, 2012
Catalogue Number
SiR.05.11
Images
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