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Artist
Jon Whyte (1941 – 1992, Canadian)
Date
1974
Medium
serigraph on paper
Catalogue Number
WyJ.04.01
Description
Names of mountain flowers are run together in straight rows of various colours - red, blue, yellow which produce secondary colours as they overlap. The predominant colour is yellow which appears to be the background with red and blue overlays to produce a tartan effect. The concept and design was b…
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Artist
Jon Whyte (1941 – 1992, Canadian)
Title
Mountain Tartan
Date
1974
Medium
serigraph on paper
Dimensions
42.0;50.7 x 46.0;67.2 cm
Description
Names of mountain flowers are run together in straight rows of various colours - red, blue, yellow which produce secondary colours as they overlap. The predominant colour is yellow which appears to be the background with red and blue overlays to produce a tartan effect. The concept and design was by Jon Whyte; the printing was done by Sue Nash and Virginia Lemieux at the Banff Centre Print Shop, both were students in Banff Centre programme.
Subject
abstract
non-representational
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyJ.04.01
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