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Elizabeth Parker Hut, Contentment Meadows, Lake O'Hara

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1938
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.078
Description
Colour: green, purple. In the foreground is green grass and two boulders in the lower right corner. Trees fill the middle ground and right of center are three cabins. The mountains rise up behind the trees. There's a patch of blue sky in the upper left corner and a little right of center at the top.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Elizabeth Parker Hut, Contentment Meadows, Lake O'Hara
Date
1938
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.4 cm
Description
Colour: green, purple. In the foreground is green grass and two boulders in the lower right corner. Trees fill the middle ground and right of center are three cabins. The mountains rise up behind the trees. There's a patch of blue sky in the upper left corner and a little right of center at the top.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
mountain
architecture
rural
camp
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.078
Images
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