Side 1: Pencil drawing of car driving on a highway to the viewer’s right and into the distance. Other more roughly sketched vehicles are in oncoming lanes. A sign to the right of the road reads: ACROSS THE SOUTHERN STATES/ TO THE PACIFIC AND/ VANCOUVERIn the top left corner, the number 13 is circle…
Across the Southern States to the Blue Pacific and Vancouver
Date
1925 – 1966
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
14.5 x 21.0 cm
Description
Side 1: Pencil drawing of car driving on a highway to the viewer’s right and into the distance. Other more roughly sketched vehicles are in oncoming lanes. A sign to the right of the road reads: ACROSS THE SOUTHERN STATES/ TO THE PACIFIC AND/ VANCOUVERIn the top left corner, the number 13 is circled.Side 2: Pencil drawing of a car driving through a landscape of rolling hills. Mountains are barely visible in the background. This illustration is in a rectangular box. Below this box is a rectangle that is divided into four.
Inscription reads: Brazeau Snowfield, Jasper. Sketchbook drawing by Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970). Presented to the Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, Alta. in memory of Peter & Catharine Whyte by Anne & Lawren P. Harris, June, 1979. Also written by Lawren P. Harris is the Following: I certify this work to…
Inscription reads: Brazeau Snowfield, Jasper. Sketchbook drawing by Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970). Presented to the Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, Alta. in memory of Peter & Catharine Whyte by Anne & Lawren P. Harris, June, 1979. Also written by Lawren P. Harris is the Following: I certify this work to be an original sketchbook drawing by Lawren S. Harris, (1885-1970. Lawren P. Harris, May 22, 1979. Ottawa, Ontario.
This drawing is a stylistically loose portrayal of a mountain scene. This scene is comprised only of mountains and rock - no trees or such other landscape. There is a peak in TLC and the mountain slopes downward to another smaller peak in the TRC. The foreground of the piece is comprised of many…
This drawing is a stylistically loose portrayal of a mountain scene. This scene is comprised only of mountains and rock - no trees or such other landscape. There is a peak in TLC and the mountain slopes downward to another smaller peak in the TRC. The foreground of the piece is comprised of many loose rocks that are piled on top of one another and recede into the background. The line quality of the drawing in the foreground is much heavier and more detailed than the background. Shading in the piece is done mostly with cross-hatching.
Pencil drawing of a mountain capped with snow. The silhouette of trees act as a screen in the foreground. A hand drawn frame in pencil encircles the drawing.MT. SIR DONALD [centre bottom] CANADIAN ROCKIES [brc]appears to have an erased signature in bottom right corner, with “Pete...” Peter White 1…
Pencil drawing of a mountain capped with snow. The silhouette of trees act as a screen in the foreground. A hand drawn frame in pencil encircles the drawing.MT. SIR DONALD [centre bottom] CANADIAN ROCKIES [brc]appears to have an erased signature in bottom right corner, with “Pete...” Peter White 1921 [brc, above CANADIAN ROCKIES]
Landscapes where the focal point is in betwwern the artist / viewer and the hill or mountain in the background of each drawing . Writing denotes details and colour scheme.Writing on back: “nearing Calgary from Regina - March 12th - 28”
Landscapes where the focal point is in betwwern the artist / viewer and the hill or mountain in the background of each drawing . Writing denotes details and colour scheme.Writing on back: “nearing Calgary from Regina - March 12th - 28”
Scene with a lake in the forground center moving back over sloping forests to the mountain in the background.“It is not surprising that this soft, moody sketch shows some wear as Collings seems to have been travelling by canoe. The artist would have been well into his seventies on this trip.” -- …
On the Columbia between Revelstoke and Arrow Lakes
Date
c. 1925
Medium
graphite on oil paper
Dimensions
26 x 20 cm
Description
Scene with a lake in the forground center moving back over sloping forests to the mountain in the background.“It is not surprising that this soft, moody sketch shows some wear as Collings seems to have been travelling by canoe. The artist would have been well into his seventies on this trip.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
Scene of a river with swiftly moveing water and with trees to its rear bank.“Collings focused increasingly on the centre of his pictures in his late work, leaving the edges ‘open’ as in this example.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
Scene of a river with swiftly moveing water and with trees to its rear bank.“Collings focused increasingly on the centre of his pictures in his late work, leaving the edges ‘open’ as in this example.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
Scene of buildings situated on top of a hill, with some more below these upon appendage-like stilts. - there is one building in the immediate forground right.“A full range of tones evenly dapple this sketch moving the viewer’s eye easily about it. Collings sketched the town from the base of a hall …
Scene of buildings situated on top of a hill, with some more below these upon appendage-like stilts. - there is one building in the immediate forground right.“A full range of tones evenly dapple this sketch moving the viewer’s eye easily about it. Collings sketched the town from the base of a hall looking up; the result is fresh and spontaneous but clearly exhibits Collings’ superb control and concise line at this late stage of his career.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
A stylistically loose line drawing of a mountain scene. The drawing is done on a paper that is brownish in tone. The top 1/3 of the piece is blank - a clear sky. A mountain range takes up the next 1/3 of the piece, and the tallest portion is centered on the page. In the foreground of the piece …
A stylistically loose line drawing of a mountain scene. The drawing is done on a paper that is brownish in tone. The top 1/3 of the piece is blank - a clear sky. A mountain range takes up the next 1/3 of the piece, and the tallest portion is centered on the page. In the foreground of the piece is a small valley with low lying hills on either side. The hills and mountains are cropped at either side of the piece. The valley created by the hills exits the drawing in the BLC.
Mountain peaks on left and right top of work. Suggestion of a building or dam dominates the centre of the work. On back: “Ruins at Bankhead, August 1949.”
Mountain peaks on left and right top of work. Suggestion of a building or dam dominates the centre of the work. On back: “Ruins at Bankhead, August 1949.”