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Anemone parviflora (Alpine Anenome)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.24
Description
Two plants with brown roots; large leaves; a white flower with yellow bud.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Anemone parviflora (Alpine Anenome)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25.0 x 15.0 cm
Description
Two plants with brown roots; large leaves; a white flower with yellow bud.
Subject
botanical
flower
anenome
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.24
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1965 – 1975
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.379
Description
The hill covered with Fireweed is surrounded by green fir, spruce or pine trees. The foreground area is covered with green grass and the sky above the pink field is light blue.
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Fireweed
Date
1965 – 1975
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
25.2 x 30.0 cm
Description
The hill covered with Fireweed is surrounded by green fir, spruce or pine trees. The foreground area is covered with green grass and the sky above the pink field is light blue.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
botanical
Fireweed
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.379
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First Time Bean Pods

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Artist
Ito Sojun
Date
1885 – 1885
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
SoI.03.01
Description
This drawing features a branch which extends from the blc, starting as one branch, and reaches into the tr side of the work where it branches into three grouping of leaves. The leaves are a black ink wash. Green ink is used to depict bean pods which are growing underneath the leaves closer to the…
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Artist
Ito Sojun
Title
First Time Bean Pods
Date
1885 – 1885
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
32.0 x 33.5 cm
Description
This drawing features a branch which extends from the blc, starting as one branch, and reaches into the tr side of the work where it branches into three grouping of leaves. The leaves are a black ink wash. Green ink is used to depict bean pods which are growing underneath the leaves closer to the bottom of the branch.
Subject
botanical
bean pods
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
SoI.03.01
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Artist
Kotani (or, Odani) Kingaku
Date
1883 – 1883
Medium
drawing on paper
Catalogue Number
KiO.03.01
Description
an ink wash drawing of four leaves. There are 2 different types of leaves, one type with a stem and many branches; the other with a stem down the middle and two sides. There is writing along the rs.
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Artist
Kotani (or, Odani) Kingaku
Title
Ink Leaves
Date
1883 – 1883
Medium
drawing on paper
Dimensions
32.5 x 35.5 cm
Description
an ink wash drawing of four leaves. There are 2 different types of leaves, one type with a stem and many branches; the other with a stem down the middle and two sides. There is writing along the rs.
Subject
botanical
leaves
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KiO.03.01
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Lobelia kalmii (Brook Lobelia)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1888
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.28
Description
A delicate painting of long green stems and long, thin leaves; with small purple flowers near top.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Lobelia kalmii (Brook Lobelia)
Date
1888
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
17.5 x 12.5 cm
Description
A delicate painting of long green stems and long, thin leaves; with small purple flowers near top.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.28
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Lychnis apetala (Nodding Lychnis/Campion)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.27
Description
A plant with a long root that spreads widely, small leaves at lower part of stem; atop each stem is a round, ribbed bulb with purple centres; to the viewer’s left of this is a smaller drawing of the same kind of plant with 2 stems and flowers.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Lychnis apetala (Nodding Lychnis/Campion)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
24.5 x 17.5 cm
Description
A plant with a long root that spreads widely, small leaves at lower part of stem; atop each stem is a round, ribbed bulb with purple centres; to the viewer’s left of this is a smaller drawing of the same kind of plant with 2 stems and flowers.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.27
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Artist
Okamoto Keiki
Date
1884 – 1884
Medium
drawing on paper
Catalogue Number
KeO.03.01
Description
A branch of a magnolia tree enters the page at the blc and stretches up towards the trc. The branch is painted with a black ink. On the branch, magnolia flowers (2) and magnolia buds (3) reach towards the top of the page. There is light green ink on the flowers and buds, a red center is visible …
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Artist
Okamoto Keiki
Title
Magnolia
Date
1884 – 1884
Medium
drawing on paper
Dimensions
32.0 x 35.0 cm
Description
A branch of a magnolia tree enters the page at the blc and stretches up towards the trc. The branch is painted with a black ink. On the branch, magnolia flowers (2) and magnolia buds (3) reach towards the top of the page. There is light green ink on the flowers and buds, a red center is visible on the flower closest to the left. The buds are painted with a mid-tone of brown.
Subject
botanical
magnolia
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KeO.03.01
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Moneses uniflora (blue one) Epilobium palustre (pink one)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.25
Description
Two different plants on the page; to the left two mostly green plants, with leaves near the roots; a long stem is topped with a white five-petalled flower with orange stamins; other is a single plant with long leaves and small four-pink flowers.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Moneses uniflora (blue one) Epilobium palustre (pink one)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
17.5 x 25.5 cm
Description
Two different plants on the page; to the left two mostly green plants, with leaves near the roots; a long stem is topped with a white five-petalled flower with orange stamins; other is a single plant with long leaves and small four-pink flowers.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.25
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Montia (Claytonia) parvifolia (Small-leaved Springbeauty)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.23
Description
A single plant; brown root with tendrils and 9 stems emanating from it; the stems have small leaves; five have small pink flowers and/or buds.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Montia (Claytonia) parvifolia (Small-leaved Springbeauty)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25.5 x 17.5 cm
Description
A single plant; brown root with tendrils and 9 stems emanating from it; the stems have small leaves; five have small pink flowers and/or buds.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.23
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1968
Medium
oil on canvas on aluminum
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.232
Description
This is a very loose sketch of a rock garden. The dominate colours are red in the middle of the picture frame. It is surrounded by exuberant circular brush strokes of beige, purple and blue paint. Smaller green and yellow strokes of paint around the red mass of colour imply some sort of shrub or bu…
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Rock Garden
Date
1968
Medium
oil on canvas on aluminum
Dimensions
25.4 x 30.3 cm
Description
This is a very loose sketch of a rock garden. The dominate colours are red in the middle of the picture frame. It is surrounded by exuberant circular brush strokes of beige, purple and blue paint. Smaller green and yellow strokes of paint around the red mass of colour imply some sort of shrub or bush.
Subject
botanical
mountain
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.232
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Sedum lanceolatum (Lanceleaf/Spearleaf Stonecrop)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.29
Description
A small painting of a plant; the brown roots have long thin tendrils; a clump of small leaves at the base; thick long stems with yellow flowers.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Sedum lanceolatum (Lanceleaf/Spearleaf Stonecrop)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
17.5 x 12.5 cm
Description
A small painting of a plant; the brown roots have long thin tendrils; a clump of small leaves at the base; thick long stems with yellow flowers.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.29
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Artist
James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1986
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
NiJ.03.08
Artist
James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)
Title
Study of Branches
Date
prior to 1986
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
20.6 x 28.3 cm
Subject
botanical
Credit
Purchased from Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 1979
Catalogue Number
NiJ.03.08
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Artist
Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1987
Medium
type c print on photographic paper
Catalogue Number
SpB.18.17
Description
The border of the photograph is a blue colour with writing below and above the retangular photographic image in the center. The image in the center is a scene looking threw a window. Around the window on the inside is a number of different plants. Outside you can see a white house with trees and hi…
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Artist
Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
prior to 1987
Medium
type c print on photographic paper
Dimensions
50.5 x 60.7 cm
Description
The border of the photograph is a blue colour with writing below and above the retangular photographic image in the center. The image in the center is a scene looking threw a window. Around the window on the inside is a number of different plants. Outside you can see a white house with trees and hills in the background. The plants on the inside are almost totally in silhouette.
Subject
botanical
plants
flowers
architecture
house
window
Credit
Gift of Barb Spohr, Calgary, 1996
Catalogue Number
SpB.18.17
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Artist
Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1987
Medium
type c print on photographic paper
Catalogue Number
SpB.18.18
Description
Sitting in the center of a table is a drinking glass with two flowers in it. Off to the left there is a sponge rabbit shape and behind the glass is a window covered with a light brown shade. Most of the space around the flowers is dark.
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Artist
Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
prior to 1987
Medium
type c print on photographic paper
Dimensions
60.8 x 50.7 cm
Description
Sitting in the center of a table is a drinking glass with two flowers in it. Off to the left there is a sponge rabbit shape and behind the glass is a window covered with a light brown shade. Most of the space around the flowers is dark.
Subject
botanical
flowers
Credit
Gift of Barb Spohr, Calgary, 1996
Catalogue Number
SpB.18.18
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Untitled [Branch and Leaves]

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Artist
Konishi Kinkyo
Date
1880 – 1880
Medium
drawing on paper
Catalogue Number
KnK.03.02
Description
This drawing features a stick that appears to be bamboo reaching diagonally across the page, starting in the llc and ending in the trc. At the top of the branch are leaves. All done in black ink.
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Artist
Konishi Kinkyo
Title
Untitled [Branch and Leaves]
Date
1880 – 1880
Medium
drawing on paper
Dimensions
32.0 x 35.5 cm
Description
This drawing features a stick that appears to be bamboo reaching diagonally across the page, starting in the llc and ending in the trc. At the top of the branch are leaves. All done in black ink.
Subject
botanical
branch
leaves
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KnK.03.02
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Untitled [Cucumber, Its Flower, Vine, Leaf]

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Artist
Ito Sojun
Date
1887 – 1887
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
SoI.03.02
Description
This drawing features a cucumber, and it vine with leaves. There is a slight green tint at the top of the Cucumber, and a yellow colour for one of its flowers. The vine starts in the trc of the paper and slopes to the blc.
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Artist
Ito Sojun
Title
Untitled [Cucumber, Its Flower, Vine, Leaf]
Date
1887 – 1887
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
21.0 x 35.0 cm
Description
This drawing features a cucumber, and it vine with leaves. There is a slight green tint at the top of the Cucumber, and a yellow colour for one of its flowers. The vine starts in the trc of the paper and slopes to the blc.
Subject
botanical
cucumber
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
SoI.03.02
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Untitled [Gentian Flower]

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Artist
Okamoto Keiki
Date
1884 – 1884
Medium
drawing on paper
Catalogue Number
KeO.03.02
Description
This is a drawing with coloured ink of a flower. A green stem rises from the lower left corner of the picture and ends in a blue, open flower near the top right corner. There are 3 smaller buds on the stem which blend in quite well with the green leaves on the stem
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Artist
Okamoto Keiki
Title
Untitled [Gentian Flower]
Date
1884 – 1884
Medium
drawing on paper
Dimensions
32.5 x 35 cm
Description
This is a drawing with coloured ink of a flower. A green stem rises from the lower left corner of the picture and ends in a blue, open flower near the top right corner. There are 3 smaller buds on the stem which blend in quite well with the green leaves on the stem
Subject
botanical
gentian flower
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KeO.03.02
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Young Willow Branches - Moon Crescent

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Artist
Takada Kakushu
Date
1881
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
KaD.03.01
Description
Willow branches fall into the page from the top edge, and one of these branches stretches all the way to the bottom center of the page. Through the leaves a crescent moon is visible.
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Artist
Takada Kakushu
Title
Young Willow Branches - Moon Crescent
Date
1881
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
32 x 35 cm
Description
Willow branches fall into the page from the top edge, and one of these branches stretches all the way to the bottom center of the page. Through the leaves a crescent moon is visible.
Subject
botanical
willow branches
landscape
moon
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KaD.03.01
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