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Don Gardner, the Hooker Icefield

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Artist: John Hartman (1950 – , Canadian)

Date: 2015

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: HaO.05.19

Description: Watercolour, three-quarter view, bust portrait of Don Gardner with the mountainous view of the hooker Icefield behind him.

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Artist: John Hartman (1950 – , Canadian)

Title: Don Gardner, the Hooker Icefield

Date: 2015

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 57.15 x 62.23 cm

Description: Watercolour, three-quarter view, bust portrait of Don Gardner with the mountainous view of the hooker Icefield behind him.

Subject: mountain; hartman; gardner; watercolour; portrait

Credit: Gift of John Hartman, Tiny, 2017

Catalogue Number: HaO.05.19

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Dorothy Carleton

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Artist: Bev Tosh (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 2014

Medium: oil on plywood

Catalogue Number: TsB.02.01 a,b

Description: (a) portrait of Dorothy Carleton facing the viewer, her face in the top 1/3 and shoulders fade into the prominent wood grain, the bottom 2/3 is lightly painted white dress on wood grain. There is ar rainbow in top left corner to represent Dorothy’s statement of “living at the end of the rainbow”, t…

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Artist: Bev Tosh (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Dorothy Carleton

Date: 2014

Medium: oil on plywood

Dimensions: 121.92 x 31.43 cm

Description: (a) portrait of Dorothy Carleton facing the viewer, her face in the top 1/3 and shoulders fade into the prominent wood grain, the bottom 2/3 is lightly painted white dress on wood grain. There is ar rainbow in top left corner to represent Dorothy’s statement of “living at the end of the rainbow”, the street she lived on in Banff with her family according to painter Tosh.(b) 142 x 30 cm white silk panel with black typed inscription

Subject: war bride; Carleton; Tosh; portrait; bride; war

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Carleton, Banff, 2016

Catalogue Number: TsB.02.01 a,b

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Douglas Lake Ranch

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Artist: Luis Fabini (1965 – , Uruguay)

Date: 2014

Medium: archival ink jet print

Catalogue Number: FaL.18.01

Description: coloured image of cows in a snowy grassy field with man on horse centre right

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Artist: Luis Fabini (1965 – , Uruguay)

Title: Douglas Lake Ranch

Date: 2014

Medium: archival ink jet print

Dimensions: 47.62 x 71.75 cm

Description: coloured image of cows in a snowy grassy field with man on horse centre right

Subject: horse; Douglas Lake Ranch; British Columbia; cow; herding; farm; cowboy; Fabini; snow

Credit: Gift of Luis Fabini, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2017

Catalogue Number: FaL.18.01

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Driving East to Fernie on Hwy 3

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Artist: John Hartman (1950 – , Canadian)

Date: 2012

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: HaO.05.06

Description: Watercolour of landscape driving to Fernie on Hwy 3.

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Artist: John Hartman (1950 – , Canadian)

Title: Driving East to Fernie on Hwy 3

Date: 2012

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 28.5 x 35.5 cm

Description: Watercolour of landscape driving to Fernie on Hwy 3.

Subject: landscape, Fernie, Hwy 3

Credit: Gift of John Hartman, Tiny, 2014

Catalogue Number: HaO.05.06

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Ed

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Artist: Sarah Fuller (1978 – , Canadian)

Date: 2010

Medium: photograph on epson premium luster drymounted

Catalogue Number: FuS.18.07

Description: Man standing on mountain with mountain landscape behind him

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Artist: Sarah Fuller (1978 – , Canadian)

Title: Ed

Date: 2010

Medium: photograph on epson premium luster drymounted

Dimensions: 101.6 x 76.2 cm

Description: Man standing on mountain with mountain landscape behind him

Subject: documentary photography; Banff; community; landscape; portrait; Ed Bamiling

Credit: Gift of Sarah Fuller, Wakefield, 2016

Catalogue Number: FuS.18.07

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Edith Cavell Triptych

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Artist: Wendy Klotz

Date: 2010

Medium: on fibre; wood; metal; velcro

Catalogue Number: KlW.08.01 a-i

Description: Six fabric panels, three of heavy cotton material and three of light gauzy material, and three wood “L” shaped dowlings with velcro for display. Panel reads: “I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone” with 16 guns lining the left side, and 6 footprints at the bottom of the panel. Panel re…

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Artist: Wendy Klotz

Title: Edith Cavell Triptych

Date: 2010

Medium: on fibre; wood; metal; velcro

Dimensions: 65 x 106 cm

Description: Six fabric panels, three of heavy cotton material and three of light gauzy material, and three wood “L” shaped dowlings with velcro for display. Panel reads: “I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone” with 16 guns lining the left side, and 6 footprints at the bottom of the panel. Panel reads: “Edith Louisa Cavell October 11, 1915” with image of landscape and screenprinted image of Edith Cavell. Panel reads: “I realize that Patriotism is not enough” with small flags throughout panel, and three large red crosses.

Subject: Edith Cavell; 1915; patriotism; textile

Credit: Gift of Wendy Klotz, Calgary, 2012

Catalogue Number: KlW.08.01 a-i

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The Elk River at Fernie, B.C.

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Artist: John Hartman (1950 – , Canadian)

Date: 2011

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: HaO.05.09

Description: Watercolour of Elk River at Fernie, B.C., river in bottom right corner, blue mountain at top left, mauve mountains in back right

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Artist: John Hartman (1950 – , Canadian)

Title: The Elk River at Fernie, B.C.

Date: 2011

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 28.5 x 35.5 cm

Description: Watercolour of Elk River at Fernie, B.C., river in bottom right corner, blue mountain at top left, mauve mountains in back right

Subject: landscape, mountains, Fernie, B.C., Elk River

Credit: Gift of John Hartman, Tiny, 2014

Catalogue Number: HaO.05.09

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Embroidery Sampler

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Date: 1799

Material: fibre; wood

Catalogue Number: 107.02.1007 a-c

Description: Traditional sampler, 4.0 wide border is a line of stitching in pyramid shapes with flower baskets. At the top of inside border is the upper case alphabet, one line of small letters, other in bigger letters and two lines. In the centre is a picture of a white house to the left, a green picket f…

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Title: Embroidery Sampler

Date: 1799

Material: fibre; wood

Dimensions: 42.0 x 42.0 cm

Description: Traditional sampler, 4.0 wide border is a line of stitching in pyramid shapes with flower baskets. At the top of inside border is the upper case alphabet, one line of small letters, other in bigger letters and two lines. In the centre is a picture of a white house to the left, a green picket fence, two trees and to the right a two storey brown house. Below that is six lines of writing beginning "One Weeks Extremity May Teach Us ....." "Susan Lehman her work done In the ninth year Of Her Age (__ ?) 1799" * Someone numbered the labels as (a) and (b) and the sampler as (c). It is too fragile to change

Subject: households; furnishings; Susan Lehmann; Mary Schaffer Warren; hobbies

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: 107.02.1007 a-c

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Ensemble

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Date: 1790 – 1836

Material: fibre; skin; metal

Catalogue Number: 103.05.1053 a-f

Description: Pair shoes, pair gloves, pillow, long embroidered dress, (a) dress 132.0x72.0. Fine cotton with vertical lines of embroidery running full length, high empire line, short set-in sleeves with 5.0 wide lace at sleeve opening, tightly gathered centre front skirt. Bodice 15.0 long with silk lacing t…

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Title: Ensemble

Date: 1790 – 1836

Material: fibre; skin; metal

Description: Pair shoes, pair gloves, pillow, long embroidered dress, (a) dress 132.0x72.0. Fine cotton with vertical lines of embroidery running full length, high empire line, short set-in sleeves with 5.0 wide lace at sleeve opening, tightly gathered centre front skirt. Bodice 15.0 long with silk lacing to tighten. Back opening to waist with drawstring neckline and empire waistline. 24.0 long slit openings at waist both sides. Bodicelined with unbleached cotton. (b,c) ivory satin shoes, 26.0 long. Very pointed toe, narrow leather sole and heel, heel shaped, 2.0 high. (d,e) tiny white unlined leather gloves, 12.5 around palm, 13.0 from centre finger to wrist. Fine stitching with 3 decorative 4.0 long seams on back of hand, wrist closure with a snap. (f) ring cushion, 13.0x9.0x4.0, embossed satin with satin bows on each corner with tiny white shells. Shells threaded on fine wire. 2.0 long steel straight pins are stuck into pillow to form letters, one side "L'Amitie", other side appears to be "PLMS"