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Avalanche Slope
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdgo.02.02
- Date
- 1955 – 1970
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- DgO.02.02
- Description
- tlc and along top is a cloudy sky, below that is a mountain face. The slope runs tr to bl. The mountain has a long expanse of white from tr to bl interspersed with trees and shadows. Stylized tree forms all along bottom edge.
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- Title
- Avalanche Slope
- Date
- 1955 – 1970
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 120.0 x 120.00 cm
- Description
- tlc and along top is a cloudy sky, below that is a mountain face. The slope runs tr to bl. The mountain has a long expanse of white from tr to bl interspersed with trees and shadows. Stylized tree forms all along bottom edge.
- Subject
- Canadian Rockies
- landscape
- winter
- Credit
- Gift of John P. Crabb, Winnipeg, 1995
- Catalogue Number
- DgO.02.02
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Banff Indian Days posters
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- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 14 colour and b&w oversized promotional posters and information boards for Banff Indian Days celebrations, promoted by Canadian Pacific. Posters largely feature identified and unidentified Indigenous people, notably Chief Spotted Eagle and Blind Eagle. Art medium includes oil pain…
- Date Range
- [ca. 1930-1950]
- 1936
- 1937
- 1949
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / D3 / 1 - 14
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Poster
- Drawing
- Published record
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- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- I.D.3. Personal and professional : Organizations
- Sous-Fonds
- I. Norman Luxton sous-fonds
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / D3 / 1 - 14
- Responsibility
- Published and artwork attributed to Ernie Kehr, W.L. Kihn, G.H.W. Ashley, Crag & Canyon Press, Palenske, Canadian Pacific and Multi Color Poster
- Date Range
- [ca. 1930-1950]
- 1936
- 1937
- 1949
- Physical Description
- 14 posters : colour and b&w ; 35 x 56 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 14 colour and b&w oversized promotional posters and information boards for Banff Indian Days celebrations, promoted by Canadian Pacific. Posters largely feature identified and unidentified Indigenous people, notably Chief Spotted Eagle and Blind Eagle. Art medium includes oil paint process mounted on cardboard made in Canada and distributed by Exhibits Branch Canadian Pacific, lithographic prints, and a mounted drawing attributed to Palenske. Some have annotations or stamps on the back.
- Notes
- Possibly unassociated shipping packing material addressed to Norman Luxton at the Trading Post from E.A. Kehr found in box - this has not been assigned a number. D3-10, a lithographic promotional material from 1936 has an identical design to LUX / II / F1 / 47, an Indian Days poster from 1928 Items LUX / I / D3 / 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 were originally associated with LUX / I / D3a / 6, which contains brochures and a flyer from Banff Indian Days LUX / I / D3 / 8, Palenske may have potentionally used photograph LUX / I / D3a / PA-26 as reference
- Material Details
- Some posters have foldable cardboard stand at back to place upright on surface, adhesives, and perhaps mounting additives.
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Advertising
- Community events
- Banff Indian Days
- Indigenous Peoples
- Tourism
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Alberta
- Banff National Park
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Buffalo Stampede
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.581
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.581
1 image
- Title
- Buffalo Stampede
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 9.6 x 21.7 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.581
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Bunchberry [Creeping Dogwood]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.32
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- watercolour / gouche?; ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.32
- Description
- Botanical painting of 3 stems of a plant. stems have green leaves and two have bunches of red berries. The uppermost stem has a white flower with four petals and purple stamen. Written below in pencil is “Bunchberry”
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- Title
- Bunchberry [Creeping Dogwood]
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- watercolour / gouche?; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- Botanical painting of 3 stems of a plant. stems have green leaves and two have bunches of red berries. The uppermost stem has a white flower with four petals and purple stamen. Written below in pencil is “Bunchberry”
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.32
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Calypso bulbosa (Calypso Orchid/Pink Fairy's Slipper)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.19
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.19
- Description
- A single green stem from bottom centre curves to centre with 2 flowers, both are dark pink with yellow centre, pink petals flare out from bottom of flowers.
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- Title
- Calypso bulbosa (Calypso Orchid/Pink Fairy's Slipper)
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.3 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- A single green stem from bottom centre curves to centre with 2 flowers, both are dark pink with yellow centre, pink petals flare out from bottom of flowers.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.19
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- Date
- 1950 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.566
- Description
- A sketch or unfinished painting of a ring of nine teepees. The teepee in the foreground, viewer’s right, is the largest, has inside firelight and shadows visible. The teepee, in the foreground, viewer’s left, is partially visible, with shadows and light from within visible. There are two figures in…
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- Title
- Camp at Dusk
- Date
- 1950 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 27.0 x 71.0 cm
- Description
- A sketch or unfinished painting of a ring of nine teepees. The teepee in the foreground, viewer’s right, is the largest, has inside firelight and shadows visible. The teepee, in the foreground, viewer’s left, is partially visible, with shadows and light from within visible. There are two figures in the foreground, one in red, and one in blue and yellow and suggestions of others in the background. There is a low blue sky dusk descending overhead.
- Subject
- landscape
- camp
- teepee
- figure
- group
- Peter Whyte
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.566
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- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.580
1 image
- Title
- Camp Scene
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 9.4 x 21.4 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.580
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- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.582
1 image
- Title
- Camp Scene
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 9.7 x 21.4 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.582
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- Date
- 1951 – 1959
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- TuJ.03.01
- Description
- TuJ.03.01 (1951) roadside church, pen & ink, signed brc J.D. Turner Xmas card sent to the Whytes.
1 image
- Title
- Card Sketches
- Date
- 1951 – 1959
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 17.0 cm
- Description
- TuJ.03.01 (1951) roadside church, pen & ink, signed brc J.D. Turner Xmas card sent to the Whytes.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- TuJ.03.01
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- Date
- 1951 – 1959
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- TuJ.03.02
- Description
- TuJ.03.02 (1955) fence and foothills, gouache, initialled JDT brc Xmas card sent to the Whytes.
1 image
- Title
- Card Sketches
- Date
- 1951 – 1959
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 17.0 cm
- Description
- TuJ.03.02 (1955) fence and foothills, gouache, initialled JDT brc Xmas card sent to the Whytes.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- TuJ.03.02
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- Date
- 1951 – 1959
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- TuJ.03.03
- Description
- TuJ.03.03 (1959) Sunfield on fencepost (artist's residence west of Calgary); gouache. Xmas card sent to the Whytes.
1 image
- Title
- Card Sketches
- Date
- 1951 – 1959
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 17.0 cm
- Description
- TuJ.03.03 (1959) Sunfield on fencepost (artist's residence west of Calgary); gouache. Xmas card sent to the Whytes.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- TuJ.03.03
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Cardinal Richelieu
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- Artist
- Roberto Raimondi
- Title
- Cardinal Richelieu
- Date
- c. 1900
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 38.0 x 53.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- RaR.05.01
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Chiefs on Horseback
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.570
- Date
- 1954 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.570
1 image
- Title
- Chiefs on Horseback
- Date
- 1954 – 1955
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 20.2 x 50.3 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.570
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Circle of Tents
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.571
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.571
1 image
- Title
- Circle of Tents
- Date
- 1955 – 1957
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 19.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.571
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Corral, Bow Lake
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.452
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.452
1 image
- Title
- Corral, Bow Lake
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 35.2 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- camp
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.452
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Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.424
- Date
- 1954
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.424
1 image
- Title
- Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake
- Date
- 1954
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.1 x 30.2 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- lake
- glacier
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.424
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Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.514
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.514
1 image
- Title
- Crowfoot Glacier, Bow Lake
- Date
- 1950 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 35.4 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- lake
- glacier
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.514
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Dodecathem meadia (Shooting Star)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.09
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.09
- Description
- Short, thick green leaves cluster at base, 4 long pink stems extend from root; dart-like pink and yellow flowers at top of stems.
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- Title
- Dodecathem meadia (Shooting Star)
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- Short, thick green leaves cluster at base, 4 long pink stems extend from root; dart-like pink and yellow flowers at top of stems.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.09
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Down Before the Storm
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdgo.02.03
- Date
- 1955 – 1970
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- DgO.02.03
- Description
- The foreground of snow covers approximately one quarter of the picture, slopes from cr to bl. Two skiers, one in a yellow jacket, stand on the edge of the slope looking inwards. The rest of the picture is mostly grey clouds, covering the slopes in the background.
1 image
- Title
- Down Before the Storm
- Date
- 1955 – 1970
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 120.0 x 120.0 cm
- Description
- The foreground of snow covers approximately one quarter of the picture, slopes from cr to bl. Two skiers, one in a yellow jacket, stand on the edge of the slope looking inwards. The rest of the picture is mostly grey clouds, covering the slopes in the background.
- Credit
- Gift of John P. Crabb, Winnipeg, 1995
- Catalogue Number
- DgO.02.03
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Erythronium grandiflorum (Glacier Lily)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.12
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.12
- Description
- A thick green leaf rises from centre left at the bottom of the picture to top right; from inside the leaf protrude 2 yellow blossoms.
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- Title
- Erythronium grandiflorum (Glacier Lily)
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- A thick green leaf rises from centre left at the bottom of the picture to top right; from inside the leaf protrude 2 yellow blossoms.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.12
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