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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1900 – 1925
- Medium
- watercolour; gouache on paper
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.05.04
- Description
- Blue god or demon surrounded in flames, over nude figure; flames and border rust coloured; 5/ on back. CRW purchased it in Katmandu, Nepal in Autumn of 1970, approx. a month long trip which included Langtang Valley trek.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Buddhist Icon
- Date
- 1900 – 1925
- Medium
- watercolour; gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 8.4 x 6.6 cm
- Description
- Blue god or demon surrounded in flames, over nude figure; flames and border rust coloured; 5/ on back. CRW purchased it in Katmandu, Nepal in Autumn of 1970, approx. a month long trip which included Langtang Valley trek.
- Subject
- figure, male
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.05.04
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.02
- Description
- General colour: grey green. A man, wearing only a blue loin cloth and two feathers in his braided hair grips the neck of another man who kneels to the right of him. A ghost image of a bear grasping a bison is slightly superimposed on top of them. There is a horizon line of white figures - four to e…
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- Title
- The Contest
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.1 x 37.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: grey green. A man, wearing only a blue loin cloth and two feathers in his braided hair grips the neck of another man who kneels to the right of him. A ghost image of a bear grasping a bison is slightly superimposed on top of them. There is a horizon line of white figures - four to each side of the central image.Au verso: “THE CONTEST” tlhc “436” encircled, rhtc “K.6” (remaining number hidden by archival tape)brhc “12” encircled, below “30” encircled
- Credit
- Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.02
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.08
- Description
- Colours blue, black, orange, yellow, gold; a stylized head in left centre of picture; long blue and gold earrings; a continuous line runs to centre left of picture, all very stylized, could be a lance with feathers hanging from it; the design at his neck resembles a bird's head; the background is l…
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- Indian Head
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- Colours blue, black, orange, yellow, gold; a stylized head in left centre of picture; long blue and gold earrings; a continuous line runs to centre left of picture, all very stylized, could be a lance with feathers hanging from it; the design at his neck resembles a bird's head; the background is left white.
- Subject
- mythological
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.08
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.07
- Description
- Colours gold, black, orange, yellow, blue, green; a stylized bird with a bear inside; object in centre of picture rest of background left white.
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- Indian Legend
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- Colours gold, black, orange, yellow, blue, green; a stylized bird with a bear inside; object in centre of picture rest of background left white.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.07
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.06
- Description
- A stylized open painting, colours yellow, orange, gold and black; symbols non-representational; background unpainted - left white.
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- Indian Legend
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- A stylized open painting, colours yellow, orange, gold and black; symbols non-representational; background unpainted - left white.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.06
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.05
- Description
- Colours yellow, orange, gold and black stylized animals and birds; open drawing background left white.
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- Indian Legend
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 41.0 cm
- Description
- Colours yellow, orange, gold and black stylized animals and birds; open drawing background left white.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.05
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.01
- Description
- General colour: red, yellow, blue, black on white - equal portions. A single figure showing a force looking right, above that a fish looking left and above that a bird, wings spread, and legs coming down, looking right. Symbolic meanings - mother and child on her back, fish with eggs and an eagle -…
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- LIfe Cycle
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Dimensions
- 152 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: red, yellow, blue, black on white - equal portions. A single figure showing a force looking right, above that a fish looking left and above that a bird, wings spread, and legs coming down, looking right. Symbolic meanings - mother and child on her back, fish with eggs and an eagle - all powerful symbols.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.01
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.02
- Description
- General colour: black on white. A whale going to the left. A long feather shape comes down from behind the tail.
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- Title
- Mahuk
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: black on white. A whale going to the left. A long feather shape comes down from behind the tail.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Unknown, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.02
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The Man Who Outran the Deer
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.03
- Description
- Colour: brown and white on yellow. Two small brown deer leap from viewer’s right two-thirds the way up. One antlered deer halts at the left side half way up. A running man wearing a loin cloth fills the centre space. His black hair with a feather in it flies out to the right.Au verso rhtc “111” en…
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- Title
- The Man Who Outran the Deer
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: brown and white on yellow. Two small brown deer leap from viewer’s right two-thirds the way up. One antlered deer halts at the left side half way up. A running man wearing a loin cloth fills the centre space. His black hair with a feather in it flies out to the right.Au verso rhtc “111” encircled
- Subject
- figure, male
- animal, deer
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.03
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To The Morning
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.04
- Description
- Colour: brown, red, blue, black on yellow. A bare-breasted woman with a baby in a cradleboard on her back strides towards the viewer’s left side of the painting. A black dog, with his red tongue hanging out, follows the high top moccasins in her left hand. She carries a white shawl in her right han…
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- Title
- To The Morning
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: brown, red, blue, black on yellow. A bare-breasted woman with a baby in a cradleboard on her back strides towards the viewer’s left side of the painting. A black dog, with his red tongue hanging out, follows the high top moccasins in her left hand. She carries a white shawl in her right hand and wears a blue, red, green and white skirt. A smaller image of the woman and the dog are seen in the red oval which sits right of center on the red horizon line.Au verso: “TO THE MORNING”
- Subject
- figure, female
- animal, dog
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.04
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.04
- Description
- A large black and white bird bends over to examine a red ball in the lower right corner. The left side is empty.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.0 x 26.5 cm
- Description
- A large black and white bird bends over to examine a red ball in the lower right corner. The left side is empty.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.04
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.03
- Description
- General colour: green on white. Two frog shaped creatures with large heads face out. Along the upper edge is a green raining stripe.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.4 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: green on white. Two frog shaped creatures with large heads face out. Along the upper edge is a green raining stripe.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Unknown, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.03
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1970 – 1975
- Medium
- acrylic on heavy watercolour paper
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.04
- Description
- Stylized painting, Indigenous man’s head all in red. Unfinished.
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1970 – 1975
- Medium
- acrylic on heavy watercolour paper
- Dimensions
- 16.5 x 22.0 cm
- Description
- Stylized painting, Indigenous man’s head all in red. Unfinished.
- Subject
- mythological
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.04
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.01
- Description
- General colour: blue on white. A serpent shaped creature whose tail in the lower left has three ends. Two flanges come out of the body in the upper right. The head is turned to the left.
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- Title
- The Wolf
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 43.8 x 30.2 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue on white. A serpent shaped creature whose tail in the lower left has three ends. Two flanges come out of the body in the upper right. The head is turned to the left.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Unknown, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.01
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Yellow Totem Pole
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.09
- Description
- The image is centered with a great deal of white background on all sides; the image appears to be a totem pole, yellow; other images extend from it, these are red with black.
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- Yellow Totem Pole
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 25.5;50.4 x 17.5;40.4 cm
- Description
- The image is centered with a great deal of white background on all sides; the image appears to be a totem pole, yellow; other images extend from it, these are red with black.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.09
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