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Bear Dancer I

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Artist: Colleen Campbell (1945 – , Canadian )

Date: 1979

Medium: graphite; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CmC.03.01

Description: Located in the center and filling most of the image area is an Inuit dancer. He stands with his back toward the viewer. His tunic is a yellow colour and he holds a drum stick in his right hand. He has medium length straight hair depicted in graphite and a colourful belt tied around his waist. His t…

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Artist: Colleen Campbell (1945 – , Canadian )

Title: Bear Dancer I

Date: 1979

Medium: graphite; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 105.0 x 75.5 cm

Description: Located in the center and filling most of the image area is an Inuit dancer. He stands with his back toward the viewer. His tunic is a yellow colour and he holds a drum stick in his right hand. He has medium length straight hair depicted in graphite and a colourful belt tied around his waist. His tunic has fringes at the sides and bottom and he has a decorative strip around the top of his mukluk.

Subject: figure; male; Inuit

Credit: Gift of Dora Helen Mackie, Calgary, 1998

Catalogue Number: CmC.03.01

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Bill Neish's Horse 1936

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: 1936

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.01

Description: General colour: brown on white. A horse saddled and carrying a rifle, saddle bags, and another case. Stands facing left. His ears are perked. Around the edges are notes by the artist regarding colouration.

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Bill Neish's Horse 1936

Date: 1936

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 28.0 x 38.0 cm

Description: General colour: brown on white. A horse saddled and carrying a rifle, saddle bags, and another case. Stands facing left. His ears are perked. Around the edges are notes by the artist regarding colouration.

Subject: animal; horse

Credit: Gift of Helen Collinson, Edmonton, 1974

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.01

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Buffalo preliminary sketches

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Artist: Clarence Ingwall Tillenius (1913 – 2012, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1996

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: TiC.03.02

Description: Drawn lightly are two bison running toward each other ready to bang heads. Under foot you can see the suggestion of ground represented by a few lines. One bison is running from the upper left corner and the other is running from the center right.

Artist: Clarence Ingwall Tillenius (1913 – 2012, Canadian)

Title: Buffalo preliminary sketches

Date: prior to 1996

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.4 x 20.4 cm

Description: Drawn lightly are two bison running toward each other ready to bang heads. Under foot you can see the suggestion of ground represented by a few lines. One bison is running from the upper left corner and the other is running from the center right.

Subject: animal; buffalo

Credit: Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996

Catalogue Number: TiC.03.02

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Canmore, Alberta, July 27, 1970

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Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.01

Description: Colour: black on white. Lower two thirds is mountain - the peak is upper center. Clear sky goes across the upper third.

Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Title: Canmore, Alberta, July 27, 1970

Date: 1970

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 22.5 x 29.75 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. Lower two thirds is mountain - the peak is upper center. Clear sky goes across the upper third.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of James McLaren Nicoll, 1976

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.01

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Canmore, Alberta, July, 1970

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Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.02

Description: Colour: black on white. Across the bottom are roof tops and chimneys. Behind,filling the upper three quarters is a mountain - peak in the center - stay on both sides.

Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Title: Canmore, Alberta, July, 1970

Date: 1970

Medium: ink on paper

Description: Colour: black on white. Across the bottom are roof tops and chimneys. Behind,filling the upper three quarters is a mountain - peak in the center - stay on both sides.

Subject: landscape; mountain; architecture

Credit: Gift of James McLaren Nicoll, 1976

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.02

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Canmore, S.W. from Bow Valley Cabins

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Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.03

Description: Colour: black on white. A mountain peaking right of enter near the top another mountain is behind to the right. Sky comes down left and in upper right corner.

Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Title: Canmore, S.W. from Bow Valley Cabins

Date: 1970

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 24.0 x 30.5 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. A mountain peaking right of enter near the top another mountain is behind to the right. Sky comes down left and in upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of James McLaren Nicoll, 1976

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.03

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Catharine and Peter Season’s Greetings

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1960

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.939

Description: Christmas card drawing. A group of animals are painting canvases that are resting on easels. They are facing the viewer suggesting they could be painting you. Below the drawing it says “CATHARINE AND PETER SEASON’S GREETINGS” and in the TRC “164”

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Catharine and Peter Season’s Greetings

Date: 1930 – 1960

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 17.7 x 25.9 cm

Description: Christmas card drawing. A group of animals are painting canvases that are resting on easels. They are facing the viewer suggesting they could be painting you. Below the drawing it says “CATHARINE AND PETER SEASON’S GREETINGS” and in the TRC “164”

Subject: animal; moose; bird; squirrel; mouse; deer; bear; rabbit; wolf; easel; canvas; paint; painting; brush; palette; Christmas card

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.939

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Coup

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.03.01

Description: Colour: black on white. The horse plunges to the left. The rider leans to viewer’s right, the coup stick in his hand coming down to touch the head of another man who is bent over. In the background are silhouettes, to the left is a figure holding onto a horse and rider; both figures have arms rais…

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Coup

Date: 1970

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 27.7 x 39.5 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. The horse plunges to the left. The rider leans to viewer’s right, the coup stick in his hand coming down to touch the head of another man who is bent over. In the background are silhouettes, to the left is a figure holding onto a horse and rider; both figures have arms raised and between the rider and figure to the right is a silhouette of another horse and rider.Au verso in pencil “COUP” the word “SOLD” in a rectangle, to the right of that “Archives of the Cdn” and above that the number “60” encircled and then an “X” to cross it out

Subject: animal, horse; figure, male

Credit: Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: StS.03.01

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Dear Jon

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Artist: Dennis Burton (1933 – 2013, Canadian)

Date: 1981

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BuD.03.16

Description: Letter to Jon in black india ink. “454 EAST 8TH AVE APT 204VANCOUVER BCV5T 1S7, 4:20PM, APRIL 5/81DEAR JON:YOUR EPIC POEM HAS BEEN OF GREAT, GREAT INSPIRATION. I HAD DONE NO WORK OF MY OWN SINCE LAST SUMMER, WHEN I DID THE ONE HUNDRED DRAWINGS OF VANCOUVER GIRLS, CEASING ABOUT AUGUST 9TH. BUT WHEN …

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Artist: Dennis Burton (1933 – 2013, Canadian)

Title: Dear Jon

Date: 1981

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 58.45 x 43.2 cm

Description: Letter to Jon in black india ink. “454 EAST 8TH AVE APT 204VANCOUVER BCV5T 1S7, 4:20PM, APRIL 5/81DEAR JON:YOUR EPIC POEM HAS BEEN OF GREAT, GREAT INSPIRATION. I HAD DONE NO WORK OF MY OWN SINCE LAST SUMMER, WHEN I DID THE ONE HUNDRED DRAWINGS OF VANCOUVER GIRLS, CEASING ABOUT AUGUST 9TH. BUT WHEN I HEARD YOUR KELSEY UNCALCIFIED, I FRIED! THE HEAT OF THE POWER OF THE IMAGERY PROMPTED SERIES 1 & 11, THE BEST OF WHICH ARE ENCLOSED HEREWITH. THIS IS PERHAPS NOT WHAT YOU EXPECTED, NOT WHAT YOU FORESAW, BUT IT IS MY IMMEDIATE TWO-WEEK RESPONSE TO THE WORK. I RECALLED MY DRIVE WEST THIS LAST TIME_SEPT. 1RST TO 5TH ‘79 PLUS THE RECALLS OF THE TRIPS WEST WARD AND EASTWARD = 1950 (4) 1951 (4) 1952 (4) 1953 (4) 1955 (2) 1956 (0) 1957 (4) 1958 (2) 1959 (0) 1960 (0) 1961 (2) 1962 (0) 1963 (3) 1964 (0) 1965 (0) 1966 (2) 1967 (2) 1968 (2) 1969 (2) 1970 (0) 1971 (2) 1971 (2) 1972 (2) 1973 (2) 1974 (2) 1975 (2) 1976 (2) 1977 (0) 1978 (2) 1979 (4). BY AIR * BY TRAIN * ALL THE REST BY AUTOMOBILE, VIA U.S.A, VIA CANADA, 1980 * (2) TOTAL 59 TIMES!SO SERIES 1 : 17 OF 25 AND SERIES 11: 8 OF 26. I DECIDED TO DISREGARD THE LIMITATIONS OF NUMBERS OF COLOURS.THESE WERE EXECUTED IN CHIN-CHIN AND PELIKAN INDIA INK IN PR. PH MARTINS CONCENTRATED TRANSPARENT WATER COLOUR (INKS) ON CARTRIDGE PAPER 18” X 24”LOVE, WRITE SOON HENRY HNRKELSEY KLES BOOK OF : DENNIS BURTON”

Subject: Henry Kelsey; Jon Whyte; Hommage

Credit: Gift of Katherine Govier, Toronto, 2020

Catalogue Number: BuD.03.16

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Deer in snow

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Date: c. 1944

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: RuC.03.08

Description: A finely detailed drawing of a buck walking to the left, head up, feet in snow, lightly sketched trees in top left

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Title: Deer in snow

Date: c. 1944

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 21.5 x 25.0 cm

Description: A finely detailed drawing of a buck walking to the left, head up, feet in snow, lightly sketched trees in top left

Subject: animal, deer

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: RuC.03.08

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Elk head

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Date: 1939

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: RuC.03.05

Description: A finely detailed drawing of an elk head, facing to the left, head slightly tilted up

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Title: Elk head

Date: 1939

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 29.0 x 23.0 cm

Description: A finely detailed drawing of an elk head, facing to the left, head slightly tilted up

Subject: animal, elk; Wapiti

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: RuC.03.05

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Exceptional Fault

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Artist: Robert J. Hope (1948 – 2023, Canadian)

Date: 1978

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: HoR.03.05

Description: Drawn from a passage by Gordon Walls for the exhibition Beyond Exceptional Pass at the Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, summer of 1978.

Artist: Robert J. Hope (1948 – 2023, Canadian)

Title: Exceptional Fault

Date: 1978

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 10.2;10.1 x 6.4;6.3 cm

Description: Drawn from a passage by Gordon Walls for the exhibition Beyond Exceptional Pass at the Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, summer of 1978.

Subject: landscape, mythological; bird; fish

Credit: Gift of Robert J. Hope, 1982

Catalogue Number: HoR.03.05

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Figures in Fading Light

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Artist: James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian)

Date: 1975

Medium: ink, Sumi, graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: SmJ.03.01

Description: Two figures, a man and a woman, are seated on grass, both are facing to the left, the woman is covered by a cloak with only her head showing, the man is behind her also facing to the left, lying down resting on his elbows, the grass is bottomn quarter of picture and finely detailed, a clear backgro…

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Artist: James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian)

Title: Figures in Fading Light

Date: 1975

Medium: ink, Sumi, graphite on paper

Dimensions: 59.6 x 82.3 cm

Description: Two figures, a man and a woman, are seated on grass, both are facing to the left, the woman is covered by a cloak with only her head showing, the man is behind her also facing to the left, lying down resting on his elbows, the grass is bottomn quarter of picture and finely detailed, a clear background behind the figures.

Subject: figure; group

Credit: Purchased from James Agrell Smith, 1978

Catalogue Number: SmJ.03.01

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Half Face in the Dark

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: marking pen on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.03.03

Description: Colour: black on white, the head of a woman, facing slightly to viewer’s right. The left side of the face is visible the right side is in total darkness. Her neck hides in the shadows also though her shoulders are white. Only the outline indicates their shape.Au verso: HALF FACE IN THE DARK

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Half Face in the Dark

Date: 1970

Medium: marking pen on paper

Dimensions: 42.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: Colour: black on white, the head of a woman, facing slightly to viewer’s right. The left side of the face is visible the right side is in total darkness. Her neck hides in the shadows also though her shoulders are white. Only the outline indicates their shape.Au verso: HALF FACE IN THE DARK

Subject: portrait; female

Credit: Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: StS.03.03

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HK series I / 2

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Artist: Dennis Burton (1933 – 2013, Canadian)

Date: 1981

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BuD.03.03

Description: Abstract. Top background is blue. Two large white shapes, one outlined with yellow and black the other outlined with orange. In the middle two large red objects.

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Artist: Dennis Burton (1933 – 2013, Canadian)

Title: HK series I / 2

Date: 1981

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 58.45 x 43.2 cm

Description: Abstract. Top background is blue. Two large white shapes, one outlined with yellow and black the other outlined with orange. In the middle two large red objects.