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Along the Athabasca, Jasper National Park, Alberta

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Artist: George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: 1991

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WbG.04.032

Description: Athabasca River flows through crevasse at centre of image. Trees on cliffs at each side of river.

Artist: George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: Along the Athabasca, Jasper National Park, Alberta

Date: 1991

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 20.3 x 28.0 cm

Description: Athabasca River flows through crevasse at centre of image. Trees on cliffs at each side of river.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Jasper National Park; Athabasca River

Credit: Gift of Donna Tingley, Edmonton, 2004

Catalogue Number: WbG.04.032

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Andromeda

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Artist: Peter von Tiesenhausen (1959 – , Canadian)

Date: 1993 – 1994

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: VtP.02.01

Description: An ice floe fans out from top right, across centre, to left foreground. The mountain is in various colours with yellow dominant. Cloudy sky tlc and top.

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Artist: Peter von Tiesenhausen (1959 – , Canadian)

Title: Andromeda

Date: 1993 – 1994

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 142.2 x 218.4 cm

Description: An ice floe fans out from top right, across centre, to left foreground. The mountain is in various colours with yellow dominant. Cloudy sky tlc and top.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier

Credit: Purchased from Peter von Tiesenhausen, Demmitt, 1994

Catalogue Number: VtP.02.01

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Answering The Challenge

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

Date: 1996

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: TiC.02.07

Description: At the bl a male elk is challenging another male elk. The second elk is higher up on the side of a mountain in a grass area. Further off in the distance six female elk watch. The grass that the elk are standing on is a yellow green color and the rock in the background behind the elk is a red brown…

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

Title: Answering The Challenge

Date: 1996

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 122.0 x 182.8 cm

Description: At the bl a male elk is challenging another male elk. The second elk is higher up on the side of a mountain in a grass area. Further off in the distance six female elk watch. The grass that the elk are standing on is a yellow green color and the rock in the background behind the elk is a red brown hue. The two male elk are facing each other and both have a full set of horns. The mountains in the far distance are a grey blue color.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; animal; elk

Credit: Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996

Catalogue Number: TiC.02.07

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Aspens

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.110

Description: Colour: yellow, green. Across the bottom is grass, then a bank of yellow aspens across the main part of the picture. Above them, a hill can be seen and snowy peaks rise up behind into grey clouded sky.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Aspens

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: Colour: yellow, green. Across the bottom is grass, then a bank of yellow aspens across the main part of the picture. Above them, a hill can be seen and snowy peaks rise up behind into grey clouded sky.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.110

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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Catherine Perehudoff Fowler (1958 – , Canadian)

Date: 1993

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: PeC.05.01

Description: The glacier is centred top, flowing down to the foreground, flanked on both sides by the mountain in colours of brown, yellow, grey, green. The light blue sky is cloudy.

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Artist: Catherine Perehudoff Fowler (1958 – , Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1993

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 56.0 x 76.0 cm

Description: The glacier is centred top, flowing down to the foreground, flanked on both sides by the mountain in colours of brown, yellow, grey, green. The light blue sky is cloudy.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier; Athabasca

Credit: Purchased from Catherine Perehudoff Fowler, Saskatoon, 1994

Catalogue Number: PeC.05.01

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Autumn Evening, 1958

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1958

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.60

Description: Cloudy, moonlit scene, mountains in background stretch across image, Bow Lake at the foot of the mountains in the foreground. In the immediate foreground at the bottom of the image is the shore of the lake, a few trees on it. At the centre left of the image, a line of trees on the bank extends i…

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Autumn Evening, 1958

Date: 1958

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: Cloudy, moonlit scene, mountains in background stretch across image, Bow Lake at the foot of the mountains in the foreground. In the immediate foreground at the bottom of the image is the shore of the lake, a few trees on it. At the centre left of the image, a line of trees on the bank extends in towards the middle of the image.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Bow Lake

Credit: Gift of James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 2000

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.60

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Avalanche Slope

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Artist: Rick Nicholas de Grandmaison (1932 – 1985, Canadian)

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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Artist: Rick Nicholas de Grandmaison (1932 – 1985, Canadian)

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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Bar Pin

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Date: 1875 – 1910

Material: metal

Catalogue Number: 103.01.0189

Description: A gold, snake-like, dragon tied in a knot. Cast bronze dragon in high relief with minute detail, scales, teeth, facial features , coiled round into knot with one foot extended forward, and tail behind. Spikes along back. Long pin spike soldered to flat plate at tail end, hinges to fasten beneath lo…

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Title: Bar Pin

Date: 1875 – 1910

Material: metal

Dimensions: 1.5 x 0.8 x 4.9 cm

Description: A gold, snake-like, dragon tied in a knot. Cast bronze dragon in high relief with minute detail, scales, teeth, facial features , coiled round into knot with one foot extended forward, and tail behind. Spikes along back. Long pin spike soldered to flat plate at tail end, hinges to fasten beneath locking barrel clasp at other end.

Subject: Whyte home; households; adornment; animal; dragon; Japanese; Edward S. Morse

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

Catalogue Number: 103.01.0189

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Barrier Lake

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1952

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.375

Description: The blue lake in the center of this image is surrounded by green trees. Behind the lake the mountains are partically covered with trees and some are light brown in color with no trees. The sky above the lake and mountains is pale blue with some white clouds. The foreground area has a road that begi…

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Barrier Lake

Date: 1952

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.3 cm

Description: The blue lake in the center of this image is surrounded by green trees. Behind the lake the mountains are partically covered with trees and some are light brown in color with no trees. The sky above the lake and mountains is pale blue with some white clouds. The foreground area has a road that begins on the left and follows threw to the right, with a dip down in the bottom center area.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; Barrier Lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.375

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Beaded Necklace

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Date: 1950 – 1965

Material: skin; plastic; claw

Catalogue Number: 103.01.0051

Description: A necklace strung on a buckskin thong, black bear claws and hairpipes alternating on the lowermost portion (when worn), blue, yellow and purple plastic beads in yoke area.

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Title: Beaded Necklace

Date: 1950 – 1965

Material: skin; plastic; claw

Dimensions: 103. cm

Description: A necklace strung on a buckskin thong, black bear claws and hairpipes alternating on the lowermost portion (when worn), blue, yellow and purple plastic beads in yoke area.

Subject: Indigenous; beadwork; animal; bear; regalia; accessories

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

Catalogue Number: 103.01.0051

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Below Gordon Glacier

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1951

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.31

Description: Rocks and trees in foreground, mountain in silhouette behind.

Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Below Gordon Glacier

Date: 1951

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 23.0 x 18.2 cm

Description: Rocks and trees in foreground, mountain in silhouette behind.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Gordon Glacier

Credit: Purchased from Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 2004

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.31

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Big Bear Medicine

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Artist: Dale Auger (1958 – 2008, Canadian)

Date: 1998

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Catalogue Number: AuD.12.01

Description: A large painting of an Indigenous dressed as a bear. The man’s face is visible through the mouth of the bear fur that covers him. The man’s eyes are hidden by shadows. Yellow and black paint is on the rest of his face. In the claws, the man holds a wand-like stick, at the tip of which are four …

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Artist: Dale Auger (1958 – 2008, Canadian)

Title: Big Bear Medicine

Date: 1998

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 92.5 x 92.5 cm

Description: A large painting of an Indigenous dressed as a bear. The man’s face is visible through the mouth of the bear fur that covers him. The man’s eyes are hidden by shadows. Yellow and black paint is on the rest of his face. In the claws, the man holds a wand-like stick, at the tip of which are four feathers. These are in the blc of the image. On either side of the bear’s head are patches of aquamarine.

Subject: religious; Indigenous; animal; bear

Credit: Purchased from Bernie Makokis, St. Paul, 2001

Catalogue Number: AuD.12.01

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Bighorns, Banff

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Artist: Illingworth Holey Kerr (1905 – 1989, Canadian)

Date: 1950

Medium: felt pen on paper

Catalogue Number: KeI.09.01

Description: Spiral sketchbook with sketches of sheep, and groups of sheep in various poses and configurations. On cover Bighorns Banff One morning above vermillion lakes. 1950 inside back cover Above Vermillion Lakes 1955 Illingworth Kerr

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Artist: Illingworth Holey Kerr (1905 – 1989, Canadian)

Title: Bighorns, Banff

Date: 1950

Medium: felt pen on paper

Dimensions: 17.7` x 25.7 cm

Description: Spiral sketchbook with sketches of sheep, and groups of sheep in various poses and configurations. On cover Bighorns Banff One morning above vermillion lakes. 1950 inside back cover Above Vermillion Lakes 1955 Illingworth Kerr

Subject: landscape; animal; Bighorn sheep; Banff National Park

Credit: Gift of Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 1992

Catalogue Number: KeI.09.01

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Bird

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Artist: Isa Kasudluak (1917 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: 1955 – 1960

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.02

Description: Small stone bird carving. Small white circle carved for eye and slit as mouth.

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Artist: Isa Kasudluak (1917 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Bird

Date: 1955 – 1960

Dimensions: 5.0 x 5.0 x 9.4 cm

Description: Small stone bird carving. Small white circle carved for eye and slit as mouth.

Subject: animal; bird

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.02

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Bird Figurine

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Date: 1955 – 1965

Material: wood

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0112

Description: Hand- carved duck of oiled, reddish brown wood. Centre of eyes have been painted black, detailed carving throughout surface, especially neck and head. Stamps on bottom resemble "no 50" and "Jul" (July?). Heavily incised lines on wing and tail, with lighter delicate feather texture scratched over su…

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Title: Bird Figurine

Date: 1955 – 1965

Material: wood

Dimensions: 11.5 x 4.7 x 8.2 cm

Description: Hand- carved duck of oiled, reddish brown wood. Centre of eyes have been painted black, detailed carving throughout surface, especially neck and head. Stamps on bottom resemble "no 50" and "Jul" (July?). Heavily incised lines on wing and tail, with lighter delicate feather texture scratched over surface of body. Webbed feet carved in relief clutching surface of rock shaped base.

Subject: households; decorative; miniatures; craft; carving; animal; bird

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

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0112

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Bookend

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Date: 1958 – 1958

Material: wood; fibre

Catalogue Number: 102.04.0384 a,b

Description: A pair of carved bookends of mountain goats standing on blocks of wood. Goats simply carved from 4.5 cm wide block of wide grained (fir?) wood which has had the grain darkened and raised, then shellacked. Both goats are rearing slightly with their front legs on a rock. Base plinth is plain block of…

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Title: Bookend

Date: 1958 – 1958

Material: wood; fibre

Dimensions: 20.5 x 12.2 x 18.9 cm

Description: A pair of carved bookends of mountain goats standing on blocks of wood. Goats simply carved from 4.5 cm wide block of wide grained (fir?) wood which has had the grain darkened and raised, then shellacked. Both goats are rearing slightly with their front legs on a rock. Base plinth is plain block of wood 4.5 cm high which has been bevelled along the upper edges. Bases covered on bottom with green felt.

Subject: households; decorative; animal; mountain goat

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

Catalogue Number: 102.04.0384 a,b

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Bow Glacier after Sunset, August 1997

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Artist: Jewelia Margueritta Cameroon

Date: 1997 – 1998

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: CaJ.18.03

Description: A dark print of Bow Lake after sunset. Bow Lake is visible in the centre of the image. In the foreground is a shadowed grassy area with trees. Mountains and Bow Glacier are behind the lake and the sky is quite light.

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Artist: Jewelia Margueritta Cameroon

Title: Bow Glacier after Sunset, August 1997

Date: 1997 – 1998

Medium: photograph on paper

Description: A dark print of Bow Lake after sunset. Bow Lake is visible in the centre of the image. In the foreground is a shadowed grassy area with trees. Mountains and Bow Glacier are behind the lake and the sky is quite light.