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Anemone parviflora (Alpine Anenome)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.24
Description
Two plants with brown roots; large leaves; a white flower with yellow bud.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Anemone parviflora (Alpine Anenome)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25.0 x 15.0 cm
Description
Two plants with brown roots; large leaves; a white flower with yellow bud.
Subject
botanical
flower
anenome
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.24
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1931
Medium
oil on canvas on cardboard
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.025
Description
A large tree next to water.
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Bermuda
Date
1931
Medium
oil on canvas on cardboard
Dimensions
12.6 x 17.8 cm
Description
A large tree next to water.
Subject
seascape, Caribbean
botanical
tree
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.025
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Calypso bulbosa (Calypso Orchid/Pink Fairy's Slipper)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
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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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
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.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.19
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Dodecathem meadia (Shooting Star)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
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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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
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.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.09
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Eriophorum augustifolium Roth (Tassel Cottongrass)

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Artist
Mary Vaux Walcott (1860 – 1940, American)
Date
1932
Medium
lithograph on paper
Catalogue Number
WaM.04.02
Description
(a) A commerical print with tassel cottongrass on right page; 2 green stems rise from bottom edge, each has numerous tufts of cottongrass;(b) the facing page has a Tennyson poem in silver; hand written in pen: “With all good wishes for Christmas & The New Year from Mary Vaux Walcott 1932-1933”
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Artist
Mary Vaux Walcott (1860 – 1940, American)
Title
Eriophorum augustifolium Roth (Tassel Cottongrass)
Date
1932
Medium
lithograph on paper
Dimensions
25.0 x 17.0 cm
Description
(a) A commerical print with tassel cottongrass on right page; 2 green stems rise from bottom edge, each has numerous tufts of cottongrass;(b) the facing page has a Tennyson poem in silver; hand written in pen: “With all good wishes for Christmas & The New Year from Mary Vaux Walcott 1932-1933”
Subject
botanical
cottongrass
Mary Vaux Walcott
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WaM.04.02
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Erythronium grandiflorum (Glacier Lily)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
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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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
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.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.12
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Eucephalus engelmannii (Engelmann's Aster/Aster engelmannii)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1890 – 1910
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.07
Description
One green stem with green leaves, branches out near the top into 6 stems with smaller leaves, and an open, pink and yellow flower on the end.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Eucephalus engelmannii (Engelmann's Aster/Aster engelmannii)
Date
1890 – 1910
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25.0 x 17.5 cm
Description
One green stem with green leaves, branches out near the top into 6 stems with smaller leaves, and an open, pink and yellow flower on the end.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.07
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First Time Bean Pods

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Artist
Ito Sojun
Date
1885 – 1885
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
SoI.03.01
Description
This drawing features a branch which extends from the blc, starting as one branch, and reaches into the tr side of the work where it branches into three grouping of leaves. The leaves are a black ink wash. Green ink is used to depict bean pods which are growing underneath the leaves closer to the…
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Artist
Ito Sojun
Title
First Time Bean Pods
Date
1885 – 1885
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
32.0 x 33.5 cm
Description
This drawing features a branch which extends from the blc, starting as one branch, and reaches into the tr side of the work where it branches into three grouping of leaves. The leaves are a black ink wash. Green ink is used to depict bean pods which are growing underneath the leaves closer to the bottom of the branch.
Subject
botanical
bean pods
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
SoI.03.01
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1933 – 1934
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.577
Description
Painting showing an empty beach. Silhouettes of trees in the foreground. One in a set of 7 paintings from Hawaii.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Hawaiian Sunset
Date
1933 – 1934
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
12.5 x 17.6 cm
Description
Painting showing an empty beach. Silhouettes of trees in the foreground. One in a set of 7 paintings from Hawaii.
Subject
seascape
Pacific
Hawaii
botanical
trees
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.577
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Artist
Kotani (or, Odani) Kingaku
Date
1883 – 1883
Medium
drawing on paper
Catalogue Number
KiO.03.01
Description
an ink wash drawing of four leaves. There are 2 different types of leaves, one type with a stem and many branches; the other with a stem down the middle and two sides. There is writing along the rs.
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Artist
Kotani (or, Odani) Kingaku
Title
Ink Leaves
Date
1883 – 1883
Medium
drawing on paper
Dimensions
32.5 x 35.5 cm
Description
an ink wash drawing of four leaves. There are 2 different types of leaves, one type with a stem and many branches; the other with a stem down the middle and two sides. There is writing along the rs.
Subject
botanical
leaves
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KiO.03.01
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1933
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.031
Description
Tropical tree.
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Kauai, Hawaii
Date
1933
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
12.6 x 17.8 cm
Description
Tropical tree.
Subject
botanical
Lauhala trees
Hawaii
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.031
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Artist
Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)
Date
1931
Medium
woodcut on paper
Catalogue Number
PhW.04.24
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Artist
Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)
Title
Lake of the Woods
Date
1931
Medium
woodcut on paper
Dimensions
16.7 x 24.0 cm
Subject
landscape
lake
botanical
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
Catalogue Number
PhW.04.24
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Larch in Snow (Mt. Assiniboine Trip)

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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1937
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.023
Description
Yellow larch in snow.
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Larch in Snow (Mt. Assiniboine Trip)
Date
1937
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
12.6 x 17.8 cm
Description
Yellow larch in snow.
Subject
landscape
winter
botanical
larch
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.023
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1930 – 1940
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.350
Description
Thin line of green grass along bottom of painting, trc shading on the water, which is the background for all of the study, very elegantly placed larch tree in foreground with two trunks, one branches more to the right the other one branches towards the tlc, the leaves glisten with sunlight.
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Larch Trees
Date
1930 – 1940
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
22.7 x 28.0 cm
Description
Thin line of green grass along bottom of painting, trc shading on the water, which is the background for all of the study, very elegantly placed larch tree in foreground with two trunks, one branches more to the right the other one branches towards the tlc, the leaves glisten with sunlight.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
lake
botanical
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.350
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Date
1930 – 1940
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.326
Description
Two (Larch) trees with green, yellow, and orange branches, the background is a solid charcoal grey.
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Artist
Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)
Title
Larches
Date
1930 – 1940
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
17.5 x 13.0 cm
Description
Two (Larch) trees with green, yellow, and orange branches, the background is a solid charcoal grey.
Subject
botanical
larch
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyC.01.326
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Lauhala Trees, Kauai

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1933
Medium
oil on masonite
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.034
Description
Colour: blue. From a mound on the left side grow two trees; four trunks in all, numberous roots and seven slumps of grass. At the lower right in the distance, two hills can be seen. The trees reach up to the top of the picture. Blue clouded sky behind.
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Lauhala Trees, Kauai
Date
1933
Medium
oil on masonite
Dimensions
27.5 x 35 cm
Description
Colour: blue. From a mound on the left side grow two trees; four trunks in all, numberous roots and seven slumps of grass. At the lower right in the distance, two hills can be seen. The trees reach up to the top of the picture. Blue clouded sky behind.
Subject
skyscape
botanical
Hawaii
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.034
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Lobelia kalmii (Brook Lobelia)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1888
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.28
Description
A delicate painting of long green stems and long, thin leaves; with small purple flowers near top.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Lobelia kalmii (Brook Lobelia)
Date
1888
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
17.5 x 12.5 cm
Description
A delicate painting of long green stems and long, thin leaves; with small purple flowers near top.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.28
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Lonicera involucrata (Bracted Honeysuckle/Twinberry)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1890 – 1910
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.30
Description
The plant has large green leaves and twin black berries on small red leaflets. Also has a yellow flower viewer’s left.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Lonicera involucrata (Bracted Honeysuckle/Twinberry)
Date
1890 – 1910
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25.0 x 17.5 cm
Description
The plant has large green leaves and twin black berries on small red leaflets. Also has a yellow flower viewer’s left.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.30
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Lychnis apetala (Nodding Lychnis/Campion)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.27
Description
A plant with a long root that spreads widely, small leaves at lower part of stem; atop each stem is a round, ribbed bulb with purple centres; to the viewer’s left of this is a smaller drawing of the same kind of plant with 2 stems and flowers.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Lychnis apetala (Nodding Lychnis/Campion)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
24.5 x 17.5 cm
Description
A plant with a long root that spreads widely, small leaves at lower part of stem; atop each stem is a round, ribbed bulb with purple centres; to the viewer’s left of this is a smaller drawing of the same kind of plant with 2 stems and flowers.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.27
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Artist
Okamoto Keiki
Date
1884 – 1884
Medium
drawing on paper
Catalogue Number
KeO.03.01
Description
A branch of a magnolia tree enters the page at the blc and stretches up towards the trc. The branch is painted with a black ink. On the branch, magnolia flowers (2) and magnolia buds (3) reach towards the top of the page. There is light green ink on the flowers and buds, a red center is visible …
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Artist
Okamoto Keiki
Title
Magnolia
Date
1884 – 1884
Medium
drawing on paper
Dimensions
32.0 x 35.0 cm
Description
A branch of a magnolia tree enters the page at the blc and stretches up towards the trc. The branch is painted with a black ink. On the branch, magnolia flowers (2) and magnolia buds (3) reach towards the top of the page. There is light green ink on the flowers and buds, a red center is visible on the flower closest to the left. The buds are painted with a mid-tone of brown.
Subject
botanical
magnolia
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KeO.03.01
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