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- Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian) 22
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- Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian) 7
- George Clutesi (1905 – 1988, Canadian) 4
- Leonard Moore Davis (1864 – 1938, American) 3
- Unknown 3
- Alex Emond (1950 – , Canadian) 2
- Clarence Ingwall Tillenius (1913 – 2012, Canadian) 2
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- Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian) 2
- Jim Stewart (1949 – , Canadian) 2
Alpine Flower (Epilobium palustre or Epilobium ciliatum?)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.26
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.26
- Description
- A single plant fills most of the paper; a thin stem from which emanates many smaller stems with leaves; small pink flowers and buds top the stems.
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- Title
- Alpine Flower (Epilobium palustre or Epilobium ciliatum?)
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 18.0 cm
- Description
- A single plant fills most of the paper; a thin stem from which emanates many smaller stems with leaves; small pink flowers and buds top the stems.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.26
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Anemone parviflora (Alpine Anenome)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.24
- 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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- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.24
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Anemone patens (Prairie Crocus)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.22
- Date
- 1906
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.22
- Description
- A single plant and 2 cuttings, light purple flowers in various stages.
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- Title
- Anemone patens (Prairie Crocus)
- Date
- 1906
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- A single plant and 2 cuttings, light purple flowers in various stages.
- Credit
- Gift of Leonard Leacock, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.22
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Arctostaphylos uva-ursi [Bear Berry]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.35
- Date
- 1904
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.35
- Description
- A stem with spoon-shaped green leaves, two bunches of round red berries, and small bunches of urn shaped white flowers with pink tips. Date and artist monogram are in the BRC. Written on verso in pencil is [alpina?] from Field. Flowers last of May. Fruit July or August + beautiful red leaves.” at t…
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- Title
- Arctostaphylos uva-ursi [Bear Berry]
- Date
- 1904
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 16.5 cm
- Description
- A stem with spoon-shaped green leaves, two bunches of round red berries, and small bunches of urn shaped white flowers with pink tips. Date and artist monogram are in the BRC. Written on verso in pencil is [alpina?] from Field. Flowers last of May. Fruit July or August + beautiful red leaves.” at the top and “arctostaphylos uva-urs: at bottom.
- Subject
- bearberry
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.35
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Aster bigelovii (Purple Tansy Aster)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.04
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.04
- Description
- A single, thick brown stem with long green bracted leaves, is topped with a cluster of purple flowers with yellow centres.
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- Title
- Aster bigelovii (Purple Tansy Aster)
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- A single, thick brown stem with long green bracted leaves, is topped with a cluster of purple flowers with yellow centres.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.04
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Aster foliaceus (Leafy Aster)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.18
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.18
- Description
- A thick green stem comes from the centre bottom of painting spreading out near the top with smaller stems which have delicate yellow and pink flowers; 6 yellow centers with pink fringes; others are pink buds.
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- Title
- Aster foliaceus (Leafy Aster)
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- A thick green stem comes from the centre bottom of painting spreading out near the top with smaller stems which have delicate yellow and pink flowers; 6 yellow centers with pink fringes; others are pink buds.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.18
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Autumn Foothills
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacttat.12.01
- Date
- 1979
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- TaT.12.01
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- Title
- Autumn Foothills
- Date
- 1979
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 109.00 x 228.6 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Canada Council, Ottawa, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- TaT.12.01
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- 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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- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Dora Helen Mackie, Calgary, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- CmC.03.01
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- Date
- 1900 – 1965
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.03
- Description
- General colour: white, blue, orange, green on brown. A mountain with purple, blue and orange slopes on the left. A bank of green on the right and snow and rock face above and center. Vague blue and cream shadings in the sky.
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- Title
- Bow Glacier
- Date
- 1900 – 1965
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 24.0 x 30.4 cm
- Description
- General colour: white, blue, orange, green on brown. A mountain with purple, blue and orange slopes on the left. A bank of green on the right and snow and rock face above and center. Vague blue and cream shadings in the sky.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountains
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.03
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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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Campanula rotundifolia (Harebells)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.17
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.17
- Description
- Six purple flowers hang from tops of long green stems; buds and small leaves on stems; brown root and a cluster of green leaves at stem end.
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- Title
- Campanula rotundifolia (Harebells)
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- Six purple flowers hang from tops of long green stems; buds and small leaves on stems; brown root and a cluster of green leaves at stem end.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.17
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- Date
- 1988
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.05.03
- Description
- The mountain, a realistic rendering of Cascade Mountain in Banff National Park, is light blue and grey, covers most of the picture, cloudy sky top edge, foreground left is a road, to the right of road is a clump of yellow trees among some evergreens and grasses
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- Title
- Cascade
- Date
- 1988
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 42.2 x 58.1 cm
- Description
- The mountain, a realistic rendering of Cascade Mountain in Banff National Park, is light blue and grey, covers most of the picture, cloudy sky top edge, foreground left is a road, to the right of road is a clump of yellow trees among some evergreens and grasses
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Cascade Mountain
- Credit
- Gift of Janet Holly Middleton, Banff, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.05.03
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Charge of a Buffalo Cow
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsts.05.01
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- watercolour; gouache on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.01
- Description
- General colour: yellow tan, brown, with some black, white, red and orange. Mid-centre and viewer’s right is a charging bison. Above and behind it is a spotted horse and a rider who is spearing the bison. On the left side are three small red buffalo with orange centres decreasing in size, smallest b…
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- Title
- Charge of a Buffalo Cow
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- watercolour; gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 45.5 x 61.0 cm
- Description
- General colour: yellow tan, brown, with some black, white, red and orange. Mid-centre and viewer’s right is a charging bison. Above and behind it is a spotted horse and a rider who is spearing the bison. On the left side are three small red buffalo with orange centres decreasing in size, smallest being at the top. There is another small red bison with an orange centre in the upper right area.Au verso: CHARGE OF A BUFFALO COW - SARAIN STUMP - 1971
- Subject
- animal, horse
- buffalo
- figure, male
- hunting
- Credit
- Purchased from Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 1974
- Catalogue Number
- StS.05.01
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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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- 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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- 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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Cutting Out The Stragglers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacttic.02.05
- Date
- prior to 1996
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.05
- Description
- Three wolves have singled out one bison from a herd and are making an attack. The rest of the herd are running from the right side of the image to the left. The ground is covered in snow and blue in colour. The wolves have a yellow colour intergrated with brown in their fur. In the distance are tre…
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- Title
- Cutting Out The Stragglers
- Date
- prior to 1996
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60.9 x 121.9 cm
- Description
- Three wolves have singled out one bison from a herd and are making an attack. The rest of the herd are running from the right side of the image to the left. The ground is covered in snow and blue in colour. The wolves have a yellow colour intergrated with brown in their fur. In the distance are trees, bison and a few more wolves.
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.05
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Cypripedium calceolus (Yellow Lady's Slipper)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.21
- Date
- 1906
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.21
- Description
- A single plant with brown root, broad, long green leaves with a yellow flower at the top.
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- Title
- Cypripedium calceolus (Yellow Lady's Slipper)
- Date
- 1906
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- A single plant with brown root, broad, long green leaves with a yellow flower at the top.
- Subject
- botanical
- flower
- Lady’s Slipper
- Credit
- Gift of Leonard Leacock, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.21
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- Date
- 1986
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- KeI.02.04
- Description
- A farm scene with pink, grey and purple foothills behind, and dust devils in front rising to a turbulent sky. The lower one-third is the grey road lined by green on both sides through the fields; on the viewer’s left are fields in gold, green, grey, purple and brown, and on the viewer’s left of the…
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- Title
- Dust Devils
- Date
- 1986
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 122.0 x 137.0 cm
- Description
- A farm scene with pink, grey and purple foothills behind, and dust devils in front rising to a turbulent sky. The lower one-third is the grey road lined by green on both sides through the fields; on the viewer’s left are fields in gold, green, grey, purple and brown, and on the viewer’s left of the road, a red shed with a purple roof, then a white farmhouse with a purple roof, and another shed partially obscured by the dust funnel rising up to mingle with clouds in the sky. Further to the left another red building with a purple roof and to the left of that another dust funnel (dust devil) rising up to the storm clouds and sheets of weather in the sky. Three-quarters of the painting is the purple,pink and grey clouds and several storm sheets creating a large foreboding sky. Signed on the bottom left corner with the artist’s logo.
- Credit
- Gift of Johannes Thiessen, Calgary, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- KeI.02.04
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Epilobium ciliatum glandulosum (Fringed Willowherb)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.10
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.10
- Description
- One thick brown stem at the centre bottom unfurls into numerous stems covered with green leaves and a few delicate light pink/purple flowers at the topRe: au verso: tlc E. Davuricum (not MS’s writing) a circled 3, Epilobium davuricumaccording to Jennifer Royale March 2016 this is Epilobium ciliatu…
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- Title
- Epilobium ciliatum glandulosum (Fringed Willowherb)
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 18.0 cm
- Description
- One thick brown stem at the centre bottom unfurls into numerous stems covered with green leaves and a few delicate light pink/purple flowers at the topRe: au verso: tlc E. Davuricum (not MS’s writing) a circled 3, Epilobium davuricumaccording to Jennifer Royale March 2016 this is Epilobium ciliatum glandulosum (Fringed Willowherb)
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.10
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Epilobium glaberrimum (Smooth Willowherb)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactscm.05.14
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.14
- Description
- A complete plant with roots, stem and flowers; light pink/purple flowers.
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- Title
- Epilobium glaberrimum (Smooth Willowherb)
- Date
- 1903
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 17.7 cm
- Description
- A complete plant with roots, stem and flowers; light pink/purple flowers.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- ScM.05.14
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