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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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Aspens near Muleshoe Lake

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

Date: 1945 – 1965

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.389

Description: The foreground is a hill in colours of autumn, yellow and brown with green coniferous trees. In the background is a mountain range, blue with green trees on the lower slopes in the centre of the picture.

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

Title: Aspens near Muleshoe Lake

Date: 1945 – 1965

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.3 cm

Description: The foreground is a hill in colours of autumn, yellow and brown with green coniferous trees. In the background is a mountain range, blue with green trees on the lower slopes in the centre of the picture.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; autumn

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.389

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Autumn Foothills

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Artist: Takao Tanabe (1926 – , Canadian)

Date: 1979

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Catalogue Number: TaT.12.01

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Artist: Takao Tanabe (1926 – , Canadian)

Title: Autumn Foothills

Date: 1979

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 109.00 x 228.6 cm

Subject: landscape; foothills; prairies

Credit: Gift of Canada Council, Ottawa, 1979

Catalogue Number: TaT.12.01

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Autumn in the Canadian Rockies

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1944 – 1962

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.03

Description: More than half the painting is a lake with the reflection of fall trees, yellow and green, and a mountain range behind. The top half is yellow aspens and evergreens on lakeshore and blue, purple, grey and white mountains with a light blue sky.

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Autumn in the Canadian Rockies

Date: 1944 – 1962

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.2 x 50.5 cm

Description: More than half the painting is a lake with the reflection of fall trees, yellow and green, and a mountain range behind. The top half is yellow aspens and evergreens on lakeshore and blue, purple, grey and white mountains with a light blue sky.

Subject: Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

Credit: Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.03

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Bow Glacier, Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.507

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Glacier, Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.3 x 30.1 cm

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

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.507

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Bow Glacier, Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.520

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Glacier, Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.3 cm

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

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.520

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Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.522

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.5 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.522

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Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.523

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35.1 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.523

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Bow Pass, Early Morning

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.04

Description: General colour: blue, brown on grey. Lower third is blue and brown rocks surrounding a pool of water lower center. Up the left side rises a warm brown rock face. The sky is the grey of the paper and fills the upper right half.

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Bow Pass, Early Morning

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 29.1 x 38.0 cm

Description: General colour: blue, brown on grey. Lower third is blue and brown rocks surrounding a pool of water lower center. Up the left side rises a warm brown rock face. The sky is the grey of the paper and fills the upper right half.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.04

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Bow Summit Meadows

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.521

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Summit Meadows

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; meadow

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.521

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Bow Valley, Canmore, Alberta

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1944 – 1962

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.11

Description: Bottom third of painting is a wide expanse of water with reflections of the mountains and riverbank. The water narrows mid-centre and has green reflections of treelined riverbank. The top half is grey, blue and white mountains with cloudy sky.

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Bow Valley, Canmore, Alberta

Date: 1944 – 1962

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 38.0 x 45.8 cm

Description: Bottom third of painting is a wide expanse of water with reflections of the mountains and riverbank. The water narrows mid-centre and has green reflections of treelined riverbank. The top half is grey, blue and white mountains with cloudy sky.

Subject: Canadian Rockies; mountain; river

Credit: Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.11

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Canadian Dominion

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1944 – 1962

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.10

Description: Blue, white and brown and green mountains dominate the painting. Snow capped peaks meet a blue and grey sky. Foreground is white, green and grey, late fall or early winter, strokes of of gree to the left for trees, a road centre and turning left. Right middle is blue, green and brown strokes and al…

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Canadian Dominion

Date: 1944 – 1962

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 33.0 x 40.5 cm

Description: Blue, white and brown and green mountains dominate the painting. Snow capped peaks meet a blue and grey sky. Foreground is white, green and grey, late fall or early winter, strokes of of gree to the left for trees, a road centre and turning left. Right middle is blue, green and brown strokes and also to the right trees climbing up a small ridge.

Subject: Canadian Rockies; mountain

Credit: Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.10

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Cathedral Mountain

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.23

Description: General colour: grey, blue, black. Dead burnt trees stand on slightly regrown earth at the bottom of the picture. Behind is a mountain with snow slopes and blue cliffs. The upper two thrids is rain clouds. Rain falls center and at the right in the distance.

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 34.2 x 41.8 cm

Description: General colour: grey, blue, black. Dead burnt trees stand on slightly regrown earth at the bottom of the picture. Behind is a mountain with snow slopes and blue cliffs. The upper two thrids is rain clouds. Rain falls center and at the right in the distance.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.23

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Cathedral Mountain

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.511

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.4 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.511

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Charge of a Buffalo Cow

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

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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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

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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Chief George McLean

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.062

Description: A front facing portrait of Chief George McLean (Walking Buffalo) in full regalia, including a large headdress, orange beaded shirt, and blue belt.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Chief George McLean

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.5 x 63.0 cm

Description: A front facing portrait of Chief George McLean (Walking Buffalo) in full regalia, including a large headdress, orange beaded shirt, and blue belt.

Subject: portrait; male; Indigenous; costumes

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.062

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Consolation Valley

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.01

Description: General colour: blue, green, brown. Grass and a clump of fur trees are in the lower right area. Water is in the lower left area. Trees on the far shore at the left side. The blue mountain sweeps up from the water at center reaching the upper edge and clouds in the blue sky.

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Consolation Valley

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 48.2 x 37.3 cm

Description: General colour: blue, green, brown. Grass and a clump of fur trees are in the lower right area. Water is in the lower left area. Trees on the far shore at the left side. The blue mountain sweeps up from the water at center reaching the upper edge and clouds in the blue sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of W. (Mrs.) B. Milne, Nanaimo, 1969

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.01

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The Contest

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

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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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

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