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Alpine Valley near Manson Creek, B.C.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.53

Description: see photobrhc E.L. 1959”

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Alpine Valley near Manson Creek, B.C.

Date: 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 13.9 x 18.0 cm

Description: see photobrhc E.L. 1959”

Subject: landscape; mountains; valley; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.53

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Athabasca Glacier Station 2

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Artist: Gennadiy Ivanov

Date: ca. 2019 – 2019

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: IvG.03.01

Description: Landscape pastel drawing with a colour palette made up of purples, blues, and soft peach. in the background there are glaciers or mountains. In the middle ground, just slightly off to the right, there is a weather station composed of black and blue pastel. in the foreground are vertical lines of pu…

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Artist: Gennadiy Ivanov

Title: Athabasca Glacier Station 2

Date: ca. 2019 – 2019

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 50.0 x 65.0 x 50.0 cm

Description: Landscape pastel drawing with a colour palette made up of purples, blues, and soft peach. in the background there are glaciers or mountains. In the middle ground, just slightly off to the right, there is a weather station composed of black and blue pastel. in the foreground are vertical lines of purple, white, and blue, that represent patterns of the glaciers.

Subject: Glaciers; weather stations; climate change; pastel; mountains; Athabasca.

Credit: Gift of Gennadiy Ivanov, Norwich, Norfolk , UK, 2023

Catalogue Number: IvG.03.01

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Banff Springs Hotel, Rocky Mountains 1887

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Artist: C. Firth

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: FiC.05.01

Description: Scene showing Banff springs hotel at right perched on a hillside. In the background the Bow River winds through a valley between Tunnel Mountain and Mt. Roundly. More mountains in distance. Trees in foreground. My. Roundly is hazy, almost unfinished in appearance.

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Artist: C. Firth

Title: Banff Springs Hotel, Rocky Mountains 1887

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 12.0 x 16.0 cm

Description: Scene showing Banff springs hotel at right perched on a hillside. In the background the Bow River winds through a valley between Tunnel Mountain and Mt. Roundly. More mountains in distance. Trees in foreground. My. Roundly is hazy, almost unfinished in appearance.

Subject: mountains; Banff; Bow River; Alberta; Banff Springs Hotel

Credit: Gift of Dorothy and Jim McLeod, Calgary, 2021

Catalogue Number: FiC.05.01

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Bow Lake Boler

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Artist: Colin Smith (1963 – , Canadian)

Date: 2013

Medium: camera obscura on acid-free fibre paper

Catalogue Number: SmC.18.02

Description: Coloured image of boler interior. browns, greens and blues colour the walls with a projected image of the exterior surroundings. Two windows appear to show the exterior landscape. Landscape is a mountainous terrain with large body of water and some ever green trees. Interior furniture includes two …

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Artist: Colin Smith (1963 – , Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake Boler

Date: 2013

Medium: camera obscura on acid-free fibre paper

Dimensions: 121.92 x 152.4 cm

Description: Coloured image of boler interior. browns, greens and blues colour the walls with a projected image of the exterior surroundings. Two windows appear to show the exterior landscape. Landscape is a mountainous terrain with large body of water and some ever green trees. Interior furniture includes two benches, fold down table and box in bottom right corner. The table holds an unfolded map, some books and a mug. The reflected image on the walls is projected upside down because it is done using a camera obscura technique. This print belongs to the 76 Boler series. “Nearly true stories of a wandering 76 Boler”

Subject: mountains; Bow Lake; camera obscura; boler

Credit: Gift of Colin Smith , Calgary , 2018

Catalogue Number: SmC.18.02

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Bow River NWT, 1887

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Artist: C. Firth

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: FiC.05.02

Description: Large river [The Bow River] with snow-capped mountains at back and stands of conifers on the banks. River winds from left foreground into right background. Stand of trees at right foreground.

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Artist: C. Firth

Title: Bow River NWT, 1887

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 12.0 x 16.0 cm

Description: Large river [The Bow River] with snow-capped mountains at back and stands of conifers on the banks. River winds from left foreground into right background. Stand of trees at right foreground.

Subject: mountains; Banff; Bow River; Alberta

Credit: Gift of Dorothy and Jim McLeod, Calgary, 2021

Catalogue Number: FiC.05.02

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The Canadian Pacific Railway

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Artist: William Notman (1826 – 1891)

Date: 1886

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: NoW.04.02

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Artist: William Notman (1826 – 1891)

Title: The Canadian Pacific Railway

Date: 1886

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 40 x 28.2 cm

Subject: landscape; mountains; CPR

Credit: Purchased from Prints Old and Rare, San Francisco, USA, 1979

Catalogue Number: NoW.04.02

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Canyons Of Muskwa, Northern B.C.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1970

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.04

Description: General colour: green, blue, brown. Boulders and rock face rise up on left and right side. Water winds up from bottom center towards left side and disappears around the bend. Blue and white mountains peek over the foreround rocks. Beyond is clouded blue sky.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Canyons Of Muskwa, Northern B.C.

Date: prior to 1970

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 30.5 x 46.7 cm

Description: General colour: green, blue, brown. Boulders and rock face rise up on left and right side. Water winds up from bottom center towards left side and disappears around the bend. Blue and white mountains peek over the foreround rocks. Beyond is clouded blue sky.

Subject: landscape; mountains; river, Muskwa; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.04

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Cave and Basin

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Artist: Tom Lonsdale (1886 – 1975, Canadian)

Date: c. 1955

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: LoT.02.02

Description: Tom Lonsdale was the United Church Minister, for many years, in Banff; he took painting lessons from Pete Whyte circa 1950; Catharine purchased LoT.02.02 through LoT.02.04 at a United Church rummage sale, for $3.00 each, in 1975. Tom Lonsdale spent some years in a Calgary rest home and died 1975.

Artist: Tom Lonsdale (1886 – 1975, Canadian)

Title: Cave and Basin

Date: c. 1955

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35.4 cm

Description: Tom Lonsdale was the United Church Minister, for many years, in Banff; he took painting lessons from Pete Whyte circa 1950; Catharine purchased LoT.02.02 through LoT.02.04 at a United Church rummage sale, for $3.00 each, in 1975. Tom Lonsdale spent some years in a Calgary rest home and died 1975.

Subject: landscape; mountains; architecture

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

Catalogue Number: LoT.02.02

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Finlay Forks, B.C.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1951

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.44

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Finlay Forks, B.C.

Date: 1951

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.9 x 30.4 cm

Subject: landscape; mountains; river, Finlay; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.44

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Fraser River Above Lillooet, B.C.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1950

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.64

Description: A choppy river running between rocky banks viewer’s left, rocks and sparse trees and vegetation viewer’s right, mountains in middle, cloudy sky overhead.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Fraser River Above Lillooet, B.C.

Date: 1950

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 39.4 x 56.5 cm

Description: A choppy river running between rocky banks viewer’s left, rocks and sparse trees and vegetation viewer’s right, mountains in middle, cloudy sky overhead.

Subject: landscape; mountains; river, Fraser; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.64

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Hector Lake, Kicking Horse Pass, BC

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.07

Description: Mountain landscape with large glassy lake in centre of painting. Abstract foliage and stand of dead trees in foreground at right. Brown treed slopes on opposite shore with large snow-capped mountains in distance. Small white and red buildings on far shore of lake. Title written in bottom left corne…

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Title: Hector Lake, Kicking Horse Pass, BC

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 32.8 x 48.0 cm

Description: Mountain landscape with large glassy lake in centre of painting. Abstract foliage and stand of dead trees in foreground at right. Brown treed slopes on opposite shore with large snow-capped mountains in distance. Small white and red buildings on far shore of lake. Title written in bottom left corner. “F.M. Bell-Smith 1887” at bottom right.

Subject: mountains; lake; CPR

Credit: Gift of Mark Cullen, 2021

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.07

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Horseman

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Artist: Maxwell Bennett Bates (1906 – 1980, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1950

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: BaM.04.01

Description: Black and white print of a man on a horse. There is a watermark in the paper which is placed vertically along the right side of the piece it reads: “ Howard Smith Autograph”.

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Artist: Maxwell Bennett Bates (1906 – 1980, Canadian)

Title: Horseman

Date: 1950 – 1950

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 28.0 x 21.7 cm

Description: Black and white print of a man on a horse. There is a watermark in the paper which is placed vertically along the right side of the piece it reads: “ Howard Smith Autograph”.

Subject: animal; horse; figure; male; landscape; mountains; foothills

Credit: Purchased from Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 1998

Catalogue Number: BaM.04.01

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Kananaskis Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1954 – 1957

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.310

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Kananaskis Lake

Date: 1954 – 1957

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.3 x 30.2 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; mountains

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.310

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Kicking Horse Lake Looking East, Hector on the Canadian Pacific Railway

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Artist: William Notman (1826 – 1891)

Date: 1887

Medium: photographic print on paper

Catalogue Number: NoW.18.01

Description: Mountain landscape with large lake dominating the centre. A small white building and storage tank [possibly a refueling station] can be seen on the far side of the lake. Train tracks run the width of foreground and seated figure [known to be Fredrick M. Bell-Smith] at easel in bottom right corner. …

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Artist: William Notman (1826 – 1891)

Title: Kicking Horse Lake Looking East, Hector on the Canadian Pacific Railway

Date: 1887

Medium: photographic print on paper

Dimensions: 22.6 x 27.8 cm

Description: Mountain landscape with large lake dominating the centre. A small white building and storage tank [possibly a refueling station] can be seen on the far side of the lake. Train tracks run the width of foreground and seated figure [known to be Fredrick M. Bell-Smith] at easel in bottom right corner. Title typed in bottom left corner. Manufacturer’s mark “WM. NOTMAN & SON, MONTREAL” typed in bottom right.

Subject: mountains; lake; CPR; Fredrick Bell-Smith

Credit: Gift of Mark Cullen, 2021

Catalogue Number: NoW.18.01

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Landscape (Rocky Mountains)

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Artist: John Arthur Fraser (1838 – 1898, English)

Date: 1886

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: FsJ.05.01

Description: Flat body of water in foreground surrounded by plants. Large rounded snow-covered peak in background with smaller peaks behind.

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Artist: John Arthur Fraser (1838 – 1898, English)

Title: Landscape (Rocky Mountains)

Date: 1886

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 23.5 x 33.7 cm

Description: Flat body of water in foreground surrounded by plants. Large rounded snow-covered peak in background with smaller peaks behind.

Subject: mountains; Mount Baker?

Credit: Gift of Robyn L Fulton, 2023

Catalogue Number: FsJ.05.01

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Late Sun and Shadow, King’s Landing, Columbia Mountains

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Artist: Jon Goodman (1953 – , American)

Date: 2013

Medium: pigment print of prepared paper (carbon print)

Catalogue Number: GdJ.18.01

Description: black and white image of mountain ridge line

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Artist: Jon Goodman (1953 – , American)

Title: Late Sun and Shadow, King’s Landing, Columbia Mountains

Date: 2013

Medium: pigment print of prepared paper (carbon print)

Dimensions: 36.83 x 29.84 cm

Description: black and white image of mountain ridge line

Subject: mountains; Columbia Mountains; King’s Landing; peak; ridge; snow; shadow; crevasses

Credit: Gift of Jon Goodman, Williamsburg, 2017

Catalogue Number: GdJ.18.01

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Mount Assiniboine

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Artist: Tom Lonsdale (1886 – 1975, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Catalogue Number: LoT.12.04

Description: An autumn scene at Mount Assiniboine; the foreground is brightly coloured with reds, oranges, yellows; a brown mountain slopes to left; Mount Assiniboine is left centre with snow and clouds; the clouds are turbulent.

Artist: Tom Lonsdale (1886 – 1975, Canadian)

Title: Mount Assiniboine

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Dimensions: 41.6 x 50.8 cm

Description: An autumn scene at Mount Assiniboine; the foreground is brightly coloured with reds, oranges, yellows; a brown mountain slopes to left; Mount Assiniboine is left centre with snow and clouds; the clouds are turbulent.