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Boats in Harbour

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1885

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.289

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Boats in Harbour

Date: c. 1885

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 8 x 19 cm

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.289

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Packhorse with Pram

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Artist: Peggy Dixon

Date: 1985

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: DiP.03.06

Description: A horse walks in full body profile across the centre of the image. A rock is in the bottom right of the corner. A pram is upside down on the back of the horse, with the wheels in the hair, and the handle facing towards the back of the horse. Written at the bottom right “IP 40.”

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Artist: Peggy Dixon

Title: Packhorse with Pram

Date: 1985

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 30.3 x 32.3 cm

Description: A horse walks in full body profile across the centre of the image. A rock is in the bottom right of the corner. A pram is upside down on the back of the horse, with the wheels in the hair, and the handle facing towards the back of the horse. Written at the bottom right “IP 40.”

Subject: horse; pram

Credit: Gift of Peggy Dixon, Milk River, 2012

Catalogue Number: DiP.03.06

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Potty Break

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Artist: Peggy Dixon

Date: 1985

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: DiP.03.05

Description: A person in a ball cap sits in the foreground on a log, holding on to a branch. The lower body is nude, the upper body covered with a flowered blanket. In the background a person sits on horseback, holding a second horse. Foliage sits in the foreground. Rain is presented diagonally across the entir…

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Artist: Peggy Dixon

Title: Potty Break

Date: 1985

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 22 x 24 cm

Description: A person in a ball cap sits in the foreground on a log, holding on to a branch. The lower body is nude, the upper body covered with a flowered blanket. In the background a person sits on horseback, holding a second horse. Foliage sits in the foreground. Rain is presented diagonally across the entirety of the image.

Subject: nude; horse; rain

Credit: Gift of Peggy Dixon, Milk River, 2012

Catalogue Number: DiP.03.05

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Rusty Disk

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1885

Medium: graphite on paper board

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.071

Description: Drawing of a farming disc, the first few discs are show as the disappear into the piece, and the seat sits high up on the piece.“An unlikely combination of practical entrepreneur and preoccupied artist, Collings was involved with farm machinery sales between 1882 and 1888 in England. A writer who i…

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Rusty Disk

Date: c. 1885

Medium: graphite on paper board

Dimensions: 25 x 30 cm

Description: Drawing of a farming disc, the first few discs are show as the disappear into the piece, and the seat sits high up on the piece.“An unlikely combination of practical entrepreneur and preoccupied artist, Collings was involved with farm machinery sales between 1882 and 1888 in England. A writer who interviewed the artist in 1924 had the impression that Collings envisaged farm equipment as means for creating an enormous painting-like but three-dimensional “landscape.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape; machinery; machine; green; rims; circulars

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.071

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Sailboat on River

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1885

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.286

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Sailboat on River

Date: c. 1885

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 16 x 20 cm

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.286

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Sailing Barge

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1885

Medium: graphite on board

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.291

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Sailing Barge

Date: c. 1885

Medium: graphite on board

Dimensions: 19 x 28 cm

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.291

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Sailing Ships from Dartmouth

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1890

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.273

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Sailing Ships from Dartmouth

Date: c. 1890

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 26 x 20 cm

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.273

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Seashore

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1890

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.303

Description: A beach scene with horizon in distance and waves breaking on the right.

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Seashore

Date: c. 1890

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 19 x 25 cm

Description: A beach scene with horizon in distance and waves breaking on the right.

Subject: coast; landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.303

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Two-Masted Sailboat

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1885

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.287

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Two-Masted Sailboat

Date: c. 1885

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 12.5 x 19 cm

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.287

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Untitled [Mountains]

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1982

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.17

Description: Graphite drawing of mountains. Dark rounded shapes at bottom. Lighter, vertical peaks at the top. Beginning of drawing on verso.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled [Mountains]

Date: 1982

Medium: graphite on paper

Description: Graphite drawing of mountains. Dark rounded shapes at bottom. Lighter, vertical peaks at the top. Beginning of drawing on verso.

Subject: abstract; landscape; mountains

Credit: Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2003

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.17

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Warden’s Wife Hoisting Pack Box

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Artist: Peggy Dixon

Date: 1985

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: DiP.03.01

Description: At the centre of the image a woman stands with her back to the viewer, adjusting a pack box onto the side of a horse. The horse faces to the right. The legs and hat of a person is visible behind the horse. At the bottom corner “IP 39 Cover.”

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Artist: Peggy Dixon

Title: Warden’s Wife Hoisting Pack Box

Date: 1985

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 30.3 x 38 cm

Description: At the centre of the image a woman stands with her back to the viewer, adjusting a pack box onto the side of a horse. The horse faces to the right. The legs and hat of a person is visible behind the horse. At the bottom corner “IP 39 Cover.”