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Niagara Falls

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

Date: c. 1923

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.36

Description: Scene looking out over the falls with bluish mist rising from the depths below, beyond the falls to the other side the landscape horizon is a mixing of reds, yellows, blues, and green.“A small, grey paint sport mars this luminous blue interpretation of the famous falls.” -- “Charles John Colling…

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

Title: Niagara Falls

Date: c. 1923

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 11 x 19.5 cm

Description: Scene looking out over the falls with bluish mist rising from the depths below, beyond the falls to the other side the landscape horizon is a mixing of reds, yellows, blues, and green.“A small, grey paint sport mars this luminous blue interpretation of the famous falls.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1983

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.36

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O’Hara

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: 1977

Medium: watercolour on board

Catalogue Number: SpB.05.01

Description: blue circle with tree trunk in the middle and mountain scene behind the tree in the circle

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: O’Hara

Date: 1977

Medium: watercolour on board

Dimensions: 20.5 x 20.5 cm

Description: blue circle with tree trunk in the middle and mountain scene behind the tree in the circle

Subject: Lake O’Hara; Spohr; tree; mountain

Credit: Gift of Michael Laub, Banff, 2016

Catalogue Number: SpB.05.01

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On the Shuswap Lake

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

Date: 1912

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.53

Description: The background of the image is dominated by a mountain range. In the centre a forest is lightly rendered. The foreground is composed of a pool of water that extends from the right of the image, and a triangle of land on the left. The image is primarily rendered in blue and green tones.

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

Title: On the Shuswap Lake

Date: 1912

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 24.5 x 36.5 cm

Description: The background of the image is dominated by a mountain range. In the centre a forest is lightly rendered. The foreground is composed of a pool of water that extends from the right of the image, and a triangle of land on the left. The image is primarily rendered in blue and green tones.

Subject: landscape; water; mountains

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.53

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The Pass

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

Date: 1915

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.04

Description: Landscape, valley in the forground with trees to the right and left, the trees to the right are coloured somewhat a purple/blue shade, and green to the left. - the valley is a pale brown almost yellow gentle slope. - in the distance is one dominant mt. and ice blue colour, and the sky above a cold …

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

Title: The Pass

Date: 1915

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 27 x 38 cm

Description: Landscape, valley in the forground with trees to the right and left, the trees to the right are coloured somewhat a purple/blue shade, and green to the left. - the valley is a pale brown almost yellow gentle slope. - in the distance is one dominant mt. and ice blue colour, and the sky above a cold blue.

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.04

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A Pastoral Between B.C. Mountains

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

Date: c. 1915

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.54

Description: This image is composed of grey, orange, and blue tones. The background of the image is composed of mountains on the left, and a dark grey sky. The centre of image is dominated by blue vertical shapes. Two brown sections sit in the centre and right foreground.

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

Title: A Pastoral Between B.C. Mountains

Date: c. 1915

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 14 x 19 cm

Description: This image is composed of grey, orange, and blue tones. The background of the image is composed of mountains on the left, and a dark grey sky. The centre of image is dominated by blue vertical shapes. Two brown sections sit in the centre and right foreground.

Subject: landscape; water; bush; mountains

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.54

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Peach Glad

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1977 – 1978

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.04

Description: Partially painted flower drawing; pencil drawn frame 18.3x12.4; blossom cluster extends beyond pencil frame; peach coloured blossoms; green stem and leaves.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Peach Glad

Date: 1977 – 1978

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 28.0 x 19.0 cm

Description: Partially painted flower drawing; pencil drawn frame 18.3x12.4; blossom cluster extends beyond pencil frame; peach coloured blossoms; green stem and leaves.

Subject: abstract

Credit: Purchased from Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, 1990

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.04

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RD MTN TWST

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1978

Medium: painting on paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.11

Description: A watercolour landscape painting. The painting is of a road winding through a mountain landscape. The image is tall and narrow. In the background there are three mountain peaks. All the mountains have simple outlines that have been done in pencil. The largest of the peaks, on the viewer’s right, ha…

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: RD MTN TWST

Date: 1978

Medium: painting on paper

Dimensions: 56.0 x 19.0 cm

Description: A watercolour landscape painting. The painting is of a road winding through a mountain landscape. The image is tall and narrow. In the background there are three mountain peaks. All the mountains have simple outlines that have been done in pencil. The largest of the peaks, on the viewer’s right, has a dark grey-blue wash near the top. The peak on the left in the background has a brown-grey wash. There is a brown-grey road that starts in the brhc and winds to the left, then disappears into the mountains about half way up the painting. Around the image there is a thin pencil line border. Under the image, at centre, is the title written in pencil, “RD MTN TWST”. In the brhc of the paper is the artist signature written in pencil and the year, “Sinclair 78”. Au verso, written in red ink in the top rhc is, “R.S. 666”.

Subject: landscape; mountain; road

Credit: Gift of David McClintock Denovan, Calgary, 2012

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.11

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Ribboned Passage

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1976

Medium: aquatec stain on canvas

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.01

Description: unpainted road into dark canyon; foreground is unpainted except for pencil drawn lines indicating a road to right of centre; 5 irregular vertical panels, narrow brown at right edge, next panel moss green, dark blue then variant rose, next panel moss green, farthest left panel greyish; left side of …

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Ribboned Passage

Date: 1976

Medium: aquatec stain on canvas

Dimensions: 35.7 x 41.0 cm

Description: unpainted road into dark canyon; foreground is unpainted except for pencil drawn lines indicating a road to right of centre; 5 irregular vertical panels, narrow brown at right edge, next panel moss green, dark blue then variant rose, next panel moss green, farthest left panel greyish; left side of painting and foreground unpainted.

Subject: abstract

Credit: Purchased from Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, 1990

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.01

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The Shuswap people of British Columbia

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1891

Author: Dawson, George M

Call Number: 07.2 D32s Pam

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Author: Dawson, George M

Published Date: 1891

Physical Description: p.3-44 : ill., plan., map

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Stoney Indians

Notes: From Transactions / Royal Society of Canada, section II

Accession Number: 19000

Call Number: 07.2 D32s Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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A sprig of mountain heather : being a story of the heather and some facts about the mountain playgrounds of the Dominion

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1914

Author: Canada. Department of the Interior

Call Number: 04.1 C16s Pam

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Author: Canada. Department of the Interior

Published Date: 1914

Physical Description: 16p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alpine flora; National parks

Notes: Cover page titled: Just a sprig of mountain heather. -- Cover page has a sprig of natural pressed heather

Accession Number: 148; 184; 1509

Call Number: 04.1 C16s Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Strange Space

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1975

Medium: watercolour on arches paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.12

Description: Two watercolours framed in a diptych. Dominant colours are shades of brown, black.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Strange Space

Date: 1975

Medium: watercolour on arches paper

Dimensions: 14 x 19 cm

Description: Two watercolours framed in a diptych. Dominant colours are shades of brown, black.

Subject: landscape; mountains; diptych

Credit: Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.12

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Street Scene in Deal, England

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

Date: c. 1895

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.60

Description: Several figures move beneath an arch in the centre of the image, and are highlighted by a small section of blue background. The left and right are dominated by buildings.

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

Title: Street Scene in Deal, England

Date: c. 1895

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: Several figures move beneath an arch in the centre of the image, and are highlighted by a small section of blue background. The left and right are dominated by buildings.

Subject: landscape; figures; city; street

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.60

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A Stylized Garden

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Artist: Cathy Campbell (1960 – , Canadian)

Date: c. 1977

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CaC.05.01

Description: White lilies and purple shooting star floral picture with grass and leaves in background, on back A Styalized version of our garden

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Artist: Cathy Campbell (1960 – , Canadian)

Title: A Stylized Garden

Date: c. 1977

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 12.9 x 14.2 cm

Description: White lilies and purple shooting star floral picture with grass and leaves in background, on back A Styalized version of our garden

Subject: botanical

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

Catalogue Number: CaC.05.01

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telling them about once upon a time

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Date: 1976

Medium: painting on paper

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.10

Description: A watercolour and charcoal illustration. The illustration is of a blonde-haired woman in a yellow dress, with black stripes, leaning back in a black blanket hammock that two birds, the moon and a star are holding up by its corners. The woman’s head is leaning back on a pillow and she is holding a b…

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Title: telling them about once upon a time

Date: 1976

Medium: painting on paper

Dimensions: 37.2 x 40.5 cm

Description: A watercolour and charcoal illustration. The illustration is of a blonde-haired woman in a yellow dress, with black stripes, leaning back in a black blanket hammock that two birds, the moon and a star are holding up by its corners. The woman’s head is leaning back on a pillow and she is holding a book with a picture of a red house with the sun shining behind it. Sitting on the top corner of the book is a green frog wearing a yellow crown. At the feet of the lady reading is a group of animals listening to the story. There are four birds, a lizard, a snake and a mouse that is sitting on the head of the tallest bird. There are two mice at the bottom edge of the black blanket, one poking its head out and the other hanging off the edge. Above the storyteller and the animals are six yellow stars in a semi-circle. The first star on the left has a string tied to it attached to the blanket and the crescent moon on the right, just above the head of the storyteller, also has a string tied to it attaching to the blanket. There is a black charcoal line border around the image with a star with a blue background in each corner except the top left corner which is just blue with no star. Underneath the image is writing in pencil, in the bottom left corner, “a.p.”, the title in the centre, “telling them about once upon a time” and the artist signature and date in the bottom rhc, “patricia askren dec/76”.

Subject: storytelling; fantastical; Patricia Askren

Credit: Gift of Joanne Thomas , Vancouver, 2012

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.10

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Trestles at the Loop

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

Date: 1890

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.04

Description: Kicking Horse Pass. Train trestle bridges wind around bases of mountains in valley.Ross Peak in background.

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

Title: Trestles at the Loop

Date: 1890

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 31.0 x 47.7 cm

Description: Kicking Horse Pass. Train trestle bridges wind around bases of mountains in valley.Ross Peak in background.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Kicking Horse Pass, transportation; train; CPR

Credit: Purchased from Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 2004

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.04

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Trout Stream Quilt

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Date: 1977

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.01

Description: General colour: blue, grey on white. A striped stuffed bedspread, on which a bubbling river pours out of and over the left end. Three green fish can be seen moving up the falls.

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Title: Trout Stream Quilt

Date: 1977

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 49.3 x 49.3 cm

Description: General colour: blue, grey on white. A striped stuffed bedspread, on which a bubbling river pours out of and over the left end. Three green fish can be seen moving up the falls.

Subject: animal; mythological; craft; quilt

Credit: Purchased from Dundurn Press, 1977

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.01

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Untitled

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

Date: 1918

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.03

Description: White house in the center with 5 pink trees horizontally in line with it. Flowers below the trees, clouds above the trees, 3 marked paths between the trees.

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

Title: Untitled

Date: 1918

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 18.5 x 31.0 cm

Description: White house in the center with 5 pink trees horizontally in line with it. Flowers below the trees, clouds above the trees, 3 marked paths between the trees.

Subject: house; Robb; pink trees; childhood home

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.03

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Untitled

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

Date: 1918

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.04

Description: White house in the top centre with 3 horizontal rows of equally spaced trees. The bottom centre has 3 circles of girls in red yellow and blue dressed, 2 around trees and the centre circle around a ribbon pole. Maypole dance.

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

Title: Untitled

Date: 1918

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 23.0 x 31.0 cm

Description: White house in the top centre with 3 horizontal rows of equally spaced trees. The bottom centre has 3 circles of girls in red yellow and blue dressed, 2 around trees and the centre circle around a ribbon pole. Maypole dance.