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Artist
Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)
Date
1893
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
CoJ.02.03
Description
Scene in a forest with a stream. Overall green value of the painting, - there is a herring standing in the steam just below center at the narrowest part where the stream seems to drop to a lower level. - dark green shadows across the top of the trees where they appear to canopy the scene. - dark br…
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Artist
Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)
Title
His Haunt
Date
1893
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
45.5 x 30.5 cm
Description
Scene in a forest with a stream. Overall green value of the painting, - there is a herring standing in the steam just below center at the narrowest part where the stream seems to drop to a lower level. - dark green shadows across the top of the trees where they appear to canopy the scene. - dark brown bank to the left of the steam, and a dark green/yellow to the right of the stream.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
heron
stream
Credit
Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982
Catalogue Number
CoJ.02.03
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Artist
Robert Muskego
Date
1973
Medium
oil on board
Catalogue Number
MuR.02.02
Description
Symbolic painting on white ground with dominant, bright colours of black, yellow, blue; signed Robert Muskego '73 brc; $25.00 pencilled on back of board. Interior white fish shape contains human profile with yellow eye - fish eye also; note foot, spear and bearpaw snowshoe; fish is inside large bla…
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Artist
Robert Muskego
Title
Spirit of the Hunt
Date
1973
Medium
oil on board
Dimensions
45.5 x 35.4 cm
Description
Symbolic painting on white ground with dominant, bright colours of black, yellow, blue; signed Robert Muskego '73 brc; $25.00 pencilled on back of board. Interior white fish shape contains human profile with yellow eye - fish eye also; note foot, spear and bearpaw snowshoe; fish is inside large black animal - bear?; yellow arc upper left of painting represents bow being strung; blue represents streams and lakes and rust earth; small amount of red symbolizes blood of animal - this explanation was given to Catharine and Jon Whyte when Muskego was visiting them in Banff.
Subject
symbolism
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
MuR.02.02
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Artist
Robert Muskego
Date
1971
Medium
oil on board
Catalogue Number
MuR.02.03
Description
Three abstract geese in flight; signed Robert Muskego/71 blc. Imagery is derived from cover painting for I Am An Indian ed. Kent Carpenter, published 1967 (approx.).
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Artist
Robert Muskego
Title
Three Geese
Date
1971
Medium
oil on board
Dimensions
39.6 x 54.6 cm
Description
Three abstract geese in flight; signed Robert Muskego/71 blc. Imagery is derived from cover painting for I Am An Indian ed. Kent Carpenter, published 1967 (approx.).
Subject
animal, geese
symbolism
Indigenous
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
MuR.02.03
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Untitled (Reminiscent of an old English Village)

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Artist
Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)
Date
1931
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
CoJ.02.08
Description
A dirt road leading into a small village. Large house in center with smaller houses in the background to the left. Perspective of a viewer from the road as it leaves a wooded area and continues towards houses.
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Artist
Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)
Title
Untitled (Reminiscent of an old English Village)
Date
1931
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
63 x 75 cm
Description
A dirt road leading into a small village. Large house in center with smaller houses in the background to the left. Perspective of a viewer from the road as it leaves a wooded area and continues towards houses.
Subject
English Village
dirt road
wood
trees
houses
England
Credit
Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
Catalogue Number
CoJ.02.08
Images
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