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Figures in Fading Light
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- Date
- 1975
- Medium
- ink, Sumi, graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SmJ.03.01
- Description
- Two figures, a man and a woman, are seated on grass, both are facing to the left, the woman is covered by a cloak with only her head showing, the man is behind her also facing to the left, lying down resting on his elbows, the grass is bottomn quarter of picture and finely detailed, a clear backgro…
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- Title
- Figures in Fading Light
- Date
- 1975
- Medium
- ink, Sumi, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 59.6 x 82.3 cm
- Description
- Two figures, a man and a woman, are seated on grass, both are facing to the left, the woman is covered by a cloak with only her head showing, the man is behind her also facing to the left, lying down resting on his elbows, the grass is bottomn quarter of picture and finely detailed, a clear background behind the figures.
- Credit
- Purchased from James Agrell Smith, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- SmJ.03.01
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Freelance and loose writing, comics
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54486
- Scope & Content
- File consists of textual records pertaining to trips led by the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies. Includes an annotated skit performed on a 1982 trail ride, drafts of possible content for newsletters, freelance writing samples, and accounts of specific trail rides. Most items list author(s) and…
- Date Range
- [1970-1980]
- 1982-1984
- 1986
- 1992-1993
- 1999
- 2003
- 2005-2008
- Reference Code
- M545 / II / 19
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Private record
- Drawing
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M545 / V635
- Series
- M545 / II : Members, Staff and Personal Records
- Sous-Fonds
- M545
- Accession Number
- 8235
- Reference Code
- M545 / II / 19
- Date Range
- [1970-1980]
- 1982-1984
- 1986
- 1992-1993
- 1999
- 2003
- 2005-2008
- Physical Description
- 2 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of textual records pertaining to trips led by the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies. Includes an annotated skit performed on a 1982 trail ride, drafts of possible content for newsletters, freelance writing samples, and accounts of specific trail rides. Most items list author(s) and date. File also includes several annotated sketches depicting trail riders.
- Notes
- File contains duplicates which have been attached to each other
- Name Access
- Fedder, Zelda
- Vale, Don
- Howard, Christine
- Sharp, Thelma
- Levy, Joanne
- Brown, Brenda
- Bauer, Rebecca
- Orr, Dennis
- Wallace, Don
- Reid, Janice
- Elphinstone, Michelle
- Dallimore, Karen
- Godderis, Rick
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Banff
- Clearwater
- Wonder Pass
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Metal staples removed from numerous items
- Category
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Half Face in the Dark
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsts.03.03
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- marking pen on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.03.03
- Description
- Colour: black on white, the head of a woman, facing slightly to viewer’s right. The left side of the face is visible the right side is in total darkness. Her neck hides in the shadows also though her shoulders are white. Only the outline indicates their shape.Au verso: HALF FACE IN THE DARK
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- Title
- Half Face in the Dark
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- marking pen on paper
- Dimensions
- 42.0 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white, the head of a woman, facing slightly to viewer’s right. The left side of the face is visible the right side is in total darkness. Her neck hides in the shadows also though her shoulders are white. Only the outline indicates their shape.Au verso: HALF FACE IN THE DARK
- Credit
- Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- StS.03.03
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- Date
- 1977
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.05.07
- Description
- Small landscape (5.5x6.5) in molded plastic frame; top two thirds is sky near horizon medium blue deepening to very dark at top of picture; foreground has various shapes indicating hills and fields of colours ranging in the light browns and greens to white.
- Title
- Hill Slipped
- Date
- 1977
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 8.8 x 8.8 cm
- Description
- Small landscape (5.5x6.5) in molded plastic frame; top two thirds is sky near horizon medium blue deepening to very dark at top of picture; foreground has various shapes indicating hills and fields of colours ranging in the light browns and greens to white.
- Credit
- Purchased from Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, 1990
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.05.07
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Illustrations by [Albert?] Roberge
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions57443
- Part Of
- Jim Brewster family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of two illustrations by A. Roberge [possibly Albert Roberge of Banff/Edmonton, 1933-2012]. One illustration depicts two mountain goats standing by a steep rock face; other illustration is titled "The Rapids" and depicts a coureur de bois travelling through a river in a Hudson's Bay Co…
- Date Range
- [ca.1960-1980]
- Reference Code
- M436 / VI / 4
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Drawing
- Part Of
- Jim Brewster family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M436
- V90
- Series
- M436 / VI : Later acquisitions
- Sous-Fonds
- M436
- Accession Number
- 2023.09
- Reference Code
- M436 / VI / 4
- GMD
- Drawing
- Responsibility
- Produced by [Albert?] Roberge
- Date Range
- [ca.1960-1980]
- Physical Description
- 2 illustrations: pencil and ink on paper
- Scope & Content
- File consists of two illustrations by A. Roberge [possibly Albert Roberge of Banff/Edmonton, 1933-2012]. One illustration depicts two mountain goats standing by a steep rock face; other illustration is titled "The Rapids" and depicts a coureur de bois travelling through a river in a Hudson's Bay Company canoe.
- Subject Access
- Art
- Animals
- Canoes and canoeing
- Mountain Goat
- Wildlife
- Hudson's Bay Company
- Language
- English
- Category
- Arts
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Illustrations by Ben and Will Gadd
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions56254
- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of drawings produced by Will Gadd as a child, ca.1968-1972; and caricatures and other drawings, possibly by Ben Gadd, from the same time period.
- Date Range
- [ca.1968-1972]
- Reference Code
- M590 / I / D / 20
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Drawing
- Part Of
- Ben Gadd fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M590
- V810
- S61
- Series
- M590 / I : Personal records
- Sous-Fonds
- M590
- Sub-Series
- M590 / I / D : Other personal and collected
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Reference Code
- M590 / I / D / 20
- GMD
- Drawing
- Date Range
- [ca.1968-1972]
- Physical Description
- 0.1 cm loose drawings
- Scope & Content
- File consists of drawings produced by Will Gadd as a child, ca.1968-1972; and caricatures and other drawings, possibly by Ben Gadd, from the same time period.
- Material Details
- Illustrations consist of different media, including graphite pencils, pens, pencil crayons, markers and paint.
- Name Access
- Gadd, Ben
- Gadd, Will
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Art
- Children
- Family and personal life
- Language
- English
- Category
- Arts
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Insect Warrior
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacthor.03.03
- Date
- 1974
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HoR.03.03
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- Title
- Insect Warrior
- Date
- 1974
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.6 x 11.6 cm
- Subject
- insect
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- HoR.03.03
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- felt pen on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StS.03.05
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Central to the picture are six men entangled in an attempt to retrieve a ball from one of them. Two men have head bands only five lacrosse sticks are evident. In the background to the left are five more players - to the right are three players and in the centre one is holdi…
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- Title
- Lacrosse Game
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- felt pen on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.8 x 45.0 cm
- Description
- Colour: black on white. Central to the picture are six men entangled in an attempt to retrieve a ball from one of them. Two men have head bands only five lacrosse sticks are evident. In the background to the left are five more players - to the right are three players and in the centre one is holding his lacrosse net over his head.Au verso “LACROSSE GAME” trhc K.64 below encircled “112” brhc encircled “40” topped by encircled “3” vestiges of earlier drawing.
- Subject
- figure, group
- activity, lacrosse
- Credit
- Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- StS.03.05
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- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.05.07
- Description
- A watercolour depicting a mountain landscape, with a lake below (Lake O’Hara), painted in a very loose and free style. The bottom third is a blue lake with grey and white reflections from the banks, mountains, talus slopes, and trees above. The mid two-thirds depicts sparse trees, trail, and slopes…
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- Title
- Lake O’Hara
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 55.0 x 71.0 cm
- Description
- A watercolour depicting a mountain landscape, with a lake below (Lake O’Hara), painted in a very loose and free style. The bottom third is a blue lake with grey and white reflections from the banks, mountains, talus slopes, and trees above. The mid two-thirds depicts sparse trees, trail, and slopes to the left, waterfalls (Seven Veils), snow-covered mountain with glacier in the background (Mt. Oesa), mid-to-far right a mountain in varying shades of grey rising to almost the top of the painting (Opabin Mountain). Top portion blue sky with clouds. The extreme bottom and right hand side is left mostly unpainted.Signed, in script, blue watercolour paint bottom right hand corner “Middleton 78”. The lake bleeds into the signature.
- Credit
- Purchased from Willock & Sax, 2013
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.05.07
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.01
- Description
- General colour: red, yellow, blue, black on white - equal portions. A single figure showing a force looking right, above that a fish looking left and above that a bird, wings spread, and legs coming down, looking right. Symbolic meanings - mother and child on her back, fish with eggs and an eagle -…
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- Artist
- Brian Joseph Grandbois
- Title
- LIfe Cycle
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- acrylic on paper
- Dimensions
- 152 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: red, yellow, blue, black on white - equal portions. A single figure showing a force looking right, above that a fish looking left and above that a bird, wings spread, and legs coming down, looking right. Symbolic meanings - mother and child on her back, fish with eggs and an eagle - all powerful symbols.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
- Catalogue Number
- GrB.12.01
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.02
- Description
- General colour: black on white. A whale going to the left. A long feather shape comes down from behind the tail.
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- Title
- Mahuk
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: black on white. A whale going to the left. A long feather shape comes down from behind the tail.
- Subject
- mythological
- Credit
- Purchased from Unknown, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- ClG.03.02
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- Date
- prior to 1990
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.03.03
- Description
- A mink is sitting by a waters edge. The water is not drawn but suggested by the grass and the ground that has been drawn in around the mink. The mink is the darkest image within the drawing.
- Title
- Mink By Water
- Date
- prior to 1990
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.7 x 30.6 cm
- Description
- A mink is sitting by a waters edge. The water is not drawn but suggested by the grass and the ground that has been drawn in around the mink. The mink is the darkest image within the drawing.
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.03.03
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- Date
- prior to 1990
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.03.04
- Description
- Standing facing the viewer this moose stands with its legs strong and spaced wide. The moose looks as if it was just frightened and is ready to take off in a different direction.
- Title
- Moose
- Date
- prior to 1990
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.8 x 23.0 cm
- Description
- Standing facing the viewer this moose stands with its legs strong and spaced wide. The moose looks as if it was just frightened and is ready to take off in a different direction.
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.03.04
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Moose Cow and Calf
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- Date
- prior to 1990
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.03.05
- Description
- Standing with its back to the viewer this calf looks to the left toward it's mother that is in the upper left corner of the image. Around the feet of the calf some grass is drawn in. Around the feet and body of the older moose in the distance there is grass and the suggestion of some trees and grou…
- Title
- Moose Cow and Calf
- Date
- prior to 1990
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 23.0 x 33.2 cm
- Description
- Standing with its back to the viewer this calf looks to the left toward it's mother that is in the upper left corner of the image. Around the feet of the calf some grass is drawn in. Around the feet and body of the older moose in the distance there is grass and the suggestion of some trees and ground.
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.03.05
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Mount Assiniboine
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- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.05.02
- Description
- The tip of Mount Assiniboine is in cloud; the sky is cloudy with pink and light yellow to the right and light blue/green to the left; there is quite a bit of snow but the mountain to the right is green and the mountain on the left is in the purple/green range. A blue/green lake is in the immediate …
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- Title
- Mount Assiniboine
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 42.2 x 58.1 cm
- Description
- The tip of Mount Assiniboine is in cloud; the sky is cloudy with pink and light yellow to the right and light blue/green to the left; there is quite a bit of snow but the mountain to the right is green and the mountain on the left is in the purple/green range. A blue/green lake is in the immediate foreground.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.05.02
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Mount Temple, Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsij.05.09
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.09
- Description
- Colour: blue, green, brown. Lower half is water on the left and a brown shore in the lower right corner. Yellow grass grows at the left side of the far shore. Two trees go up the left side. Three go up on the right. The upper half is a mountain at center. Blue sky above.
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- Title
- Mount Temple, Canadian Rockies
- Date
- 1972
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.4 x 23.8 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, green, brown. Lower half is water on the left and a brown shore in the lower right corner. Yellow grass grows at the left side of the far shore. Two trees go up the left side. Three go up on the right. The upper half is a mountain at center. Blue sky above.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- water
- Credit
- Gift of Gus (Mrs.) Baracos, Banff, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.09
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- Date
- 1979
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SpJ.03.02
1 image
- Title
- Mountain
- Date
- 1979
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.0 x 29.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of James Spencer, 1980
- Catalogue Number
- SpJ.03.02
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- Date
- 1979
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SpJ.03.01
1 image
- Title
- Mountain
- Date
- 1979
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.5 x 22.5 cm
- Credit
- Gift of James Spencer, 1980
- Catalogue Number
- SpJ.03.01
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolor; graphite on arches paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.05.19
- Description
- Two green masses on the left and right of a brown and white road, which extends to the centre of the work to a series of mountains sketched in graphite. The top section of the image is sketched in brown and green tones.
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- Title
- Mountains Up
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- watercolor; graphite on arches paper
- Dimensions
- 30.8 x 40.4 cm
- Description
- Two green masses on the left and right of a brown and white road, which extends to the centre of the work to a series of mountains sketched in graphite. The top section of the image is sketched in brown and green tones.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.05.19
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Mt. Norquay Chairlift and Royal York Hotel Ads, Calendar Pages, Personal Sketch
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 5 colour advertising posters, 2 calendar pages, and one hand-drawn illustration. Content pertains to 'The Banff Chairlift on Mt. Norquay'; a Laurie Signs Ltd. ad with a Nicholas Morant image and metal hanger (formerly a page from a calendar, date unknown); a 'Bourne Bros.' calendar…
- Date Range
- 1913
- [ca. 1944 - ca. 1955]
- [ca. 1950 - 1960]
- Reference Code
- M300 / II / C / 6 / 1 to 8
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Poster
- Textual record
- Drawing
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M300 / S20 / V500
- Series
- M300 / II : Professional Records
- Sous-Fonds
- M300
- Sub-Series
- M300 / II / C / 6 : Promotional Items, Awards and Correspondence
- Accession Number
- 7784
- Reference Code
- M300 / II / C / 6 / 1 to 8
- Responsibility
- Produced by Nicholas Morant
- Date Range
- 1913
- [ca. 1944 - ca. 1955]
- [ca. 1950 - 1960]
- Physical Description
- 5 Posters/Advertisements, 2 Calendar Pages, 1 Illustration; colour.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 5 colour advertising posters, 2 calendar pages, and one hand-drawn illustration. Content pertains to 'The Banff Chairlift on Mt. Norquay'; a Laurie Signs Ltd. ad with a Nicholas Morant image and metal hanger (formerly a page from a calendar, date unknown); a 'Bourne Bros.' calendar dated '1913', featuring a large image of a woman named 'Berenice' on a metal hanger; 4 red and white Royal York Hotel advertising posters with cardboard attachments on back to stand upright; and an illustration addressed to Nicholas Morant (unknown artist), drawn in pencil, depicting a character covered in porcupine quills (?) with an easel, painting the message 'dere Marantz thanks 4 the encouragement'.
- Notes
- 4 Royal York Hotel posters formerly stored in individual brown paper packaging with cardboard supports inside, labelled 'Royal York Hotel Poster' on the front of each in black marker. Original packaging has been removed for conservation reasons.
- Storage Range
- In file box M300 / II / C / 6 / 1 to M300 / II / C / 6 / 8 & M300 / II / C / 6 / 70 to 72
- Subject Access
- Royal York Hotel
- Calendar
- Banff Chairlift
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Banff
- Mt. Norquay
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Access Restrictions
- Items in this file are not to be accessed or distributed without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Items in this file are not to be reproduced without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Items must be stored using acid-free paper and / or mylar sheets to protect them from surface damage. Items must be stored in appropriate conditions.
- Creator
- Nicholas Morant
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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