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Artist
James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1988
Medium
woodcut on paper
Catalogue Number
SmJ.04.01
Description
Colour: black on white. Boy sitting cross legged facing out, wearing a plaid shirt dark pants, and boots holding a book in his lap which he is reading.
Artist
James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian)
Title
Boy with a Book
Date
prior to 1988
Medium
woodcut on paper
Dimensions
22.0 x 28.0 cm
Description
Colour: black on white. Boy sitting cross legged facing out, wearing a plaid shirt dark pants, and boots holding a book in his lap which he is reading.
Subject
figure
boy
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
Catalogue Number
SmJ.04.01
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Artist
Tom W. McLean (1881 – 1951, Canadian)
Date
c. 1930
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
MlT.04.04
Description
Woodblock print of Cathedral Mountain. The sky is bright yellow and is reflected in a lake at the bottom of the print. Cathedral Mountain is a hazy blue and in the distance. Dark blue, silhouetted trees at the middle of the print surround a lake that is in the immediate foreground. A brown log …
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Artist
Tom W. McLean (1881 – 1951, Canadian)
Title
Cathedral Mountain
Date
c. 1930
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
20.4 x 15.2 cm
Description
Woodblock print of Cathedral Mountain. The sky is bright yellow and is reflected in a lake at the bottom of the print. Cathedral Mountain is a hazy blue and in the distance. Dark blue, silhouetted trees at the middle of the print surround a lake that is in the immediate foreground. A brown log lies horizontally at the edge of the lake in front of the trees. Several brown rocks are poking up out of the lake.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Cathedral Mountain
lake
Credit
Gift of Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 2004
Catalogue Number
MlT.04.04
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Artist
James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian)
Date
1974
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
SmJ.04.09
Description
A black ink print on beige paper of a young child’s head and arm in 3/4 profile. The child has her eyes closed and has her arm up near her face. She is framed in an oval.
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Artist
James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian)
Title
Grand-daughter
Date
1974
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
16.0 x 12.5 cm
Description
A black ink print on beige paper of a young child’s head and arm in 3/4 profile. The child has her eyes closed and has her arm up near her face. She is framed in an oval.
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1988
Catalogue Number
SmJ.04.09
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Artist
Toyohara Kunichika
Date
1879 – 1879
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
KoT.04.02 a-c
Description
This triptych is a Kabuki Theater Poster. The first panel features two actors dressed as women. Both are holding fans and standing in front of a red background. The actor on the left is taunting the actor in the second panel who has blue hair and is wearing a white Kimono while holding a string of…
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Artist
Toyohara Kunichika
Title
Kabuki Theatre Poster
Date
1879 – 1879
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
36.0 x 73.5 cm
Description
This triptych is a Kabuki Theater Poster. The first panel features two actors dressed as women. Both are holding fans and standing in front of a red background. The actor on the left is taunting the actor in the second panel who has blue hair and is wearing a white Kimono while holding a string of beads. The background in the second panel is a deep blue with a magnolia tree and flowers and a parrot in the trc. The third panel features a third actor in a green kimono. He is facing the actor in the second panel and appears to be angry. He is holding a rope with both hands and has 2 swords in his belt. He is standing in front of a red background and a portion of the background from the second panel.
Subject
figures
male
Kabuki
activity
acting
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KoT.04.02 a-c
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Artist
Toyohara Kunichika
Date
1879 – 1879
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
KoT.04.03 a-c
Description
This Kabuki Theater Poster features 3 actors: Two playing women, and one a man. The man is in the second panel holding an elaborate sword that exits the print at the bottom of the page. He is coyly looking into the third panel where his gaze finds a coyly looking woman: Her body faces right (away…
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Artist
Toyohara Kunichika
Title
Kabuki Theatre Poster
Date
1879 – 1879
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
35.5 x 72.0 cm
Description
This Kabuki Theater Poster features 3 actors: Two playing women, and one a man. The man is in the second panel holding an elaborate sword that exits the print at the bottom of the page. He is coyly looking into the third panel where his gaze finds a coyly looking woman: Her body faces right (away from the man) but her head subtly turns to the left. A third actor is in the first panel. This woman looks into the second panel at the man she is dressed much more simply than the other two. The background is a dark solid blue, and the entire print is framed by a black and gold border.
Subject
Activity
Acting
Kabuki Theater
Figures
Women
Man
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KoT.04.03 a-c
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Kabuki Theatre Poster, Three Ninja

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Artist
Toyohara Kunichika
Date
1878
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
KoT.04.01 a-c
Description
(a)actor with sword in his mouth, holding a banner (b) 37.6 x 25.4/35.9 x 24.4 actor holding a scroll, the head of a green dragon in front of him (c) 37.5 x25.5/36.0 x 24.5 actor with clasped hands
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Artist
Toyohara Kunichika
Title
Kabuki Theatre Poster, Three Ninja
Date
1878
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
37.5 x 25.4 cm
Description
(a)actor with sword in his mouth, holding a banner (b) 37.6 x 25.4/35.9 x 24.4 actor holding a scroll, the head of a green dragon in front of him (c) 37.5 x25.5/36.0 x 24.5 actor with clasped hands
Subject
figure
activity
male
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KoT.04.01 a-c
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Artist
Tom W. McLean (1881 – 1951, Canadian)
Date
c. 1926
Medium
print on paper
Catalogue Number
MlT.04.02
Description
A woodblock print of Lake O’Hara from an elevated perspective. The shapes of the landscape are quite simple and almost geometric. In the bottom corners there are tan and green boulders outlined in dark blue. A spiney blue tree grows out of the boulders in the bottom left corner. The sloping sid…
Artist
Tom W. McLean (1881 – 1951, Canadian)
Title
Lake O’Hara
Date
c. 1926
Medium
print on paper
Description
A woodblock print of Lake O’Hara from an elevated perspective. The shapes of the landscape are quite simple and almost geometric. In the bottom corners there are tan and green boulders outlined in dark blue. A spiney blue tree grows out of the boulders in the bottom left corner. The sloping sides of the mountains in the centre are a patchwork of colours - yellow, green, orange and blue. The blue and orange side of a mountain is on the right hand side of the print.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Lake O’Hara
Credit
Purchased from Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 2003
Catalogue Number
MlT.04.02
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Meadowlark With Poem

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Artist
James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian)
Date
n.d.
Medium
print on paper
Catalogue Number
SmJ.04.10
Description
A small print of a meadowlark. The bird is perched on an object in the grass and facing right. It’s head is raised upward, and its beak is partially open. The breast of the bird has a black ring just under the neck area, and the rest of the breast has no markings. The birds back is specked with…
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Artist
James Agrell Smith (1913 – 1988, Canadian)
Title
Meadowlark With Poem
Date
n.d.
Medium
print on paper
Dimensions
10.6 x 8.7 cm
Description
A small print of a meadowlark. The bird is perched on an object in the grass and facing right. It’s head is raised upward, and its beak is partially open. The breast of the bird has a black ring just under the neck area, and the rest of the breast has no markings. The birds back is specked with lines.
Subject
animal
bird
meadowlark
Credit
Purchased from Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 1998
Catalogue Number
SmJ.04.10
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Seven Wise Women (from all eras) of Japan

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Artist
Toyohara Kunichika
Date
1877
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
KoT.04.06 a-c
Description
This tryptic features 7 wise women all described by a text panel. These panels are made from 2 portions: a white block filled with text, and a red rectangular block to the right and overlapping the white. The print is framed by a border which is black and has light blue and pink decorative bands in…
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Artist
Toyohara Kunichika
Title
Seven Wise Women (from all eras) of Japan
Date
1877
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
36.5 x 74.0 cm
Description
This tryptic features 7 wise women all described by a text panel. These panels are made from 2 portions: a white block filled with text, and a red rectangular block to the right and overlapping the white. The print is framed by a border which is black and has light blue and pink decorative bands in it. The seven women are in a room that is mostly green in colour. All the windows are closed, and blinds shut. From left to right: a woman stands reading; a woman sits at a table with scrolls on it (both women facing right); Three women in the center panel engaged in - maybe - a conversation: 2 are standing and one sitting in the middle front of them; two women in the third panel face right, the first sitting and reading, the second standing. The women are all wearing red fabric tied to the waist and flowing to their feet.
Subject
figures
women
gathering
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KoT.04.06 a-c
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Untitled Mountain Lake [Lake O’Hara]

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Artist
Tom W. McLean (1881 – 1951, Canadian)
Date
c. 1926
Medium
print on paper
Catalogue Number
MlT.04.03
Description
Woodblock print of mountain Lake O’Hara from the edge of the water. At the bottom of the print in the foreground on the left hand side is the shore of the lake. It is green with a small tan area. Dark blue cracks appear in it. In to the centre and extending into the bottom right corner is the l…
Artist
Tom W. McLean (1881 – 1951, Canadian)
Title
Untitled Mountain Lake [Lake O’Hara]
Date
c. 1926
Medium
print on paper
Description
Woodblock print of mountain Lake O’Hara from the edge of the water. At the bottom of the print in the foreground on the left hand side is the shore of the lake. It is green with a small tan area. Dark blue cracks appear in it. In to the centre and extending into the bottom right corner is the light green lake. The rocky, tan slope of a mountain begins on the opposite side of the lake but its height is cropped by the top of the print. Dark shadows are cast on the lake.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies, Lake O’Hara
Credit
Purchased from Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 2003
Catalogue Number
MlT.04.03
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Yoshimachi Menten, Civilization-36 Banquets

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Artist
Toyohara Kunichika
Date
1878
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
KoT.04.04
Description
Print is divided in half diagonally by a brown staircase on the left side that one Geisha is climbing. Another Geigha is standing on the floor, holding a sash of red fabric in her mouth. She is wearing a checkered Kimono. A servant is bending to her left picking out a piece of green fabric. A g…
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Artist
Toyohara Kunichika
Title
Yoshimachi Menten, Civilization-36 Banquets
Date
1878
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
37.5 x 25.0 cm
Description
Print is divided in half diagonally by a brown staircase on the left side that one Geisha is climbing. Another Geigha is standing on the floor, holding a sash of red fabric in her mouth. She is wearing a checkered Kimono. A servant is bending to her left picking out a piece of green fabric. A garden with a tree is in the background. The floor is green, and panelled wood.
Subject
Figures
Japanese
geisha
servants
activity
changing
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
KoT.04.04
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