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Alpine Flower (Epilobium palustre or Epilobium ciliatum?)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1903

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.26

Description: A single plant fills most of the paper; a thin stem from which emanates many smaller stems with leaves; small pink flowers and buds top the stems.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Alpine Flower (Epilobium palustre or Epilobium ciliatum?)

Date: 1903

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.5 x 18.0 cm

Description: A single plant fills most of the paper; a thin stem from which emanates many smaller stems with leaves; small pink flowers and buds top the stems.

Subject: botanical; flower

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.26

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Anemone parviflora (Alpine Anenome)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1885 – 1905

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.24

Description: Two plants with brown roots; large leaves; a white flower with yellow bud.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Anemone parviflora (Alpine Anenome)

Date: 1885 – 1905

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.0 x 15.0 cm

Description: Two plants with brown roots; large leaves; a white flower with yellow bud.

Subject: botanical; flower; anenome

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.24

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Anemone patens (Prairie Crocus)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1906

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.22

Description: A single plant and 2 cuttings, light purple flowers in various stages.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Anemone patens (Prairie Crocus)

Date: 1906

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.5 x 17.5 cm

Description: A single plant and 2 cuttings, light purple flowers in various stages.

Subject: botanical; flower

Credit: Gift of Leonard Leacock, 1968

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.22

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Aster bigelovii (Purple Tansy Aster)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1903

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.04

Description: A single, thick brown stem with long green bracted leaves, is topped with a cluster of purple flowers with yellow centres.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Aster bigelovii (Purple Tansy Aster)

Date: 1903

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.5 x 17.5 cm

Description: A single, thick brown stem with long green bracted leaves, is topped with a cluster of purple flowers with yellow centres.

Subject: botanical; flower

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.04

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Aster foliaceus (Leafy Aster)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1903

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.18

Description: A thick green stem comes from the centre bottom of painting spreading out near the top with smaller stems which have delicate yellow and pink flowers; 6 yellow centers with pink fringes; others are pink buds.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Aster foliaceus (Leafy Aster)

Date: 1903

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.5 x 17.5 cm

Description: A thick green stem comes from the centre bottom of painting spreading out near the top with smaller stems which have delicate yellow and pink flowers; 6 yellow centers with pink fringes; others are pink buds.

Subject: botanical; flower

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.18

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Autumn Evening

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Artist: Frederick Arthur Verner (1836 – 1928, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: VeR.05.02

Description: Colour: green, blue grey, orange. Two ducks are landing on a pond which fills the lower right area. Marsh in the lower left corner gives way to autumn trees across the upper half leaving blue sky visible in the upper right corner.

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Artist: Frederick Arthur Verner (1836 – 1928, Canadian)

Title: Autumn Evening

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 34.0 x 16.2 cm

Description: Colour: green, blue grey, orange. Two ducks are landing on a pond which fills the lower right area. Marsh in the lower left corner gives way to autumn trees across the upper half leaving blue sky visible in the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; animal, bird; duck; lake

Credit: Gift of Lillian Jones, Calgary, 1975

Catalogue Number: VeR.05.02

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Autumn in the Canadian Rockies

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1944 – 1962

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.03

Description: More than half the painting is a lake with the reflection of fall trees, yellow and green, and a mountain range behind. The top half is yellow aspens and evergreens on lakeshore and blue, purple, grey and white mountains with a light blue sky.

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Autumn in the Canadian Rockies

Date: 1944 – 1962

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.2 x 50.5 cm

Description: More than half the painting is a lake with the reflection of fall trees, yellow and green, and a mountain range behind. The top half is yellow aspens and evergreens on lakeshore and blue, purple, grey and white mountains with a light blue sky.

Subject: Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

Credit: Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.03

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Bow Glacier, Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.507

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Glacier, Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.3 x 30.1 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.507

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Bow Glacier, Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.520

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Glacier, Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.520

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Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.509

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1928 – 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35.2 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.509

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Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.522

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.5 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.522

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Bow Lake

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.523

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1940 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35.1 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.523

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Calypso bulbosa (Calypso Orchid/Pink Fairy's Slipper)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.19

Description: A single green stem from bottom centre curves to centre with 2 flowers, both are dark pink with yellow centre, pink petals flare out from bottom of flowers.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Calypso bulbosa (Calypso Orchid/Pink Fairy's Slipper)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.3 x 17.5 cm

Description: A single green stem from bottom centre curves to centre with 2 flowers, both are dark pink with yellow centre, pink petals flare out from bottom of flowers.

Subject: botanical; flower

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.19

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Campanula rotundifolia (Harebells)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1903

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.17

Description: Six purple flowers hang from tops of long green stems; buds and small leaves on stems; brown root and a cluster of green leaves at stem end.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Campanula rotundifolia (Harebells)

Date: 1903

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.5 x 17.5 cm

Description: Six purple flowers hang from tops of long green stems; buds and small leaves on stems; brown root and a cluster of green leaves at stem end.