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Katharine Hepburn

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Artist: Earl F. Spencer

Date: 1960

Medium: oil on canvas on board

Catalogue Number: SpE.02.02

Description: Portrait of Katharine Hepburn wearing a blue shirt, three quarter view of the right side of her face.

Artist: Earl F. Spencer

Title: Katharine Hepburn

Date: 1960

Medium: oil on canvas on board

Dimensions: 40.5 x 30.5 cm

Description: Portrait of Katharine Hepburn wearing a blue shirt, three quarter view of the right side of her face.

Subject: portrait, female

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

Catalogue Number: SpE.02.02

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Eskimo Children II, Resolute Bay, N.W.T.

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

Date: 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.01

Description: The faces of three children look out from parka hoods. Behind in the distance are mountains.

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

Title: Eskimo Children II, Resolute Bay, N.W.T.

Date: 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.0 x 62.3 cm

Description: The faces of three children look out from parka hoods. Behind in the distance are mountains.

Subject: portrait; child; group; Inuit

Credit: Purchased from Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper, 1969

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.01

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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The Kelly Princess Beguiling Erin

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Artist: Earl F. Spencer

Date: 1961

Medium: oil on canvas on board

Catalogue Number: SpE.02.01

Description: Portrait of a woman (Princess Grace?) painted against a blue background the image taken from the cover of LIFE magazine June 23, 1961. The Cover of LIFE magazine accompanies the portrait

Artist: Earl F. Spencer

Title: The Kelly Princess Beguiling Erin

Date: 1961

Medium: oil on canvas on board

Dimensions: 40.5 x 30.5 cm

Description: Portrait of a woman (Princess Grace?) painted against a blue background the image taken from the cover of LIFE magazine June 23, 1961. The Cover of LIFE magazine accompanies the portrait

Subject: portrait, female

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

Catalogue Number: SpE.02.01

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Pilot Mountain

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Artist: Robert M. Dingwall

Date: 1961

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DnR.02.01

Description: In the bottom third of painting is thirteen single trees and a river with islands in it. The purple shadowed mountain rises up from there. A glacier on the left, the main peak left of center and two distant peaks to the right. Skin tone and yellow tinted clouds fill the top third. The signature in …

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Artist: Robert M. Dingwall

Title: Pilot Mountain

Date: 1961

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 54.9 x 70.3 cm

Description: In the bottom third of painting is thirteen single trees and a river with islands in it. The purple shadowed mountain rises up from there. A glacier on the left, the main peak left of center and two distant peaks to the right. Skin tone and yellow tinted clouds fill the top third. The signature in the lower left is signed in orange red.

Subject: landscape; mountain; glacier

Credit: Gift of eisler, Edmonton, 1972

Catalogue Number: DnR.02.01

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Rocks, Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1961

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.011

Description: Colour: grey, green, brown, blue, white. Foreground is grey and brown slabs of rock. At the right side is a dark rock cliff and behind a grey mountain peak.Clouds come down in swirls of white revealing two patches of clear blue.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Rocks, Lake O'Hara

Date: 1961

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 76.5 x 63.5 cm

Description: Colour: grey, green, brown, blue, white. Foreground is grey and brown slabs of rock. At the right side is a dark rock cliff and behind a grey mountain peak.Clouds come down in swirls of white revealing two patches of clear blue.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.011

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Chief Sitting Bull

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Artist: Earl F. Spencer

Date: 1962

Medium: oil on canvas on board

Catalogue Number: SpE.02.03

Description: Study of an man sitting on a rock, he holds a pipe across his knees, his hair is braided and he wears one feather in it.

Artist: Earl F. Spencer

Title: Chief Sitting Bull

Date: 1962

Medium: oil on canvas on board

Dimensions: 40.5 x 30.5 cm

Description: Study of an man sitting on a rock, he holds a pipe across his knees, his hair is braided and he wears one feather in it.

Subject: figure, male; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: SpE.02.03

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Untitled

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Artist: Tom Lonsdale (1886 – 1975, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: LoT.02.07

Description: A stylized painting of Cascade Mountain, the top almost touches the top of the painting, just off centre, fluffy white clouds in a blue sky. Some evergreen trees in foreground, a stylized rock in bottom right corner.

Artist: Tom Lonsdale (1886 – 1975, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1962

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 20 x 24.6 cm

Description: A stylized painting of Cascade Mountain, the top almost touches the top of the painting, just off centre, fluffy white clouds in a blue sky. Some evergreen trees in foreground, a stylized rock in bottom right corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Ken Madsen, Banff, 1983

Catalogue Number: LoT.02.07

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Banff 1962

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: GyH.02.01

Description: General colour: greens, pink, blue, mauve and purple. Mount Rundle in broad impressionistic strokes. “GLYDE 62” aigned in black in the brhc.

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Banff 1962

Date: 1962

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 26.1 x 33.6 cm

Description: General colour: greens, pink, blue, mauve and purple. Mount Rundle in broad impressionistic strokes. “GLYDE 62” aigned in black in the brhc.

Subject: landscape; Mount Rundle; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of eisler, Edmonton, 1972

Catalogue Number: GyH.02.01

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Storm In the Foothills

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1963

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: LaC.02.02

Description: General colour: purple, green. The lower half of the picture is green hills in front with bushes. One clump noticably right of center. Purple hills behind with mist in the hollows. The upper half is snow capped mauve mountains, green, pink and purple arched sky, above which on the left side is rain…

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Storm In the Foothills

Date: 1963

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 59.6 x 74.9 cm

Description: General colour: purple, green. The lower half of the picture is green hills in front with bushes. One clump noticably right of center. Purple hills behind with mist in the hollows. The upper half is snow capped mauve mountains, green, pink and purple arched sky, above which on the left side is raining on the hills below.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.02.02

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The Hunter

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: 1966

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.19

Description: Two figures in loincloths and two saddles horses (one brown, one black) in grassy meadow on the shore of a blue lake., Figure at left is standing next to black horse while brown horse is grazing on grass in centre next to seated figure at right. Rocky mountains and grassy slopes rise from far shore…

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: The Hunter

Date: 1966

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 59.0 x 74.5 cm

Description: Two figures in loincloths and two saddles horses (one brown, one black) in grassy meadow on the shore of a blue lake., Figure at left is standing next to black horse while brown horse is grazing on grass in centre next to seated figure at right. Rocky mountains and grassy slopes rise from far shore of lake. Thin clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” lower right corner. On back: “THE HUNTER Frank Kaquitts Aug 1966” Stamped on back of canvas supports is “ARTISTS MATERIALS GRUMBACHER NEW YORK”

Subject: landscape; indigenous; horses; lake; mountains

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.19

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The Three Sisters

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Artist: Duncan Crockford (1920 – 1992)

Date: 1966

Medium: painting on canvas

Catalogue Number: CrD.02.01

Description: A landscape oil painting. In the background are mountains and a blue sky with white clouds. In the foreground is a field with two blonde horses grazing on the left and one brown and white one on the right. Behind the horses is a wooden fence and a small pond. Behind the pond is a small building and…

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Artist: Duncan Crockford (1920 – 1992)

Title: The Three Sisters

Date: 1966

Medium: painting on canvas

Dimensions: 76.5 x 91.5 cm

Description: A landscape oil painting. In the background are mountains and a blue sky with white clouds. In the foreground is a field with two blonde horses grazing on the left and one brown and white one on the right. Behind the horses is a wooden fence and a small pond. Behind the pond is a small building and a white church steeple is visible behind the building. The horses and buildings are also surrounded by forest, a mix of green coniferous and golden deciduous trees. The artist signature is painted in the bottom rhc, “Duncan /66”.

Subject: landscape; mountains; three sisters; Duncan Crockford

Credit: Gift of William Randall (Estate), Halifax, 2011

Catalogue Number: CrD.02.01

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C Level Lake, Bankhead, Cascade Mountain

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Artist: Dorothy V. Whyte

Date: 1967

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: WhD.02.01

Description: Colour: green, blue, purple. Purple bushes run along tthe lower edge. In he center banked on either side by green bushes is blue green water. The upper third is the far shore of trees and mountains in the distance. There is grey sky along the top.

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Artist: Dorothy V. Whyte

Title: C Level Lake, Bankhead, Cascade Mountain

Date: 1967

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.7 cm

Description: Colour: green, blue, purple. Purple bushes run along tthe lower edge. In he center banked on either side by green bushes is blue green water. The upper third is the far shore of trees and mountains in the distance. There is grey sky along the top.

Subject: landscape, lake; mountain; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Dorothy V. Whyte, West Vancouver, 1970

Catalogue Number: WhD.02.01

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Mountain Road

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1967

Medium: oil, gesso on cotton canvas

Catalogue Number: SiR.01.01

Description: One-third painted blue top to bottom, on viewer’s left, one-third painted green, top to bottom, on viewer’s right; in the centre a grey/brown road leading to brown mountains with a white sky above. Signed blhc: “Sinclair ‘87”

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Mountain Road

Date: 1967

Medium: oil, gesso on cotton canvas

Dimensions: 23.0 x 20.5 cm

Description: One-third painted blue top to bottom, on viewer’s left, one-third painted green, top to bottom, on viewer’s right; in the centre a grey/brown road leading to brown mountains with a white sky above. Signed blhc: “Sinclair ‘87”

Subject: landscape; mountains; road

Credit: Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010

Catalogue Number: SiR.01.01

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Mount Wilson From Graveyard

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: ShM.02.01

Description: The bottom third of the painting features a lake or body of water surrounded on both sides by trees. Rocks and pieces of stumps and wood are situated across the foreground. The background shows a very large mountain range green, blue and light blue grey in colour. The sky around the mountains and t…

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Title: Mount Wilson From Graveyard

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 40.6 x 50.8 cm

Description: The bottom third of the painting features a lake or body of water surrounded on both sides by trees. Rocks and pieces of stumps and wood are situated across the foreground. The background shows a very large mountain range green, blue and light blue grey in colour. The sky around the mountains and trees is sky blue with some clouds.

Subject: landscape; Canadian; mountains

Credit: Gift of Wilf Johnson, Calgary, 1996

Catalogue Number: ShM.02.01

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Oil Painting

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Date: 1968

Material: paint; board; wood

Catalogue Number: 107.02.0079 a,b

Description: Two paintings signed by Harvey Baptiste. a) simple painting on canvas board. Large green field with brown cliffs in front and blue mountains and sky in background. b) very detailed parting of small lake with trees around it and mountain in background. Impressionist style. Painting is 19.5 cm x 23.5…

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Title: Oil Painting

Date: 1968

Material: paint; board; wood

Dimensions: 30.0 x 40.0 cm

Description: Two paintings signed by Harvey Baptiste. a) simple painting on canvas board. Large green field with brown cliffs in front and blue mountains and sky in background. b) very detailed parting of small lake with trees around it and mountain in background. Impressionist style. Painting is 19.5 cm x 23.5 cm and is in a thick blond wood frame. Size with frame is: 32.0 cm x 37.0 cm. Writing on back reads: “THE FLOOTING CLOUDS HARVEY [“AUBREY” is crossed out] BAPTISTE, MAY 14, 68”