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Moraine Lake

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

Date: 1927

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.09

Description: The mountains dominate the picture, of blue/purple tones. Left foreground is a small lake with reflections of the mountains, immediate right foreground has yellow/brown tones, treed shoreline. Little sky showing, cloudy. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition publica…

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

Title: Moraine Lake

Date: 1927

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 42.2 x 57.0 cm

Description: The mountains dominate the picture, of blue/purple tones. Left foreground is a small lake with reflections of the mountains, immediate right foreground has yellow/brown tones, treed shoreline. Little sky showing, cloudy. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition publication of the collection, either in whole or in part. Banff Centre catalogue numbers: 81 0334 A; 20687.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountains; lake

Credit: Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.09

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

Date: 1929

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.02

Description: General colour: blue. A foreground rock cliff goes up right side from the lower corner. Center mountain face has a jagged ridge. Clouds come down to the peak at the upper right of center, edge. In the lower left corner is a distant mountain. Blue sky with one cloud fills the upper left area. There …

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

Title: Untitled

Date: 1929

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 55.0 x 43.5 cm

Description: General colour: blue. A foreground rock cliff goes up right side from the lower corner. Center mountain face has a jagged ridge. Clouds come down to the peak at the upper right of center, edge. In the lower left corner is a distant mountain. Blue sky with one cloud fills the upper left area. There is also a patch of blue in the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountains

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.02

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Bow Lake

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

Date: 1963

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.06

Description: General colour: pencil on white. Two points of land come in from left and right respectively with water in between and behind. The far shore starts quarter way up and becomes a mountain left of enter and right banks up each side. Sketchy clouds appear to be raining left and right.

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

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1963

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 32.3 x 40.1 cm

Description: General colour: pencil on white. Two points of land come in from left and right respectively with water in between and behind. The far shore starts quarter way up and becomes a mountain left of enter and right banks up each side. Sketchy clouds appear to be raining left and right.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountains; lake

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.06

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Bow Glacier

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

Date: 1900 – 1965

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.03

Description: General colour: white, blue, orange, green on brown. A mountain with purple, blue and orange slopes on the left. A bank of green on the right and snow and rock face above and center. Vague blue and cream shadings in the sky.

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

Title: Bow Glacier

Date: 1900 – 1965

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 24.0 x 30.4 cm

Description: General colour: white, blue, orange, green on brown. A mountain with purple, blue and orange slopes on the left. A bank of green on the right and snow and rock face above and center. Vague blue and cream shadings in the sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountains

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.03

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Untitled

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: graphite; pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.08

Description: General colour: pencil. Portrait of a young girl. Shoulders turned to the right, head turned out and looking left. She has pigtails and two bead necklaces.

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

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: graphite; pastel on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 30.4 cm

Description: General colour: pencil. Portrait of a young girl. Shoulders turned to the right, head turned out and looking left. She has pigtails and two bead necklaces.

Subject: Portrait; child; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.08

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Untitled

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.05

Description: General colour: pencil. A barn and a few other buildings sit in the lower sketchy landscape one third up. The upper two thirds are sky with one cloud left of center appearing to rain over the barn.

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

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 18.3 x 24.1 cm

Description: General colour: pencil. A barn and a few other buildings sit in the lower sketchy landscape one third up. The upper two thirds are sky with one cloud left of center appearing to rain over the barn.

Subject: landscape; rural

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.05

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Untitled

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.07

Description: General colour: pencil. Road narrows from bottom edge to center. Scattered telegraph poles run along the left side of the road. A grain elevator stands at the right side.

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

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 19.0 x 24.0 cm

Description: General colour: pencil. Road narrows from bottom edge to center. Scattered telegraph poles run along the left side of the road. A grain elevator stands at the right side.

Subject: landscape; prairie; architecture; rural

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.07

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“Corfe Castle” Dorset

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

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.10

Description: A pencil drawing showing a castle on a hilltop in the upper centre portion of the image. At the base of the hill there is a village. A streeet extends from the bottom of the hill as if the viewer is looking down it. There are buildings at the bottom of it and buildings line it. A horse and cart…

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

Title: “Corfe Castle” Dorset

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Description: A pencil drawing showing a castle on a hilltop in the upper centre portion of the image. At the base of the hill there is a village. A streeet extends from the bottom of the hill as if the viewer is looking down it. There are buildings at the bottom of it and buildings line it. A horse and cart and people are on the street. The drawing looks as if it is a sketch.

Subject: landscape; urban; architecture; castle; Corfe Castle; England; Dorset

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 2001

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.10

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Bodium Sussex

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

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.11

Description: A road runs across the image from the blc but turns up into the image in the centre. In the centre left of the image there is a house with bow windows, one above the other. Another house appears to be behind this one. Trees are further behind these two houses. In the centre of the image there i…

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

Title: Bodium Sussex

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Description: A road runs across the image from the blc but turns up into the image in the centre. In the centre left of the image there is a house with bow windows, one above the other. Another house appears to be behind this one. Trees are further behind these two houses. In the centre of the image there is a church and beside it are two more houses facing toward the left of the image. A small grassy area is in the brc.

Subject: landscape; urban; architecture; house; church; England; Sussex

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 2001

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.11

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Draining Mill - Norfolk

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

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.12

Description: Black and white drawing of a windmill. The windmill is drawn in the centre left of the image on a slight hill. The arms of the windmill are viewed from the side. A bit of a fence is visible in the brc. In the distance on the blc there is a farmhouse. Clouds are drawn in the sky.

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

Title: Draining Mill - Norfolk

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Description: Black and white drawing of a windmill. The windmill is drawn in the centre left of the image on a slight hill. The arms of the windmill are viewed from the side. A bit of a fence is visible in the brc. In the distance on the blc there is a farmhouse. Clouds are drawn in the sky.

Subject: architecture; windmill; landscape; rural; England; Norfolk

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 2001

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.12

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Untitled [Sketch]

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

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.14

Description: A sketch of a church is in the upper left corner of the paper. The sketch is framed by a hand-drawn square border. Around the the sketch there are hand-written notes. In the upper right corner of the paper there is a sketch of a church spire.

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

Title: Untitled [Sketch]

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Description: A sketch of a church is in the upper left corner of the paper. The sketch is framed by a hand-drawn square border. Around the the sketch there are hand-written notes. In the upper right corner of the paper there is a sketch of a church spire.