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Later Known as Mount Edith Cavell

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Artist: Alexander Young Jackson (1882 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1914

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: JaA.03.10

Description: Pencil sketch of a mountain. The mountain is centered with ridges at angles. Mountain appears to be snow covered. Foreground is a plain ridge. Drawn on light sketchbook paper, fragile condition.

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Artist: Alexander Young Jackson (1882 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Later Known as Mount Edith Cavell

Date: 1914

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.2 x 27.8 cm

Description: Pencil sketch of a mountain. The mountain is centered with ridges at angles. Mountain appears to be snow covered. Foreground is a plain ridge. Drawn on light sketchbook paper, fragile condition.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of Naomi Jackson Groves, Ottawa, 1989

Catalogue Number: JaA.03.10

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Cultus Creek

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Artist: Charles Morrise Brousson ( – 1941)

Date: 1920

Medium: oil on wood

Catalogue Number: BrC.02.01

Description: A primitive painting on a piece of wood. The foreground is beige and brown bank with a white and brown tepee on the left. Beyond this the creek, blue and white extends to mid centre. The top half of the painting is a slope covered with trees to left and a mountain, blue, white and green, to the ri…

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Artist: Charles Morrise Brousson ( – 1941)

Title: Cultus Creek

Date: 1920

Medium: oil on wood

Dimensions: 10.5 x 15.1 cm

Description: A primitive painting on a piece of wood. The foreground is beige and brown bank with a white and brown tepee on the left. Beyond this the creek, blue and white extends to mid centre. The top half of the painting is a slope covered with trees to left and a mountain, blue, white and green, to the right. A cloudy grey sky.

Subject: Canadian Rockies; landscape; mountain; creek; building; tepee

Credit: Gift of Earle Birney, Toronto, 1969

Catalogue Number: BrC.02.01

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Mount Barnard

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Date: 1922

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ThM.05.02

Description: Colour: white, blue, pink, green. Looking from a glacier across a wide plain.Blowing snow obscures a distant snowy peak.

Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Title: Mount Barnard

Date: 1922

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 13.5 x 22.5 cm

Description: Colour: white, blue, pink, green. Looking from a glacier across a wide plain.Blowing snow obscures a distant snowy peak.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of anonymous, 1971

Catalogue Number: ThM.05.02

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Freshfield Group

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Date: 1922

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ThM.05.01

Description: General colour: white, blue, purple. A distant mountain skyline with dotted routes marked on the right and at center. The name of each peak is marked at the end of a line which comes down perpendicular to the mountains, from the sky which is blue except for couds hanging just above the peaks.

Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Title: Freshfield Group

Date: 1922

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 37.5 x 24.5 cm

Description: General colour: white, blue, purple. A distant mountain skyline with dotted routes marked on the right and at center. The name of each peak is marked at the end of a line which comes down perpendicular to the mountains, from the sky which is blue except for couds hanging just above the peaks.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of anonymous, 1971

Catalogue Number: ThM.05.01

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Old Saints, Church Street

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

Date: 1925

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.26

Description: blc is a woman in a long red dress and white apron and green shawl. She is carrying something and going to meet a young girl on a sidewalk. Crossing the street lower mid-centre is a man in brown and young girl in pink. There are buildings to the left and right of street, trees at the end. Most of t…

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

Title: Old Saints, Church Street

Date: 1925

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 26.5 x 35.6 cm

Description: blc is a woman in a long red dress and white apron and green shawl. She is carrying something and going to meet a young girl on a sidewalk. Crossing the street lower mid-centre is a man in brown and young girl in pink. There are buildings to the left and right of street, trees at the end. Most of the buildings appear to be homes but you can see a square castle or church spire poking out mid-centre. Cloudy sky. Street is in shadow from the right.

Subject: urban; building; church; figure; people

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.26

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Park Range

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.539

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Park Range

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.2 x 27.7 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.539

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Castleguard Meadows

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.594

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Castleguard Meadows

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 27.8 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; camp; tent; figure; male

Credit: Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.594

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Teepee

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.071

Description: Oil painting of a beige and brown tepee and tall dark green pine tree with more smaller same-coloured trees in the background. Vague shapes behind those could either be mountains or clouds done in shades of blue and seafoam green. Signed “Peter Whyte -29” in bottom right corner.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Teepee

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 14.3 x 13.2 cm

Description: Oil painting of a beige and brown tepee and tall dark green pine tree with more smaller same-coloured trees in the background. Vague shapes behind those could either be mountains or clouds done in shades of blue and seafoam green. Signed “Peter Whyte -29” in bottom right corner.

Subject: teepee; landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; forest; camp

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.02.071

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Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.360

Description: The bottom half of the picture is the green of a forest, a brown road is centre bottom. Mountain range in background with the top third of the painting a cloudy sky.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.0 x 30.4 cm

Description: The bottom half of the picture is the green of a forest, a brown road is centre bottom. Mountain range in background with the top third of the painting a cloudy sky.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.360

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Lake O'Hara Region

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.542

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Lake O'Hara Region

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 38.3 x 39.1 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.542

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Cathedral Mountain, Yoho Valley

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.547

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Cathedral Mountain, Yoho Valley

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 38.2 x 37.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.547

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At the Yoho Camp

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.430

Description: A brown cabin with white trim is in left centre, another building to the left of it. Mountain in the distance at centre right. Large evergreen trees beside the cabin. Billowy sky. A saddled brown horse is standing near a standing man in the right foreground.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: At the Yoho Camp

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: A brown cabin with white trim is in left centre, another building to the left of it. Mountain in the distance at centre right. Large evergreen trees beside the cabin. Billowy sky. A saddled brown horse is standing near a standing man in the right foreground.