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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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Abstract Sketch

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

Date: 1967

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.02

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

Title: Abstract Sketch

Date: 1967

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 15.2 x 8.3 cm

Subject: abstract; non-representational

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

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.02

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Foot of Three Sisters

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Artist: Joseph Francis Plaskett (1918 – 2014, Canadian)

Date: 1968

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: PlJ.03.01

Description: General colour: black, blue, brown on grey paper. Mountains go into the distance from right to left diagonally upper to lower area. Sky is dark blue with flames of yellow on grey.

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Artist: Joseph Francis Plaskett (1918 – 2014, Canadian)

Title: Foot of Three Sisters

Date: 1968

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 49.7 x 65.9 cm

Description: General colour: black, blue, brown on grey paper. Mountains go into the distance from right to left diagonally upper to lower area. Sky is dark blue with flames of yellow on grey.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Purchased from Joseph Francis Plaskett, 1972

Catalogue Number: PlJ.03.01

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Wapiti print 1968

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Artist: Betty Trimmer

Date: 1968

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: TrB.03.01

Description: Black markings on a white ground.

Artist: Betty Trimmer

Title: Wapiti print 1968

Date: 1968

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 41.7 x 68.7 cm

Description: Black markings on a white ground.

Subject: abstract; animal, elk

Credit: Gift of Whites Grocery, Banff, 1969

Catalogue Number: TrB.03.01

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The First Step Beyond

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.03.02

Description: Colour: black on white. A cowering figure at centre is surrounded by three hands at the right (one hand becoming a face) and a large face and two black figures to the left and above.Au verso: THE FIRST STEP BEYOND

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: The First Step Beyond

Date: 1969

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 30.8 x 45.6 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. A cowering figure at centre is surrounded by three hands at the right (one hand becoming a face) and a large face and two black figures to the left and above.Au verso: THE FIRST STEP BEYOND

Subject: figure, male; mythological

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: StS.03.02

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Just Playing

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.03.04

Description: Colour: black on white. At viewer’s left and forefront, a man,is facing left and sitting on an oil drum. He is is wearing a cap, shirt, jeans and cowboy boots and is playing a guitar. Behind the man and toward viewer’s right is a telephone pole with a figure of a man hanging from a rope. In the bac…

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Just Playing

Date: 1969

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.5 x 37.0 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. At viewer’s left and forefront, a man,is facing left and sitting on an oil drum. He is is wearing a cap, shirt, jeans and cowboy boots and is playing a guitar. Behind the man and toward viewer’s right is a telephone pole with a figure of a man hanging from a rope. In the background are a gentle range of hills.Au verso printed in pencil “JUST PLAYING”, rhtc “115” encircled, blhc “20” encircled with “25” on top

Subject: figures, male; Indigenous

Credit: Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: StS.03.04

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White Buffalo

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.03.07

Description: Colour: black on white. In the centre is a seated black figure with white hair and one hand visble. To the viewer’s right stands an aged figure wearing a white cloak/blanket and leaning on a cane. In the distance towards the viewer’s lower left are eleven black bison and one white.Au verso: tlhc en…

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: White Buffalo

Date: 1969

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 35.3 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. In the centre is a seated black figure with white hair and one hand visble. To the viewer’s right stands an aged figure wearing a white cloak/blanket and leaning on a cane. In the distance towards the viewer’s lower left are eleven black bison and one white.Au verso: tlhc encircled “90” vestige of former drawing visible

Subject: figure, group; animal, buffalo

Credit: Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: StS.03.07

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Clouds

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: felt marker on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.03.08

Description: One central large facial image (on top of which is an arm and smaller face) under which is a beak and eye of a bird, two hands and a third and final facial image below that in the shape of a C off centre to the viewer’s left bottom. Vestiges of former drawing showing through.Au verso: “CLOUDS” brhc…

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Clouds

Date: 1969

Medium: felt marker on paper

Dimensions: 30.8 x 45.6 cm

Description: One central large facial image (on top of which is an arm and smaller face) under which is a beak and eye of a bird, two hands and a third and final facial image below that in the shape of a C off centre to the viewer’s left bottom. Vestiges of former drawing showing through.Au verso: “CLOUDS” brhc encircled “35” topped by encircled “6”

Subject: face, human; animal, bird; mythological

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

Catalogue Number: StS.03.08

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Glacier Lilies

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Artist: Jean Pilch (1947 – , Canadian)

Date: 1990

Medium: graphite; polychrome on paper

Catalogue Number: PiJ.03.01

Description: A blossoming glacier lily is centered in the drawing, three yellow blossoms with green foliage, more green foliage is detailed poking through the snow.

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Artist: Jean Pilch (1947 – , Canadian)

Title: Glacier Lilies

Date: 1990

Medium: graphite; polychrome on paper

Dimensions: 23.0 x 15.2 cm

Description: A blossoming glacier lily is centered in the drawing, three yellow blossoms with green foliage, more green foliage is detailed poking through the snow.

Subject: botanical; lily

Credit: Gift of Sunshine Village, Banff, 1990

Catalogue Number: PiJ.03.01

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Green Valley, Kananaskis Country

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Artist: Phil Michaud (1935 – 2010, Canadian)

Date: 1994

Medium: oil pastel on acid free board

Catalogue Number: MiP.03.03

Description: This pastel drawing has different colours of green in the foreground. There is a row of dark green trees separating the valley from the base of the mountains. In the middle section there are two layers of mountains. The lower mountain has a green colour and the higher layer of mountains are blue. T…

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Artist: Phil Michaud (1935 – 2010, Canadian)

Title: Green Valley, Kananaskis Country

Date: 1994

Medium: oil pastel on acid free board

Description: This pastel drawing has different colours of green in the foreground. There is a row of dark green trees separating the valley from the base of the mountains. In the middle section there are two layers of mountains. The lower mountain has a green colour and the higher layer of mountains are blue. The sky is light blue with some thin white clouds.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Kananaskis

Credit: Gift of Phil Michaud, Banff, 1997

Catalogue Number: MiP.03.03

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Frank Smallface, Randa Weaselhead and their daughter Kayleen Smallface

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Artist: George Webber

Date: 1997 – 1997

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.08

Description: Portrait photograph of Frank Smallface, Randa Weaselhead and their daughter Kayleen Smallface taken in their home near Standoff, Alberta.

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Artist: George Webber

Title: Frank Smallface, Randa Weaselhead and their daughter Kayleen Smallface

Date: 1997 – 1997

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 11” x 14” cm

Description: Portrait photograph of Frank Smallface, Randa Weaselhead and their daughter Kayleen Smallface taken in their home near Standoff, Alberta.

Subject: documentary photography; portrait; First Nations; Indigenous; family

Credit: Gift of George Webber, Calgary, 2014

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.08

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Lighting Strike, near Standoff

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Artist: George Webber

Date: 1997

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.15

Description: View of a lightening storm near Standoff, Alberta, Blood Reserve.

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Artist: George Webber

Title: Lighting Strike, near Standoff

Date: 1997

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 11” x 14” cm

Description: View of a lightening storm near Standoff, Alberta, Blood Reserve.

Subject: documentary photography; landscape; lightening; First Nations; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of George Webber, Calgary, 2014

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.15

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Sweat Lodge, near Standoff

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Artist: George Webber

Date: 1998

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.24

Description: Photograph of a sweat lodge in Blood Reserve, Standoff, Alberta.

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Artist: George Webber

Title: Sweat Lodge, near Standoff

Date: 1998

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 11” x 14” cm

Description: Photograph of a sweat lodge in Blood Reserve, Standoff, Alberta.

Subject: documentary photography; First Nations; sweat lodge; community; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of George Webber, Calgary, 2014

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.24

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St. Catherine’s Cemetery, near Standoff

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Artist: George Webber

Date: 1999

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.22

Description: Photograph of St. Catherine’s cemetery near Standoff, southern Alberta.

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Artist: George Webber

Title: St. Catherine’s Cemetery, near Standoff

Date: 1999

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 11” x 14” cm

Description: Photograph of St. Catherine’s cemetery near Standoff, southern Alberta.

Subject: documentary photography; First Nations; cemetery; landscape

Credit: Gift of George Webber, Calgary, 2014

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.22

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Girls in Front of Colony

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Artist: George Webber

Date: 1999 – 1999

Medium: photography on paper

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.26

Description: Two girls hugging in front of Little Bow Hutterite Colony, Southern Alberta.

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Artist: George Webber

Title: Girls in Front of Colony

Date: 1999 – 1999

Medium: photography on paper

Dimensions: 11” x 14” cm

Description: Two girls hugging in front of Little Bow Hutterite Colony, Southern Alberta.

Subject: documentary photography; colony

Credit: Gift of George Webber, Calgary, 2014

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.26

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Braiding Maria’s Hair

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Artist: George Webber

Date: 1999 – 1999

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.27

Description: Photograph of a young girl, Maria, having her hair braided by an unidentified woman. Photograph was taken at the Little Bow Hutterite Colony, Southern Alberta.

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Artist: George Webber

Title: Braiding Maria’s Hair

Date: 1999 – 1999

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 11” x 14” cm

Description: Photograph of a young girl, Maria, having her hair braided by an unidentified woman. Photograph was taken at the Little Bow Hutterite Colony, Southern Alberta.

Subject: documentary photography; colony

Credit: Gift of George Webber, Calgary, 2014

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.27

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Pants on Clothesline

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Artist: George Webber

Date: 1999 – 1999

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: WeB.18.30

Description: Photograph of seven pairs of pants hanging from a clothesline outside. Photograph taken at Little Bow Hutterite Colony in Southern Alberta.

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Artist: George Webber

Title: Pants on Clothesline

Date: 1999 – 1999

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 11” x 14” cm

Description: Photograph of seven pairs of pants hanging from a clothesline outside. Photograph taken at Little Bow Hutterite Colony in Southern Alberta.