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Watercolour Painting

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1937

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.22

Description: A watercolour painting showing two pyramids and pam trees with a reflection in a body of water. The painting is entirely in shades of orange. In the lower left corner is “1937” and in the lower right corner are the initials “W.V.G.”

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Watercolour Painting

Date: 1937

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 20.0 x 27.5 cm

Description: A watercolour painting showing two pyramids and pam trees with a reflection in a body of water. The painting is entirely in shades of orange. In the lower left corner is “1937” and in the lower right corner are the initials “W.V.G.”

Subject: pyramids; middle east; desert

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.22

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The Cascade

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Date: 1931

Medium: woodblock on rice paper

Catalogue Number: BeH.04.02

Description: A black and white woodcut with a foreground of a forest with fallen and leaning trees, a stream running first right and then finishing on the viewer’s left. The ground is littered with rocks. Beyond are some small pine trees, a rockwall with a water fall cascading down the rock face. Signature in m…

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Title: The Cascade

Date: 1931

Medium: woodblock on rice paper

Dimensions: 33.5 cm x 24.6 cm cm

Description: A black and white woodcut with a foreground of a forest with fallen and leaning trees, a stream running first right and then finishing on the viewer’s left. The ground is littered with rocks. Beyond are some small pine trees, a rockwall with a water fall cascading down the rock face. Signature in monogram HEB bottom rhc.

Subject: landscape; forest; water; H.E. Bergman

Credit: Gift of Norma Bergman, Calgary , 2010

Catalogue Number: BeH.04.02

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Pine Branch

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Date: 1931

Medium: woodblock on rice paper

Catalogue Number: BeH.04.01

Description: A black and white image with a foreground that has long pine needles and a branch with two pine cones. The branch has several limbs. In the distance is a mountain range with snow-capped peak. The image is affixed to folded paper. Signed in script rhc: H.E. Bergman

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Title: Pine Branch

Date: 1931

Medium: woodblock on rice paper

Dimensions: 11.8 cm x 16 cm cm

Description: A black and white image with a foreground that has long pine needles and a branch with two pine cones. The branch has several limbs. In the distance is a mountain range with snow-capped peak. The image is affixed to folded paper. Signed in script rhc: H.E. Bergman

Subject: vegetation; tree; H.E. Bergman

Credit: Gift of Karen Paul, Calgary, 2010

Catalogue Number: BeH.04.01

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Glacier Water

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Date: 1931

Medium: woodblock on rice paper

Catalogue Number: BeH.04.03

Description: A black and white woodblock print in which a mountain dominates. On the lower right there are rocks and boulders to the left the lower part of the mountain face. The mountain forms a peak on top with sky behind. On viewer’s right a glacial waterfall flows down the rockwall. Pencil script lhc: Glac…

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Title: Glacier Water

Date: 1931

Medium: woodblock on rice paper

Dimensions: 13.7cm x 11.9 cm cm

Description: A black and white woodblock print in which a mountain dominates. On the lower right there are rocks and boulders to the left the lower part of the mountain face. The mountain forms a peak on top with sky behind. On viewer’s right a glacial waterfall flows down the rockwall. Pencil script lhc: Glacial Water 7/75, pencil script rhc: H.E. Bergman

Subject: landscape; mountain; H.E. Bergman

Credit: Gift of Karen Paul, Calgary, 2010

Catalogue Number: BeH.04.03

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Castle Mountain

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Date: 1931

Medium: woodblock on rice paper

Catalogue Number: BeH.04.04

Description: A black and white engraving of Castle Mountain. The foreground is a dense forest with a slight clearing of brush at center of image.The forest ends at slopes up an embankment. The embankment has water pathways, leading in a downward pattern. The mountain rises from the embankment to a cloudy sky. T…

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Title: Castle Mountain

Date: 1931

Medium: woodblock on rice paper

Dimensions: 24.8 cm x 33 cm cm

Description: A black and white engraving of Castle Mountain. The foreground is a dense forest with a slight clearing of brush at center of image.The forest ends at slopes up an embankment. The embankment has water pathways, leading in a downward pattern. The mountain rises from the embankment to a cloudy sky. There is a red pencilled number “758” in the bottom lhc.

Subject: landscape; mountain; H. E. Bergman

Credit: Gift of Karen Paul, Calgary, 2010

Catalogue Number: BeH.04.04

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Untitled

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Date: 1931

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BeH.05.01

Description: A watercolour image of mountain landscape. In foreground there are green coniferous trees above which is a brown/pink hill, leading into a dark brown/ blue/green hill. Beyond that is a greenish blue foothill range. There are grey/brown mountain tops behind with a dark grey/blue cloud rising from mo…

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Title: Untitled

Date: 1931

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 33.0 cm

Description: A watercolour image of mountain landscape. In foreground there are green coniferous trees above which is a brown/pink hill, leading into a dark brown/ blue/green hill. Beyond that is a greenish blue foothill range. There are grey/brown mountain tops behind with a dark grey/blue cloud rising from mountain on viewer’s left.

Subject: landscape; mountain; H.E. Bergman

Credit: Gift of Karen Paul, Calgary, 2010

Catalogue Number: BeH.05.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Date: 1931

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BeH.05.02

Description: A watercolour painting with bright green coniferous trees in foreground and five larger trees rising up on the viewer’s left. Beyond the trees are rolling hills in browns, greens and blues. Beyond the hills is a mountain range, painted brown with blue outlines. The top third of the painting is a cl…

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Title: Untitled

Date: 1931

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 28.0 x 33.0 cm

Description: A watercolour painting with bright green coniferous trees in foreground and five larger trees rising up on the viewer’s left. Beyond the trees are rolling hills in browns, greens and blues. Beyond the hills is a mountain range, painted brown with blue outlines. The top third of the painting is a cloudy sky: on viewer’s left, grey and purple clouds; on viewer’s right, white clouds that open to a turquoise blue sky .

Subject: landscape; mountain; H.E. Bergman

Credit: Gift of Karen Paul, Calgary, 2010

Catalogue Number: BeH.05.02

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Untitled

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Date: 1931

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BeH.05.03

Description: A watercolour of mountain landscape on a cloudy day. Top one third is cloudy sky, mid third is grey and blue mountains with vestiges of snow, mid mountains purple, grey and green, hill slope on viewer’s left is purple pink and blue; mid bottom are trees without branches, the trunks are black and at…

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Title: Untitled

Date: 1931

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 28.0 x 33.0 cm

Description: A watercolour of mountain landscape on a cloudy day. Top one third is cloudy sky, mid third is grey and blue mountains with vestiges of snow, mid mountains purple, grey and green, hill slope on viewer’s left is purple pink and blue; mid bottom are trees without branches, the trunks are black and at the bottom of the painting are several blackened trunks and and stumps. Printed in sienna-coloured paint in the rhc: H.E. Bergman.

Subject: landscape; mountain; H.E. Bergman

Credit: Gift of Karen Paul, Calgary, 2010

Catalogue Number: BeH.05.03

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Untitled [Poster of Geisha]

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1878 – 1878

Medium: print on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.04.07 a-c

Description: This triptych features 7 women in a room with a brightly coloured floral rug (red,white and green) a large window spreads through all three panels, through which can be seen land with buildings and water. It is snowing out side. Most of the women have musical instruments. Next to each woman is a…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled [Poster of Geisha]

Date: 1878 – 1878

Medium: print on paper

Description: This triptych features 7 women in a room with a brightly coloured floral rug (red,white and green) a large window spreads through all three panels, through which can be seen land with buildings and water. It is snowing out side. Most of the women have musical instruments. Next to each woman is a descriptor of their role in Japanese. In the first panel are two women standing facing to their own right. The centre panel features three women sitting; two facing left, one right. 2 of these women have musical instruments. The third panel features two women sitting facing left. A green panel is behind them with a scroll on the far wall.

Subject: gathering; figures; women;Geisha

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.04.07 a-c

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Miniature Sculpture

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1800

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.12

Description: a miniature sculpture in the shape of a crab, made of brown metal.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Miniature Sculpture

Date: 1800

Dimensions: 1.2 x 3.0 cm

Description: a miniature sculpture in the shape of a crab, made of brown metal.

Subject: animal, crab

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.12

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Napoleon Premier

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1800

Medium: engraving on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.04.04

Description: A reproducing drawing of Napoleon. In a brown frame with a gold crown at the top and “N” at the bottom.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Napoleon Premier

Date: 1800

Medium: engraving on paper

Dimensions: 46.7 x 38.0 cm

Description: A reproducing drawing of Napoleon. In a brown frame with a gold crown at the top and “N” at the bottom.

Subject: portrait; male

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.04.04

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Untitled

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Artist: Unknown

Date: c. 1880

Medium: drawing on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.15

Description: on a rather square piece of thin rice paper is a small shape approx. 5cm x 5cm. It sits to the centre right of the page and centre bottom. The shape in unidentifiable, and is made of of 2 types of brush strokes. The ‘body’ of the shape has thick brush strokes that move inward. the top of the sh…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled

Date: c. 1880

Medium: drawing on paper

Dimensions: 32.0 x 35.0 cm

Description: on a rather square piece of thin rice paper is a small shape approx. 5cm x 5cm. It sits to the centre right of the page and centre bottom. The shape in unidentifiable, and is made of of 2 types of brush strokes. The ‘body’ of the shape has thick brush strokes that move inward. the top of the shape is a thin solid line that sits on top of the shape. On top of this line is a small triangle. On the bottom left of the shape a small strait line juts out, and curves a little at the bottom