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Mount Sir Donald Station

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Artist: William Notman (1826 – 1891)

Date: 1889

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: NoW.04.01

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Artist: William Notman (1826 – 1891)

Title: Mount Sir Donald Station

Date: 1889

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 33.5 x 22.6 cm

Subject: landscape; mountains; CPR

Credit: Purchased from Prints Old and Rare, San Francisco, USA, 1979

Catalogue Number: NoW.04.01

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Kicking Horse Lake Looking East, Hector on the Canadian Pacific Railway

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Artist: William Notman (1826 – 1891)

Date: 1887

Medium: photographic print on paper

Catalogue Number: NoW.18.01

Description: Mountain landscape with large lake dominating the centre. A small white building and storage tank [possibly a refueling station] can be seen on the far side of the lake. Train tracks run the width of foreground and seated figure [known to be Fredrick M. Bell-Smith] at easel in bottom right corner. …

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Artist: William Notman (1826 – 1891)

Title: Kicking Horse Lake Looking East, Hector on the Canadian Pacific Railway

Date: 1887

Medium: photographic print on paper

Dimensions: 22.6 x 27.8 cm

Description: Mountain landscape with large lake dominating the centre. A small white building and storage tank [possibly a refueling station] can be seen on the far side of the lake. Train tracks run the width of foreground and seated figure [known to be Fredrick M. Bell-Smith] at easel in bottom right corner. Title typed in bottom left corner. Manufacturer’s mark “WM. NOTMAN & SON, MONTREAL” typed in bottom right.

Subject: mountains; lake; CPR; Fredrick Bell-Smith

Credit: Gift of Mark Cullen, 2021

Catalogue Number: NoW.18.01

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The Canadian Pacific Railway

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Artist: William Notman (1826 – 1891)

Date: 1886

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: NoW.04.02

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Artist: William Notman (1826 – 1891)

Title: The Canadian Pacific Railway

Date: 1886

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 40 x 28.2 cm

Subject: landscape; mountains; CPR

Credit: Purchased from Prints Old and Rare, San Francisco, USA, 1979

Catalogue Number: NoW.04.02

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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: Sydney C. Vick (1855 – 1922, Canadian)

Date: c. 1890

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: ViS.02.02

Description: Colour: green, blue. There is water across the bottom third except a patch of grass and a dead tree in the lower left corner. Behind the far shore of trees, is a mountain. The peak is right of center near the top. Sky has clouds in it.

Artist: Sydney C. Vick (1855 – 1922, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: c. 1890

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 19.9 x 12.4 cm

Description: Colour: green, blue. There is water across the bottom third except a patch of grass and a dead tree in the lower left corner. Behind the far shore of trees, is a mountain. The peak is right of center near the top. Sky has clouds in it.

Subject: landscape, mountain

Credit: Gift of Alice Fulmer, Victoria, 1966

Catalogue Number: ViS.02.02

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Untitled

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Artist: Sydney C. Vick (1855 – 1922, Canadian)

Date: c. 1890

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: ViS.02.04

Description: Colour: green. The left bank of the river fills the left lower corner. Three trees grow at the left side, two near the bottom and one small one up on some rocks two thirds the way up. The river comes up from the lower right corner. The far bank has trees and up beyond rise distant mountains. A patc…

Artist: Sydney C. Vick (1855 – 1922, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: c. 1890

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 17.0 x 10.4 cm

Description: Colour: green. The left bank of the river fills the left lower corner. Three trees grow at the left side, two near the bottom and one small one up on some rocks two thirds the way up. The river comes up from the lower right corner. The far bank has trees and up beyond rise distant mountains. A patch of sky can be seen in the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; mountain; river

Credit: Gift of Helen Wells, Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: ViS.02.04

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Untitled

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Artist: Sydney C. Vick (1855 – 1922, Canadian)

Date: c. 1890

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: ViS.02.05

Description: Colour: brown, mauve. Central image is a bucking pack horse. To the left is a pack horse going away from the viewer and a rider on a black horse facing out.To the right are two more pack horses running to the center, and a rider on a horse behind. Underfoot is prairie scrub and behind in the distan…

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Artist: Sydney C. Vick (1855 – 1922, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: c. 1890

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 47.3 x 62.1 cm

Description: Colour: brown, mauve. Central image is a bucking pack horse. To the left is a pack horse going away from the viewer and a rider on a black horse facing out.To the right are two more pack horses running to the center, and a rider on a horse behind. Underfoot is prairie scrub and behind in the distance purple mountains.

Subject: landscape, mountain; animal, horse; activity, packing; figure, male

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

Catalogue Number: ViS.02.05

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Untitled [Log Cabin in Snow]

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Artist: Sydney C. Vick (1855 – 1922, Canadian)

Date: c. 1890

Medium: oil on wood

Catalogue Number: ViS.02.03

Description: Winter scene with snow and a cabin in the forground. A row of tall evergreen trees directly behind the cabin fill almost the rest of the painting. 3 tree stumps in the bottom left corner.

Artist: Sydney C. Vick (1855 – 1922, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [Log Cabin in Snow]

Date: c. 1890

Medium: oil on wood

Description: Winter scene with snow and a cabin in the forground. A row of tall evergreen trees directly behind the cabin fill almost the rest of the painting. 3 tree stumps in the bottom left corner.

Subject: landscape; winter; cabin; trees

Credit: Gift of Alice Fulmer, Victoria, 1966

Catalogue Number: ViS.02.03

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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