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Mt. Temple

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.03

Description: Painting is dominated by Mt. Temple and one spruce tree on the viewer’s left that reaches almost out of the painting. Dominant colours are green, blue, grey, white, and black. Snow, some water and the bank is visible in the immediate lower foreground and the spruce tree rising out of snow to the le…

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Title: Mt. Temple

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 27.0 x 40.5 cm

Description: Painting is dominated by Mt. Temple and one spruce tree on the viewer’s left that reaches almost out of the painting. Dominant colours are green, blue, grey, white, and black. Snow, some water and the bank is visible in the immediate lower foreground and the spruce tree rising out of snow to the left. A bank of coniferous trees begin on the viewer’s left at the spruce tree and rise steadily to the viewer’s right. Two-thirds of the painting is a snow and ice-covered blue and grey Mt. Temple. The sky is grey and cloudy obscuring the mountain peak. A vestige of blue sky behind the mountain shows through on viewer’s middle right.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; Mt. Temple

Credit: Purchased from Brett Smith, 108 Mile Ranch, 2009

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.03

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Mosquito Creek

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.04

Description: A winter scene with dominant colours of white, green, blue, grey, and black. The foreground, which is more than half the painting, is comprised of snow, ice, shadows, two sections of the creek starting from viewer’s left, with one bush and one coniferous tree to viewer’s far middle right. The dark …

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Title: Mosquito Creek

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 30.0 x 36.7 cm

Description: A winter scene with dominant colours of white, green, blue, grey, and black. The foreground, which is more than half the painting, is comprised of snow, ice, shadows, two sections of the creek starting from viewer’s left, with one bush and one coniferous tree to viewer’s far middle right. The dark water of the creek is visible from the bush at the right, flows under the ice and snow, and then reappears at the left-hand centre of the painting and flows to the viewer’s left hand corner of the painting. The top-third of the painting is a bank of coniferous trees, sparsely painted on the left, becoming larger and darker towards middle and then lighter on the right as the trees further back rise to the mountain range in the background. Snow and clouds obscure the mountain tops. The sky is light grey and white.

Subject: landscape; water; creek; Canadian Rockies; Mosquito Creek

Credit: Purchased from Brett Smith, 108 Mile Ranch, 2009

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.04

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Rundle

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: painting on paper

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.05

Description: A summer scene dominated by Mt. Rundle and the trees that flank Vermilion’s first lake. The dominant colours are light and dark green, black, blue, brown and grey. The foreground is green and brown low vegetation, out of which a line of lodgepole pines, some dead and still standing, rise to two-thi…

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Title: Rundle

Date: 2009

Medium: painting on paper

Dimensions: 29.0 x 38.5 cm

Description: A summer scene dominated by Mt. Rundle and the trees that flank Vermilion’s first lake. The dominant colours are light and dark green, black, blue, brown and grey. The foreground is green and brown low vegetation, out of which a line of lodgepole pines, some dead and still standing, rise to two-thirds of the painting. Starting at the viewer’s far left, at mid-point, the branches of an aspen with green leaves fills the top far left of the painting. Vermilion’s first lake is visible though the lodgepoles and directly behind that, are the dark trees that line its opposite bank. Above the lake the lower slope of Tunnel Mountain is visible to the viewer’s left. The painting is dominated by majestic Mount Rundle, its lower slopes covered with muted green coniferous trees and its sheer rock face in varying shades of grey, blue, and brown. The deep blue sky has a few wisps of white showing through and some light grey clouds to the viewer’s right, above the peaks of the Rundle Range.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; Rundle Mountain

Credit: Purchased from Brett Smith, 108 Mile Ranch, 2009

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.05

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Stormy Mountain Sky

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.06

Description: A dark, stormy sky, and a large stand of partially burned trees on the viewer’s left, dominate the top two-thirds of the painting. The dominant colours are blue, black, green and brown. In the foreground to the viewer’s right are remnants of stumps and what appears to be fall vegetation, with charr…

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Title: Stormy Mountain Sky

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 31.3 x 40.0 cm

Description: A dark, stormy sky, and a large stand of partially burned trees on the viewer’s left, dominate the top two-thirds of the painting. The dominant colours are blue, black, green and brown. In the foreground to the viewer’s right are remnants of stumps and what appears to be fall vegetation, with charred tree trunks. To the viewer’s left is a charred stump of a burned tree trunk and above that a large stand of lodgepole pines with charred trunks, but with needles still on the tops of the trees. The stand of trees rise high into the stormy sky. Further away, behind the lodgepole pine trees, is a bank of coniferous trees in various shades of greens, that stretch across the painting. Above that, starting behind and to the right of the lodgepoles, mountains are visible; the first and farthest away, is grey with some snow visible, and then wooded mountains continue to the viewer’s far right to the edge of the painting. The dark, cloudy sky dominates most of the painting.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Purchased from Brett Smith, 108 Mile Ranch, 2009

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.06

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Above Mount Assiniboine #1

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Artist: Rene Thibault (1947 – )

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ThR.05.01

Description: Predominant colours are pink, blue, purple, green and brown. The painting is dominated by the pyramidal-shaped Mt. Assiniboine and the icefield below it. It appears to be an aerial view of sunrise on the mountain. The foreground is comprised of rocks showing through a snow-covered approach to the m…

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Artist: Rene Thibault (1947 – )

Title: Above Mount Assiniboine #1

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 38.0 x 58.0 cm

Description: Predominant colours are pink, blue, purple, green and brown. The painting is dominated by the pyramidal-shaped Mt. Assiniboine and the icefield below it. It appears to be an aerial view of sunrise on the mountain. The foreground is comprised of rocks showing through a snow-covered approach to the mountain peak. The rocks are various shades of very dark blue, lighter blue and brown. To the viewer’s left the snow is tinged in various shades of pink as the morning light strikes it and the view to the right is still in the blue shades of shadow. The artist’s signature in white is in this area. The middle of the painting is the pink glow of the sun on snow with some shaded snow and rocks still showing to the viewer’s right. The top-half is a snow-covered Mt. Assiniboine with brown rock bands; viewer’s right in the sun’s light and viewer’s left in the shade. Beyond the mountain are hills and valleys of pink, blue and green. The sky is a very deep shade of purple and blue.

Subject: landscape; mountains; Mt. Assiniboine

Credit: Gift of Rene Thibault, 2009

Catalogue Number: ThR.05.01

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On Lake O’Hara

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Artist: Rene Thibault (1947 – )

Date: 2009

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Catalogue Number: ThR.12.01

Description: General colours of blue, grey, turquoise, violet, pink, green, white, black and brown. The painting is dominated by a frontal view of Mount Yukness as seen from the shoreline of Lake O’Hara. In the foreground is a grey, blue rocky shore with rocks, water and tree trunks. On the viewer’s left are th…

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Artist: Rene Thibault (1947 – )

Title: On Lake O’Hara

Date: 2009

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 61.0 x 61.0 cm

Description: General colours of blue, grey, turquoise, violet, pink, green, white, black and brown. The painting is dominated by a frontal view of Mount Yukness as seen from the shoreline of Lake O’Hara. In the foreground is a grey, blue rocky shore with rocks, water and tree trunks. On the viewer’s left are three large dead tree trunks, painted in black, brown, grey and violet, lying on grey rocks interspersed with blue water puddles; the topmost tree trunk has branches, the lower two do not. To the viewer’s right two tree trunks are lying on the rocky shore; the bottom tree trunk, which extends further out in the water, has four branches and beneath this is the artist’s signature “Rene Thibault” in black. About one-quarter up from the shore and tree trunks there are three coniferous trees to the viewer’s left, and then a rock in the water with coniferous trees growing on it. Beyond this, viewer’s left, is the lake and opposite shore; the lake has shadows of black, blue, grey extending to turquoise blue and grey further out and to the opposite shore at the base of Mt. Yukness. Beyond the foreground tree trunks, mid- and to to viewer’s right, darker grey rocks are visible through the water. On the viewer’s right the water becomes more turquoise as it reaches a bank beyond comprised of grey rock, a line of coniferous trees in greens and black, and a few grey tree trunks lying on the shore. The face of Mount Yukness comprises the majority of the painting (top two-thirds). The lower part of the mountain is painted in darker greys and blues except for the moraine from the falls which is light grey. The uppermost part with the Yukness Ledges and peak are painted grey, white, pink and blue. The sky behind is painted in grey with bold strokes of white and lighter greys simulating clouds.

Subject: landscape; mountains; Lake O’Hara

Credit: Gift of Rene Thibault, 2009

Catalogue Number: ThR.12.01

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Acrylic; Mixed Media Painting

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Artist: Lynne Huras

Date: 2009

Medium: mixed media, mainly acrylic on paper

Catalogue Number: HsL.12.01

Description: In the centre of the square painting a walking black bear looks down at the ground. Behind the bear is a slope of green trees with a blue mountain beyond, viewer’s right. The sky above is grey and the whole scene is bordered in brown. In the top corner, viewer’s right, is a paw print on a taupe-col…

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Artist: Lynne Huras

Title: Acrylic; Mixed Media Painting

Date: 2009

Medium: mixed media, mainly acrylic on paper

Dimensions: 22 x 22 cm

Description: In the centre of the square painting a walking black bear looks down at the ground. Behind the bear is a slope of green trees with a blue mountain beyond, viewer’s right. The sky above is grey and the whole scene is bordered in brown. In the top corner, viewer’s right, is a paw print on a taupe-coloured background, surrounded by a black square. Printed on the top back of the painting “BLACK BEAR - STUDY/SKETCH (2009)” underneath in script “Lynne Huras”, and underneath this “ACRYLIC, ACRYLIC MEDIUM, DRY PASTEL ON PAPER”.

Subject: landscape; mountain; animal, bear

Credit: Purchased from Lynne Huras, Banff, 2010

Catalogue Number: HsL.12.01

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Acrylic; Mixed Media Painting

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Artist: Lynne Huras

Date: 2009

Medium: acrylic; mixed media on paper

Catalogue Number: HsL.12.02

Description: In the centre of the square painting a walking brown and black grizzly bear looks toward viewer’s right. Behind him are blue/grey rocks, grey sky and a blue and grey blue mountain beyond, viewer’s right. The scene is bordered in dark brown and in the top corner, viewer’s left, is a grizzly paw pri…

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Artist: Lynne Huras

Title: Acrylic; Mixed Media Painting

Date: 2009

Medium: acrylic; mixed media on paper

Dimensions: 22 x 22 cm

Description: In the centre of the square painting a walking brown and black grizzly bear looks toward viewer’s right. Behind him are blue/grey rocks, grey sky and a blue and grey blue mountain beyond, viewer’s right. The scene is bordered in dark brown and in the top corner, viewer’s left, is a grizzly paw print on a taupe-coloured background, bordered with black. Printed on the top back of the painting “GRIZZLY - STUDY/SKETCH (2009)” underneath in script “Lynne Huras”, and underneath this “ACRYLIC, ACRYLIC MEDIUM, DRY PASTEL ON PAPER”.

Subject: landscape; mountain; animal, grizzly bear

Credit: Purchased from Lynne Huras, Banff, 2010

Catalogue Number: HsL.12.02

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The Diva Takes a Bow

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Artist: Maureen Enns (1949 – , Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: charcoal on primed paper

Catalogue Number: EnM.03.02

Description: A charcoal drawing of a black horse with head down is drawn in 3/4 view emerging from the left side of the paper. It’s hooves are left unfinished and dissolve into loose wisps. It’s mane is loose and flowing.

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Artist: Maureen Enns (1949 – , Canadian)

Title: The Diva Takes a Bow

Date: 2009

Medium: charcoal on primed paper

Dimensions: 101.6 x 76.2 cm

Description: A charcoal drawing of a black horse with head down is drawn in 3/4 view emerging from the left side of the paper. It’s hooves are left unfinished and dissolve into loose wisps. It’s mane is loose and flowing.

Subject: horse

Credit: Purchased from Maureen Enns, Cochrane, 2022

Catalogue Number: EnM.03.02

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Calf

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Artist: Joseph Fafard (1942 – 2019, Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: bronze; paint

Catalogue Number: FaO.06.02

Description: A cast bronze sculpture of a calk. The calf is painted black with a white tip on its tail. Both ears have a bolt through them. The left ear has a tag that reads “FAFARD 2009”

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Artist: Joseph Fafard (1942 – 2019, Canadian)

Title: Calf

Date: 2009

Medium: bronze; paint

Dimensions: 105.0 x 37.0 x 121.0 cm

Description: A cast bronze sculpture of a calk. The calf is painted black with a white tip on its tail. Both ears have a bolt through them. The left ear has a tag that reads “FAFARD 2009”

Subject: calf; animal

Credit: Gift of Neil and Edith MacGillivray, Canmore, 2023

Catalogue Number: FaO.06.02

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Lily Watching a Hiker

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Artist: Maureen Enns (1949 – , Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: drawing on paper

Catalogue Number: EnM.03.01

Description: A charcoal drawing of a bear. The bear in the foreground dominates the drawing. It is looking out of frame to the viewers left. To the left of and behind the bear is a large mountain peak that dominates the majority of the background space. A smaller peak can be seen behind the bear on the right. …

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Artist: Maureen Enns (1949 – , Canadian)

Title: Lily Watching a Hiker

Date: 2009

Medium: drawing on paper

Dimensions: 74.0 x 53.5 cm

Description: A charcoal drawing of a bear. The bear in the foreground dominates the drawing. It is looking out of frame to the viewers left. To the left of and behind the bear is a large mountain peak that dominates the majority of the background space. A smaller peak can be seen behind the bear on the right. Au verso there is a gold sticker with black print in the centre at the bottom that reads, “Masters Gallery ltd (sic)”. “Lily Watching a Hiker 2009” is written in blue ink in the top right corner.

Subject: bear; mountain; Maureen Enns

Credit: Gift of Lois Green, 2012

Catalogue Number: EnM.03.01

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Landscape 232

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Artist: Norman Yates (1923 – 2014, Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Catalogue Number: YaN.12.01

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Artist: Norman Yates (1923 – 2014, Canadian)

Title: Landscape 232

Date: 2009

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 136.5 x 224.0 cm

Subject: landscape; mountain; water

Credit: Gift of Norman Yates, Victoria, 2013

Catalogue Number: YaN.12.01

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Mountain Talk

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on arches

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.33

Description: A mountain peak rises from the centre of the work, painted in white with detail rendered in black. The sky is yellow, and is filled with loosely rendered white clouds.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Mountain Talk

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on arches

Dimensions: 56.2 x 76.5 cm

Description: A mountain peak rises from the centre of the work, painted in white with detail rendered in black. The sky is yellow, and is filled with loosely rendered white clouds.

Subject: landscape; mountains

Credit: Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.33

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Sister’s Snow

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on arches paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.40

Description: Three white mountain peaks sit in the left, and are intersected with stripes of grey. The sky is painted in tones of red.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Sister’s Snow

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on arches paper

Dimensions: 27.7 x 75.7 cm

Description: Three white mountain peaks sit in the left, and are intersected with stripes of grey. The sky is painted in tones of red.

Subject: landscape; mountains

Credit: Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.40

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Mountain Moon Talk

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on arches paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.41

Description: A mountain peak rises from the bottom centre, rising from the mountain is a yellow wash which moves into a clouded sky. At the top centre is a mountain, and it is flanked by a dark sky with stars.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Mountain Moon Talk

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on arches paper

Dimensions: 56.6 x 37.9 cm

Description: A mountain peak rises from the bottom centre, rising from the mountain is a yellow wash which moves into a clouded sky. At the top centre is a mountain, and it is flanked by a dark sky with stars.

Subject: landscape; mountains

Credit: Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.41

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Day Pause

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour and pearlescent acrylic on arches paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.47

Description: Hanging from the top centre are two bare branches, with red berries and snow hanging at the ends. The background of the work is painted with silver pealescent acrylic in dots to represent snow.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Day Pause

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour and pearlescent acrylic on arches paper

Dimensions: 28.6 x 76.3 cm

Description: Hanging from the top centre are two bare branches, with red berries and snow hanging at the ends. The background of the work is painted with silver pealescent acrylic in dots to represent snow.

Subject: landscape; mountains

Credit: Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.47

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Bowl of Fire (Gros Morne, NL)

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on arches paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.05.51

Description: The foreground is a green rolling hill, behind which is a orange long mountain with the rays of a sun rising over the right side. The sky is a shade of yellow.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Bowl of Fire (Gros Morne, NL)

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on arches paper

Dimensions: 28.3 x 76 cm

Description: The foreground is a green rolling hill, behind which is a orange long mountain with the rays of a sun rising over the right side. The sky is a shade of yellow.