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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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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.06
Description
General colour: brown, blue. A lake in the center surrounded by dry mountain cliffs. Central peak is right of center and the other is at the left side. The sky is dark in the upper right corner and clouds fill the upper left.
Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Back of Sawback
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
18.5 x 25.3 cm
Description
General colour: brown, blue. A lake in the center surrounded by dry mountain cliffs. Central peak is right of center and the other is at the left side. The sky is dark in the upper right corner and clouds fill the upper left.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.06
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Bow Pass, Early Morning

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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.04
Description
General colour: blue, brown on grey. Lower third is blue and brown rocks surrounding a pool of water lower center. Up the left side rises a warm brown rock face. The sky is the grey of the paper and fills the upper right half.
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Bow Pass, Early Morning
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
29.1 x 38.0 cm
Description
General colour: blue, brown on grey. Lower third is blue and brown rocks surrounding a pool of water lower center. Up the left side rises a warm brown rock face. The sky is the grey of the paper and fills the upper right half.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.04
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.23
Description
General colour: grey, blue, black. Dead burnt trees stand on slightly regrown earth at the bottom of the picture. Behind is a mountain with snow slopes and blue cliffs. The upper two thrids is rain clouds. Rain falls center and at the right in the distance.
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Cathedral Mountain
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
34.2 x 41.8 cm
Description
General colour: grey, blue, black. Dead burnt trees stand on slightly regrown earth at the bottom of the picture. Behind is a mountain with snow slopes and blue cliffs. The upper two thrids is rain clouds. Rain falls center and at the right in the distance.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.23
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.01
Description
General colour: blue, green, brown. Grass and a clump of fur trees are in the lower right area. Water is in the lower left area. Trees on the far shore at the left side. The blue mountain sweeps up from the water at center reaching the upper edge and clouds in the blue sky.
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Consolation Valley
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
48.2 x 37.3 cm
Description
General colour: blue, green, brown. Grass and a clump of fur trees are in the lower right area. Water is in the lower left area. Trees on the far shore at the left side. The blue mountain sweeps up from the water at center reaching the upper edge and clouds in the blue sky.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Credit
Gift of W. (Mrs.) B. Milne, Nanaimo, 1969
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.01
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
LaC.02.01
Description
General colour: brown, blue. Trees in the lower right corner. A mountain slope in the lower left corner. Behind rises a mountain with snow on the brown cliffs becoming blue cliffs in the background. Blue sky with a few clouds in each corner fills the upper area.
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Mount Babel
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
40.2 x 45.3 cm
Description
General colour: brown, blue. Trees in the lower right corner. A mountain slope in the lower left corner. Behind rises a mountain with snow on the brown cliffs becoming blue cliffs in the background. Blue sky with a few clouds in each corner fills the upper area.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Credit
Gift of W. (Mrs.) B. Milne, Nanaimo, 1969
Catalogue Number
LaC.02.01
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.12
Description
General colour: blue, brown. Dry lake fills lower right area. Brown shore comes down from the left side. Across the middle are blue mountains. The sky is blue with pale clouds and fill the upper third.
Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Ghost Lake, Alberta
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25.3 x 32.9 cm
Description
General colour: blue, brown. Dry lake fills lower right area. Brown shore comes down from the left side. Across the middle are blue mountains. The sky is blue with pale clouds and fill the upper third.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
lake
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.12
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The Hump, Bow Glacier and Bow Lake

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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.14
Description
General colour: brown, blue. As the land across the bottom reaches the lake there are a few short trees mostly on the left. The far shore, one quarter way up has trees in the center and dry rock banks on either side rising up to mountains and glacier left and right of the center peak. The blue sky …
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
The Hump, Bow Glacier and Bow Lake
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
27.9 x 38.0 cm
Description
General colour: brown, blue. As the land across the bottom reaches the lake there are a few short trees mostly on the left. The far shore, one quarter way up has trees in the center and dry rock banks on either side rising up to mountains and glacier left and right of the center peak. The blue sky fills the upper half.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.14
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Near Nanton, Alberta

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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.15
Description
General colour: grey, brown, blue. Cattle munch grass along the lower edge. There is a building on the right side, a few trees to its left. Way in the distance are blue mountains. The upper three quarters is clouds.
Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Near Nanton, Alberta
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
18.1 x 23.8 cm
Description
General colour: grey, brown, blue. Cattle munch grass along the lower edge. There is a building on the right side, a few trees to its left. Way in the distance are blue mountains. The upper three quarters is clouds.
Subject
landscape
rural
animal
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.15
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
graphite; pastel on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.03.08
Description
General colour: pencil. Portrait of a young girl. Shoulders turned to the right, head turned out and looking left. She has pigtails and two bead necklaces.
Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
graphite; pastel on paper
Dimensions
22.8 x 30.4 cm
Description
General colour: pencil. Portrait of a young girl. Shoulders turned to the right, head turned out and looking left. She has pigtails and two bead necklaces.
Subject
Portrait
child
Indigenous
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
Catalogue Number
LaC.03.08
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.04.01
Description
General colour: brown, blue. Two brown horses and a white foal run over grass from the left side. In the background to the right is a cowboy on a horse running to the right. The man's arm is raised. Beyond is snow and blue mountains. Blue streaked sky across the top.
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
The Wanderers
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
27.5 x 21.2 cm
Description
General colour: brown, blue. Two brown horses and a white foal run over grass from the left side. In the background to the right is a cowboy on a horse running to the right. The man's arm is raised. Beyond is snow and blue mountains. Blue streaked sky across the top.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
animal, horse
figure, cowboy
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
Catalogue Number
LaC.04.01
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.03.05
Description
General colour: pencil. A barn and a few other buildings sit in the lower sketchy landscape one third up. The upper two thirds are sky with one cloud left of center appearing to rain over the barn.
Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
18.3 x 24.1 cm
Description
General colour: pencil. A barn and a few other buildings sit in the lower sketchy landscape one third up. The upper two thirds are sky with one cloud left of center appearing to rain over the barn.
Subject
landscape
rural
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
Catalogue Number
LaC.03.05
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.03.07
Description
General colour: pencil. Road narrows from bottom edge to center. Scattered telegraph poles run along the left side of the road. A grain elevator stands at the right side.
Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
19.0 x 24.0 cm
Description
General colour: pencil. Road narrows from bottom edge to center. Scattered telegraph poles run along the left side of the road. A grain elevator stands at the right side.
Subject
landscape
prairie
architecture
rural
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
Catalogue Number
LaC.03.07
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
LaC.01.01
Description
General colour: pink. Vague outlines of hills and mountains. some purple shading at center. (unfinished work)
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
50.0 x 65.4 cm
Description
General colour: pink. Vague outlines of hills and mountains. some purple shading at center. (unfinished work)
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
Catalogue Number
LaC.01.01
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.02
Description
An overall light brown tones; dark blue river in right foreground and lower centre; the mountains dominate the centre of the picture, some snow, cloudy sky.Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition or publication of the collection, either in whole or in part. Banff Cent…
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Goodsir Plateau
Date
prior to 1965
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
63.5 x 57.1 cm
Description
An overall light brown tones; dark blue river in right foreground and lower centre; the mountains dominate the centre of the picture, some snow, cloudy sky.Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition or publication of the collection, either in whole or in part. Banff Centre catalogue numbers: 81 0335 A; 20688
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Credit
Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.02
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Artist
Unknown
Date
c. 1945
Medium
oil on canvas paper
Catalogue Number
UnK.02.15
Artist
Unknown
Title
Untitled
Date
c. 1945
Medium
oil on canvas paper
Dimensions
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Subject
Landscape
Canadian Rockies
Credit
Gift of Unknown, 1999
Catalogue Number
UnK.02.15
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Artist
Unknown
Date
prior to 1962
Catalogue Number
UnK.06.78
Description
Very tiny standing owl; carved owl, natural features of the bone emphasizes white front and back, and grey sides, head and feet; drilled round eyes, shaped beak; round hole drilled into bottom of right foot
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Artist
Unknown
Title
Untitled [Owl]
Date
prior to 1962
Dimensions
3.0 x 1.4 cm
Description
Very tiny standing owl; carved owl, natural features of the bone emphasizes white front and back, and grey sides, head and feet; drilled round eyes, shaped beak; round hole drilled into bottom of right foot
Subject
Animal
Owl
Inuit
Credit
Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
Catalogue Number
UnK.06.78
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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
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
UnK.03.15
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Artist
Unknown
Date
c. 1950
Catalogue Number
UnK.06.07
Description
A carved grey and white wooden owl on a tree branch, wooden base painted green.
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Artist
Unknown
Title
Owl
Date
c. 1950
Dimensions
16.0 x 8.0 x 14.5 cm
Description
A carved grey and white wooden owl on a tree branch, wooden base painted green.
Subject
animal, bird
owl
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
UnK.06.07
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Artist
Unknown
Date
prior to 1962
Catalogue Number
UnK.06.30
Description
standing otter; front and back feet pointing foreward, head up; features defined as well as ears; eyes, nostrils and mouth black; tail straight back; natural striped colouring, white and ivory seam runs full length from chin between legs and belly, continues top of tail.
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Artist
Unknown
Title
Otter
Date
prior to 1962
Dimensions
2.9 x 13.7 cm
Description
standing otter; front and back feet pointing foreward, head up; features defined as well as ears; eyes, nostrils and mouth black; tail straight back; natural striped colouring, white and ivory seam runs full length from chin between legs and belly, continues top of tail.
Subject
animal
aquatic
otter
Credit
Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
Catalogue Number
UnK.06.30
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