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Celebration in Remembrance

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: 1927

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.22

Description: Scene of a boat blue/rusting in colour with waves exploding up around its sides reaching twice the height of the boat in the air - the sky is a pale grey colour.“Collings used cold colours in this starkly observed drama. The air is filled with pale puffs of explosives while white jets of water burs…

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Celebration in Remembrance

Date: 1927

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22 x 15.5 cm

Description: Scene of a boat blue/rusting in colour with waves exploding up around its sides reaching twice the height of the boat in the air - the sky is a pale grey colour.“Collings used cold colours in this starkly observed drama. The air is filled with pale puffs of explosives while white jets of water burst from what appears to be a fire boat.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape; boat; explosives

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.22

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Winter Tunnel near Sicamous

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: 1927 – 1927

Medium: watercolour on board

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.63

Description: Winter scene with a train tunnel in foreground. Snow and icicles are hanging over the entrance. On back of paper of picture frame were 4 different labels.First is at top left and is light brown in colour: “6. Collins [sic], Charles - ‘Winter; Tunnel on C.P.R. Track’. Lent by Mrs. Jonathan Rogers,…

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Winter Tunnel near Sicamous

Date: 1927 – 1927

Medium: watercolour on board

Dimensions: 38 x 30.5 cm

Description: Winter scene with a train tunnel in foreground. Snow and icicles are hanging over the entrance. On back of paper of picture frame were 4 different labels.First is at top left and is light brown in colour: “6. Collins [sic], Charles - ‘Winter; Tunnel on C.P.R. Track’. Lent by Mrs. Jonathan Rogers, Vancouver. 1920-30Second is top right and is green: “Vancouver Art Gallery - Name of Artist or Owner: Mrs. Jonathan Rogers - Address: 2050 Nelson St - Phone No.: [Indecipherable] - Title of Work: ‘Winter, Tunnel on C.P.R. Track between Sycamous & Winnipeg” - Price or insurable value (if not for sale): $350 - To be pasted on bottom right-hand corner of back of picture.”Third is white with red border: “Mrs. Jonathan Rogers, 2050 Nelson St. Vancouver. No 6, Do not remove wire”.Fourth label is white and from the Alex Fraser Galleries in Vancouver (5669 Granville Street Vancouver 13, B.C. - AM 6-6010, Alex Fraser Formerly of Bond Street, London, England) and is located at bottom: “ ’Winter Tunnel on C.P.R. Track’, Original Water Colour, by Charles John Collings.”

Subject: landscape; watercolour; train tunnel; winter; Charles John Collings

Credit: Gift of Mark Rivette, Vernon, 2015

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.63

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Foothills of the Rockies

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: 1925

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.01

Description: Landscape, colourful rolling foothills in the forground. - in the immediate forground at the bl. is a spot of green brown grasses. - past that is a varying green plateau. - then a spot of trees onward to the purple/blue mountains in the distance. - the sky fades into a yellow to green shade.“Collin…

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Foothills of the Rockies

Date: 1925

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 27.3 x 37 cm

Description: Landscape, colourful rolling foothills in the forground. - in the immediate forground at the bl. is a spot of green brown grasses. - past that is a varying green plateau. - then a spot of trees onward to the purple/blue mountains in the distance. - the sky fades into a yellow to green shade.“Collings typically restricted his darkest tones in this late watercolour to minimal accents -- a streak of rich sienna merging with deep blue which works as a ‘base line’ and his the key to colour relationships in the rest of his picture. The overall pastel tones and broad, open river valley view combine to produce an effect of silent and awesome beauty.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape; water; grass; plateau

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.01

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Landscape

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: 1923

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.49

Description: Watercolour in blues, yellow, red and brown high horizon line sharp edges in blue, yellow sombre sky, large mass of red-brown blending into aqua-blue on lower half of painting, as if to suggest water.

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Landscape

Date: 1923

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 10.5 x 15.5 cm

Description: Watercolour in blues, yellow, red and brown high horizon line sharp edges in blue, yellow sombre sky, large mass of red-brown blending into aqua-blue on lower half of painting, as if to suggest water.

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1986

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.49

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Sketch from Hall Window

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: 1921

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.008

Description: Scene of an avenue or street with potted plants and trees in the forground, also there is one lampost behind the three potted plants. - buildings in the background.

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Sketch from Hall Window

Date: 1921

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 19.5 x 14 cm

Description: Scene of an avenue or street with potted plants and trees in the forground, also there is one lampost behind the three potted plants. - buildings in the background.

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.008

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Marble Halls

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: 1880

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.45

Description: Scene of a valley with outcroppings of dark rust/red rocks to the right and forground right, trees to the left middle, and mountains in the distance.

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Marble Halls

Date: 1880

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 13.5 x 14 cm

Description: Scene of a valley with outcroppings of dark rust/red rocks to the right and forground right, trees to the left middle, and mountains in the distance.

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1986

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.45

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Prince Rupert Mid Day

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1925

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.044

Description: Scene of buildings situated on top of a hill, with some more below these upon appendage-like stilts. - there is one building in the immediate forground right.“A full range of tones evenly dapple this sketch moving the viewer’s eye easily about it. Collings sketched the town from the base of a hall …

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Prince Rupert Mid Day

Date: c. 1925

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.5 x 26 cm

Description: Scene of buildings situated on top of a hill, with some more below these upon appendage-like stilts. - there is one building in the immediate forground right.“A full range of tones evenly dapple this sketch moving the viewer’s eye easily about it. Collings sketched the town from the base of a hall looking up; the result is fresh and spontaneous but clearly exhibits Collings’ superb control and concise line at this late stage of his career.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.044

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Melora

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1890

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.097

Description: Profile portrait of the bust of a woman with her head gazing downwards.“The woman’s head is bowed as though she is preoccupied with something in front of her; perhaps it is the artist’s wife, Mellora, playing the piano. The woman’s eyes and mouth, and tendrils of hair at the nape are treated sensit…

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Melora

Date: c. 1890

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25 x 18 cm

Description: Profile portrait of the bust of a woman with her head gazing downwards.“The woman’s head is bowed as though she is preoccupied with something in front of her; perhaps it is the artist’s wife, Mellora, playing the piano. The woman’s eyes and mouth, and tendrils of hair at the nape are treated sensitively while flowers in the background underscore her femininity.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: portrait; Mellora Collings

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.097

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On the Columbia between Revelstoke and Arrow Lakes

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1925

Medium: graphite on oil paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.106

Description: Scene with a lake in the forground center moving back over sloping forests to the mountain in the background.“It is not surprising that this soft, moody sketch shows some wear as Collings seems to have been travelling by canoe. The artist would have been well into his seventies on this trip.” -- …

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: On the Columbia between Revelstoke and Arrow Lakes

Date: c. 1925

Medium: graphite on oil paper

Dimensions: 26 x 20 cm

Description: Scene with a lake in the forground center moving back over sloping forests to the mountain in the background.“It is not surprising that this soft, moody sketch shows some wear as Collings seems to have been travelling by canoe. The artist would have been well into his seventies on this trip.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape; lake; stream

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1985

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.106

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Pine Portage

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1925

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.112

Description: Scene of a river with swiftly moveing water and with trees to its rear bank.“Collings focused increasingly on the centre of his pictures in his late work, leaving the edges ‘open’ as in this example.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Pine Portage

Date: c. 1925

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 21.5 x 27.5 cm

Description: Scene of a river with swiftly moveing water and with trees to its rear bank.“Collings focused increasingly on the centre of his pictures in his late work, leaving the edges ‘open’ as in this example.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1985

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.112

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Watermill and Waterfall

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Artist: Unknown

Date: c. 1930

Medium: ink and colour on silk; card

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.03

Description: A watermill is in top right of picture, a stone basement, wooden building with a large waterwheel, a waterfall comes tumbling down from wheel; a grassy slope is in the foreground, lake in foreground; a waterfall tumbles down from left top of picture; the paper is gold trimmed; the foldover paper pr…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Watermill and Waterfall

Date: c. 1930

Medium: ink and colour on silk; card

Dimensions: 27.2 x 24.1 cm

Description: A watermill is in top right of picture, a stone basement, wooden building with a large waterwheel, a waterfall comes tumbling down from wheel; a grassy slope is in the foreground, lake in foreground; a waterfall tumbles down from left top of picture; the paper is gold trimmed; the foldover paper presentation cover has Japanese writing: Square Paper for Drawing/painting (translation by Maskao Tani, 8/86). A business card was enclosed in the case: printed: Tsunejiro Miyaoka; handwritten: To Mr. Jack White with kind remembrances, Banff.July 24th 1935.

Subject: landscape; waterfall

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.03

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The Bird Tree

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1880 – 1900

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.06

Description: ornately carved ivory sculpture of a man and a bird under a tree.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: The Bird Tree

Date: 1880 – 1900

Dimensions: 20.8 x 4.7 x 10.0 cm

Description: ornately carved ivory sculpture of a man and a bird under a tree.

Subject: figure, male; animal; mythological

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.06

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Seymour Arm from Plateau

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1925

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.224

Description: Three trees set in foreground right, to left of is a valley with winding path/water. Hills in distance set in centre.“This is a fine example of Collings’ late work. Sweeping curvilinear lines imbue it with a poetic serenity, while the upright lines of a tree on the extreme right serve to stabilize …

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Seymour Arm from Plateau

Date: c. 1925

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20 x 25.5 cm

Description: Three trees set in foreground right, to left of is a valley with winding path/water. Hills in distance set in centre.“This is a fine example of Collings’ late work. Sweeping curvilinear lines imbue it with a poetic serenity, while the upright lines of a tree on the extreme right serve to stabilize the whole. The artist increasingly restricted his darkest tones in his mature work, opening up his pictures and enhancing the impression of vastness so characteristic of his Rocky Mountain scenes.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1983

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.224

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Rusty Disk

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1885

Medium: graphite on paper board

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.071

Description: Drawing of a farming disc, the first few discs are show as the disappear into the piece, and the seat sits high up on the piece.“An unlikely combination of practical entrepreneur and preoccupied artist, Collings was involved with farm machinery sales between 1882 and 1888 in England. A writer who i…

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Rusty Disk

Date: c. 1885

Medium: graphite on paper board

Dimensions: 25 x 30 cm

Description: Drawing of a farming disc, the first few discs are show as the disappear into the piece, and the seat sits high up on the piece.“An unlikely combination of practical entrepreneur and preoccupied artist, Collings was involved with farm machinery sales between 1882 and 1888 in England. A writer who interviewed the artist in 1924 had the impression that Collings envisaged farm equipment as means for creating an enormous painting-like but three-dimensional “landscape.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape; machinery; machine; green; rims; circulars

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.071

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Heavy Seas

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1927

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.19

Description: Scene of five sailboats at varying distance away sailing on a brisk sea of blue/green water, the sky has a shade of darkening blue/grey.“This view of sailboats, apparently racing, is related in mood and handing to Catalogue entry #187. [Celebration in Remembrance CoJ.05.22] Collings used cold tones…

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Heavy Seas

Date: c. 1927

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 15 x 31 cm

Description: Scene of five sailboats at varying distance away sailing on a brisk sea of blue/green water, the sky has a shade of darkening blue/grey.“This view of sailboats, apparently racing, is related in mood and handing to Catalogue entry #187. [Celebration in Remembrance CoJ.05.22] Collings used cold tones in both and rushing water to create a sense of drama.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape; water; boats; sailboats

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.19

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Profile of a Young Girl

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Artist: Unknown

Date: c. 1890

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.02

Description: A graphite sketch of a young girl, sitting in profile. The sketch is in a black and gold frame with a hook at the top for hanging.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Profile of a Young Girl

Date: c. 1890

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 6.0 x 7.0 cm

Description: A graphite sketch of a young girl, sitting in profile. The sketch is in a black and gold frame with a hook at the top for hanging.

Subject: portrait; child; girl

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.02

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Seals

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1920 – 1922

Catalogue Number: UnK.06.34 a-c

Description: Three seals made out of ivory, smallest 1.5 cm, largest 4.2 cm. There is a small hole through each indicating that they were once strung.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Seals

Date: 1920 – 1922

Description: Three seals made out of ivory, smallest 1.5 cm, largest 4.2 cm. There is a small hole through each indicating that they were once strung.