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The First Step Beyond

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.03.02

Description: Colour: black on white. A cowering figure at centre is surrounded by three hands at the right (one hand becoming a face) and a large face and two black figures to the left and above.Au verso: THE FIRST STEP BEYOND

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: The First Step Beyond

Date: 1969

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 30.8 x 45.6 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. A cowering figure at centre is surrounded by three hands at the right (one hand becoming a face) and a large face and two black figures to the left and above.Au verso: THE FIRST STEP BEYOND

Subject: figure, male; mythological

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: StS.03.02

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Just Playing

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.03.04

Description: Colour: black on white. At viewer’s left and forefront, a man,is facing left and sitting on an oil drum. He is is wearing a cap, shirt, jeans and cowboy boots and is playing a guitar. Behind the man and toward viewer’s right is a telephone pole with a figure of a man hanging from a rope. In the bac…

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Just Playing

Date: 1969

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.5 x 37.0 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. At viewer’s left and forefront, a man,is facing left and sitting on an oil drum. He is is wearing a cap, shirt, jeans and cowboy boots and is playing a guitar. Behind the man and toward viewer’s right is a telephone pole with a figure of a man hanging from a rope. In the background are a gentle range of hills.Au verso printed in pencil “JUST PLAYING”, rhtc “115” encircled, blhc “20” encircled with “25” on top

Subject: figures, male; Indigenous

Credit: Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: StS.03.04

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White Buffalo

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.03.07

Description: Colour: black on white. In the centre is a seated black figure with white hair and one hand visble. To the viewer’s right stands an aged figure wearing a white cloak/blanket and leaning on a cane. In the distance towards the viewer’s lower left are eleven black bison and one white.Au verso: tlhc en…

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: White Buffalo

Date: 1969

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 35.3 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. In the centre is a seated black figure with white hair and one hand visble. To the viewer’s right stands an aged figure wearing a white cloak/blanket and leaning on a cane. In the distance towards the viewer’s lower left are eleven black bison and one white.Au verso: tlhc encircled “90” vestige of former drawing visible

Subject: figure, group; animal, buffalo

Credit: Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: StS.03.07

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Clouds

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: felt marker on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.03.08

Description: One central large facial image (on top of which is an arm and smaller face) under which is a beak and eye of a bird, two hands and a third and final facial image below that in the shape of a C off centre to the viewer’s left bottom. Vestiges of former drawing showing through.Au verso: “CLOUDS” brhc…

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Clouds

Date: 1969

Medium: felt marker on paper

Dimensions: 30.8 x 45.6 cm

Description: One central large facial image (on top of which is an arm and smaller face) under which is a beak and eye of a bird, two hands and a third and final facial image below that in the shape of a C off centre to the viewer’s left bottom. Vestiges of former drawing showing through.Au verso: “CLOUDS” brhc encircled “35” topped by encircled “6”

Subject: face, human; animal, bird; mythological

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

Catalogue Number: StS.03.08

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Foot of Three Sisters

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Artist: Joseph Francis Plaskett (1918 – 2014, Canadian)

Date: 1968

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: PlJ.03.01

Description: General colour: black, blue, brown on grey paper. Mountains go into the distance from right to left diagonally upper to lower area. Sky is dark blue with flames of yellow on grey.

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Artist: Joseph Francis Plaskett (1918 – 2014, Canadian)

Title: Foot of Three Sisters

Date: 1968

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 49.7 x 65.9 cm

Description: General colour: black, blue, brown on grey paper. Mountains go into the distance from right to left diagonally upper to lower area. Sky is dark blue with flames of yellow on grey.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Purchased from Joseph Francis Plaskett, 1972

Catalogue Number: PlJ.03.01

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Wapiti print 1968

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Artist: Betty Trimmer

Date: 1968

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: TrB.03.01

Description: Black markings on a white ground.

Artist: Betty Trimmer

Title: Wapiti print 1968

Date: 1968

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 41.7 x 68.7 cm

Description: Black markings on a white ground.

Subject: abstract; animal, elk

Credit: Gift of Whites Grocery, Banff, 1969

Catalogue Number: TrB.03.01

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Mount Assiniboine

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Artist: Mignon Fox Linck

Date: 1968

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: LiM.03.01

Description: A pen and ink drawing of Mount Assiniboine. This drawing was used as a vignette in the publication 'American Alpine Journal' 1968 page 59.

Artist: Mignon Fox Linck

Title: Mount Assiniboine

Date: 1968

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 16.5; 28 x 24; 35.3 cm

Description: A pen and ink drawing of Mount Assiniboine. This drawing was used as a vignette in the publication 'American Alpine Journal' 1968 page 59.

Subject: landscape; mountains; animal, horse; packtrain

Credit: Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1973

Catalogue Number: LiM.03.01

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Abstract Sketch

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: 1967

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.02

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Abstract Sketch

Date: 1967

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 15.2 x 8.3 cm

Subject: abstract; non-representational

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

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.02

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Northwest Ridge of North Twin

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Artist: Mignon Fox Linck

Date: 1966

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: LiM.03.03

Description: A mountain range in background, clouds hanging over mountains; flat valley bottom, could be a lake, evergreen trees line edge of valley/lake on right centre. Crop lines and 44%; page 104. On back AAJ 1966. P. 104. American Alpine Journal.

Artist: Mignon Fox Linck

Title: Northwest Ridge of North Twin

Date: 1966

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.2 cm

Description: A mountain range in background, clouds hanging over mountains; flat valley bottom, could be a lake, evergreen trees line edge of valley/lake on right centre. Crop lines and 44%; page 104. On back AAJ 1966. P. 104. American Alpine Journal.

Subject: landscape, mountains; river

Credit: Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1986

Catalogue Number: LiM.03.03

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Bow Lake

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1963

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.06

Description: General colour: pencil on white. Two points of land come in from left and right respectively with water in between and behind. The far shore starts quarter way up and becomes a mountain left of enter and right banks up each side. Sketchy clouds appear to be raining left and right.

Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1963

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 32.3 x 40.1 cm

Description: General colour: pencil on white. Two points of land come in from left and right respectively with water in between and behind. The far shore starts quarter way up and becomes a mountain left of enter and right banks up each side. Sketchy clouds appear to be raining left and right.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountains; lake

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.06

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: ink on vellum

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.778

Description: Silhouettes of a group of animals on a stretcher in mid-air with birds flying around them. A helicopter is above and a mountain range below. The background is filled in with a black ink to resemble the sky.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1962

Medium: ink on vellum

Dimensions: 27.0 x 21.0 cm

Description: Silhouettes of a group of animals on a stretcher in mid-air with birds flying around them. A helicopter is above and a mountain range below. The background is filled in with a black ink to resemble the sky.

Subject: moose; deer; bear; squirrel; rabbit; birds; helicopter; stretcher; flying; mountains; mountain range; rescue

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.778

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.782

Description: Boxed off there is a quick sketch of a Christmas card that was potentially used during 1962. There is a helicopter lifting a group of animals up on a stretcher and flying them out of a mountain range. verso: Another boxed off sketch of the helicopter flying a group of animals out on a stretcher, wi…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1962

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 27.6 x 21.3 cm

Description: Boxed off there is a quick sketch of a Christmas card that was potentially used during 1962. There is a helicopter lifting a group of animals up on a stretcher and flying them out of a mountain range. verso: Another boxed off sketch of the helicopter flying a group of animals out on a stretcher, with a mountain range below them. Written by the bottom edge of the paper “Howard O’Hagan. Parks Need Protection - Nove 11 Colonist read Wild America Page 57”

Subject: helicopter; rescue; flying; rope; moose; mountains; mountain range; stretcher

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.782

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Untitled

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Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1986

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.05

Description: Colour: black on white. Four trees stand at the bottom left of center. Beyond are hills and mountains clear sky across the upper third.

Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1986

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 21.5 x 26.5 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. Four trees stand at the bottom left of center. Beyond are hills and mountains clear sky across the upper third.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.05

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Untitled

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Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1986

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.06

Description: Colour: black on white. Lower third is bare slope - no markings. The upper two thirds are rock cliffs leaning to the right. Clear sky is in the upper left corner.

Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1986

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 21.5 x 26.5 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. Lower third is bare slope - no markings. The upper two thirds are rock cliffs leaning to the right. Clear sky is in the upper left corner.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1971

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.06

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Untitled

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Artist: Mignon Fox Linck

Date: c. 1966

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: LiM.03.04

Description: A range of mountains dominates the centre width of picture, behind them is a dark sky with clouds; in the foreground a packtrain is moving from bottom right to centre on the valley floor. Pencil notations on left edge of paper.

Artist: Mignon Fox Linck

Title: Untitled

Date: c. 1966

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 9.5 x 27.5 cm

Description: A range of mountains dominates the centre width of picture, behind them is a dark sky with clouds; in the foreground a packtrain is moving from bottom right to centre on the valley floor. Pencil notations on left edge of paper.

Subject: landscape, mountains; animal, horse; packtrain

Credit: Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1986

Catalogue Number: LiM.03.04

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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