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Tom Wilson’s Cabin - Kootenay Plains

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Artist: Alex Emond (1950 – , Canadian)

Date: 1996

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: EmA.05.01

Description: A medium size log cabin is surrounded by green grass and trees. The roof of the cabin has grass growing on it and the sky above is gray with many clouds. Most of the trees around this cabin are located at the back and the green grass is in the foreground.

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Artist: Alex Emond (1950 – , Canadian)

Title: Tom Wilson’s Cabin - Kootenay Plains

Date: 1996

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.9 x 35.0 cm

Description: A medium size log cabin is surrounded by green grass and trees. The roof of the cabin has grass growing on it and the sky above is gray with many clouds. Most of the trees around this cabin are located at the back and the green grass is in the foreground.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; architecture; log cabin

Credit: Gift of Alex Emond, Banff, 1997

Catalogue Number: EmA.05.01

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Road to the Ice

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 1993

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: SmA.02.02

Description: Undulating shapes in shades of brown form the mountainside full frame, green foliage in bottom left corner, from blc a grey road winds up hill. White of the glacier at top left and at bottom right. On back of painting: Road to the Ice Columbia Icefield oil on location August 4, 1993

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Road to the Ice

Date: 1993

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 30.6 x 40.8 cm

Description: Undulating shapes in shades of brown form the mountainside full frame, green foliage in bottom left corner, from blc a grey road winds up hill. White of the glacier at top left and at bottom right. On back of painting: Road to the Ice Columbia Icefield oil on location August 4, 1993

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier; Reframing the Landscape

Credit: Purchased from Alice Saltiel, Canmore, 1994

Catalogue Number: SmA.02.02

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Light on the Left Eagle

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 1991

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SmA.05.01

Description: A single mountain dominates, foreground is green trees, snow covered mountain towers to top third, between trees and peak is a bowl, cloudy sky top third

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Light on the Left Eagle

Date: 1991

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 39.0 x 25.3 cm

Description: A single mountain dominates, foreground is green trees, snow covered mountain towers to top third, between trees and peak is a bowl, cloudy sky top third

Subject: landscape; mountain; winter

Credit: Purchased from Sunshine Village, Banff, 1991

Catalogue Number: SmA.05.01

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Exclusive Edition, ASAC Winter Retreat, Lake Louise

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 1990

Medium: serigraph on paper

Catalogue Number: SmA.04.18

Description: A serigraph print of landscape with pale blue mat. Landscape of Lake Louise in the wintertime. In background there is a mountain range with Victoria Glacier. Below mountains is a snow-covered Lake Louise. In the foreground there are two small pine trees both covered with snow. One is far left and t…

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Exclusive Edition, ASAC Winter Retreat, Lake Louise

Date: 1990

Medium: serigraph on paper

Dimensions: 16.0 x 24.0 cm

Description: A serigraph print of landscape with pale blue mat. Landscape of Lake Louise in the wintertime. In background there is a mountain range with Victoria Glacier. Below mountains is a snow-covered Lake Louise. In the foreground there are two small pine trees both covered with snow. One is far left and the other far right with a snow-covered bush beside it. there are tracks on the snow. The print is comprised of seven colours, a palette of soft blue, white, green and brown/yellow. Across the bottom is an artist inscription and title of the work. The artist signature is in the bottom right corner. Au verso there are two large labels. The one on the left is white with black print, “SERIGRAPHY BY SALTIEL” (followed by description of serigraph process) Bottom half of label reads, “ CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY This document certifies that the original serigraph titled : Exclusive Edition, ASAC Winter Retreat, Lake Louise is number A/P #4 of titled, signed and numbered serigraphs in an edition of only 50 plus 13 artist’s proofs. 7 colours have been used to create this image, printed on 100% cotton rag Stonehenge paper. Upon completion the screen is destroyed. Artist’s signature: Saltiel Date completed: November 6, 1990.” The label on the right side is white with black ink and has an image of the artist in the top left corner, see artist bio.

Subject: landscape; winter; Alice Saltiel

Credit: Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2011

Catalogue Number: SmA.04.18

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Icefield Series – B

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Artist: Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian)

Date: 1993

Medium: charcoal; chalk on paper

Catalogue Number: MiB.03.02

Description: Mountain dominates almost full frame, icefield centred top, foreground dark with hint of colours green and brown. Sky blue with tinge of green.

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Artist: Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian)

Title: Icefield Series – B

Date: 1993

Medium: charcoal; chalk on paper

Dimensions: 52.5 x 72.4 cm

Description: Mountain dominates almost full frame, icefield centred top, foreground dark with hint of colours green and brown. Sky blue with tinge of green.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier, Columbia Icefield

Credit: Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 1994

Catalogue Number: MiB.03.02

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Icefield Series – A

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Artist: Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian)

Date: 1993

Medium: charcoal; chalk on paper

Catalogue Number: MiB.03.01

Description: Icefield fans out from centre near top to the foreground. Mountain frames the foreground and both sides with shades of green, yellow and brown. Blue sky has long dark streaks.

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Artist: Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian)

Title: Icefield Series – A

Date: 1993

Medium: charcoal; chalk on paper

Dimensions: 52.5 x 72.4 cm

Description: Icefield fans out from centre near top to the foreground. Mountain frames the foreground and both sides with shades of green, yellow and brown. Blue sky has long dark streaks.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier, Columbia Icefield

Credit: Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 1994

Catalogue Number: MiB.03.01

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Icefield Series - C

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Artist: Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian)

Date: 1993

Medium: charcoal; chalk on paper

Catalogue Number: MiB.03.03

Description: The mountain dominates to almost top of picture. Icefield at top right and down to right foreground. Mountain is mostly black with contours of light and dark with shades of green, brown and yellow. The sky is lightly streaked blue.

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Artist: Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian)

Title: Icefield Series - C

Date: 1993

Medium: charcoal; chalk on paper

Dimensions: 52.5 x 72.5 cm

Description: The mountain dominates to almost top of picture. Icefield at top right and down to right foreground. Mountain is mostly black with contours of light and dark with shades of green, brown and yellow. The sky is lightly streaked blue.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; Columbia Icefield; glacier

Credit: Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 1994

Catalogue Number: MiB.03.03

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Lake Minnewanka

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Date: 1990

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.02

Description: Colours are predominantly green, grey, purple, brown, blue and white. The foreground, which is one-third of painting, is snow, ice on the shores of blue water, mid-to right are different sizes and colours of boulders. Pine trees with sparse and feathery needles rise from behind the boulders and rea…

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Title: Lake Minnewanka

Date: 1990

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 29.5 x 34.9 cm

Description: Colours are predominantly green, grey, purple, brown, blue and white. The foreground, which is one-third of painting, is snow, ice on the shores of blue water, mid-to right are different sizes and colours of boulders. Pine trees with sparse and feathery needles rise from behind the boulders and reach up to the sky on viewer’s right hand side. The tree furthest to the right reaches the top of the painting. Trees on the shoreline stretch across the middle and rise uphill to almost the top of the painting on viewer’s left. A rocky ridge can be seen on the slope leading up to the left. The sky is white, grey, some blue and brown clouds, suggesting impending snow.

Subject: landscape; mountain lake; Canadian Rockies; Lake Minnewanka

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

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.02

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Sixty Dollar Tax View

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Artist: Bill Horne

Date: 1991

Medium: print on paper

Catalogue Number: HoB.04.01

Description: A silkscreen print of a triptych of a mountain landscape. The print consists of three images, each 10.5 x 5.0 cm, and all the same image. They are in a horizontal row on a solid maroon-coloured background. In each of the images a mountain scene is depicted. In the background is a mountain range, th…

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Artist: Bill Horne

Title: Sixty Dollar Tax View

Date: 1991

Medium: print on paper

Dimensions: 35.5 x 25.5 cm

Description: A silkscreen print of a triptych of a mountain landscape. The print consists of three images, each 10.5 x 5.0 cm, and all the same image. They are in a horizontal row on a solid maroon-coloured background. In each of the images a mountain scene is depicted. In the background is a mountain range, the mountains a purple/grey with black and white accents. The sky behind the mountains is a pale baby blue. In the foreground, below the mountains, is a teal blue lake with a burnt orange shoreline with black forest. Nine colours used in the print. Under the print written in pencil is, “4/9 Sixty Dollar Tax View Bill Horne 1991”. On the bottom rhc corner of the print is a silver ink stamp of a Canadian nickel that says, “5 CENTS CANADA 1952”. Au verso, written on the matte in pencil, “$ 60 tax”.

Subject: landscape; lake; mountains; Bill Horne

Credit: Gift of Joanne Thomas , Vancouver, 2012

Catalogue Number: HoB.04.01

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Castle Mountain Siding

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Artist: C. Zollern

Date: 1895

Medium: watercolour; photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: ZoC.13.01

Description: Colour: green, yellow. Three frames inside one. Top picture is a painting of a group of wooden buildings left of center with a flag pole (flag is flying) and antlers on the roof. In front are railway tracks with a team of four workers going along on a cart. Behind is a river with a man fishing in i…

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Artist: C. Zollern

Title: Castle Mountain Siding

Date: 1895

Medium: watercolour; photograph on paper

Dimensions: 34.8 x 47.5 cm

Description: Colour: green, yellow. Three frames inside one. Top picture is a painting of a group of wooden buildings left of center with a flag pole (flag is flying) and antlers on the roof. In front are railway tracks with a team of four workers going along on a cart. Behind is a river with a man fishing in it on the right. On both sides of the river are trees and in the distance are mountains. Sky fills the top. The lower two pictures are photographs. The left is of the first Banff Springs Hotel and Rundle Mountain. The right is looking down the main street of Banff in 1895.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; architecture; rura;

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1974

Catalogue Number: ZoC.13.01

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Battling Moose

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Date: prior to 1905

Medium: photoengraving on paper

Catalogue Number: RuC.11.01

Description: Colour: greys as in a black and white photograph. At the waters edge in the center are two bull moose fighting. To the right, half way up in the background is a female moose looking on. Dead logs and grass fill the lower part of the picture.

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Title: Battling Moose

Date: prior to 1905

Medium: photoengraving on paper

Dimensions: 30.1 x 50.4 cm

Description: Colour: greys as in a black and white photograph. At the waters edge in the center are two bull moose fighting. To the right, half way up in the background is a female moose looking on. Dead logs and grass fill the lower part of the picture.

Subject: landscape; animal, moose

Credit: Gift of W. J. Wright, Kamloops, 1969

Catalogue Number: RuC.11.01

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Iceland, April 1999

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Artist: Catherine Nadia

Date: 1999

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: NaC.18.01

Description: A colour photograph of snow covered waterfalls in Iceland. In the middle of the photograph the waterfalls fall toward the right of the image. In the top left corner the lake or body of water is higher than it is in the bottom right corner. The waterfalls create this difference in height. In the…

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Artist: Catherine Nadia

Title: Iceland, April 1999

Date: 1999

Medium: photograph on paper

Description: A colour photograph of snow covered waterfalls in Iceland. In the middle of the photograph the waterfalls fall toward the right of the image. In the top left corner the lake or body of water is higher than it is in the bottom right corner. The waterfalls create this difference in height. In the centre right of the image two people are standing on a snow-covered outcrop looking out over the waterfalls. Two more people are on a rock ledge below the top of the outcrop. The people are dwarfed by the waterfalls. In the top right corner a snow covered area across from the waterfalls makes a wall and appears to form a chasm or channel with the waterfalls in the top of the image.

Subject: landscape; waterfall; figure; Iceland

Credit: Gift of Catherine Nadia, Canmore, 2000

Catalogue Number: NaC.18.01

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Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Catherine Perehudoff Fowler (1958 – , Canadian)

Date: 1992

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Catalogue Number: PeC.12.01

Description: A realistic rendering of a portion of Lake O'Hara, the foregound is a mass of colours, grasses and flowers, the lake is below centre from the left , the right side is covered with foliage, the mountains rise behind the lake to top left edge, the right top corner is sky

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Artist: Catherine Perehudoff Fowler (1958 – , Canadian)

Title: Lake O'Hara

Date: 1992

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 122.0 x 122.0 cm

Description: A realistic rendering of a portion of Lake O'Hara, the foregound is a mass of colours, grasses and flowers, the lake is below centre from the left , the right side is covered with foliage, the mountains rise behind the lake to top left edge, the right top corner is sky

Subject: landscape; mountain; Lake O'Hara; lake; summer

Credit: Purchased from Catherine Perehudoff Fowler, Saskatoon, 1992

Catalogue Number: PeC.12.01

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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Catherine Perehudoff Fowler (1958 – , Canadian)

Date: 1993

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: PeC.05.01

Description: The glacier is centred top, flowing down to the foreground, flanked on both sides by the mountain in colours of brown, yellow, grey, green. The light blue sky is cloudy.

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Artist: Catherine Perehudoff Fowler (1958 – , Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1993

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 56.0 x 76.0 cm

Description: The glacier is centred top, flowing down to the foreground, flanked on both sides by the mountain in colours of brown, yellow, grey, green. The light blue sky is cloudy.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier; Athabasca

Credit: Purchased from Catherine Perehudoff Fowler, Saskatoon, 1994

Catalogue Number: PeC.05.01

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A Little Ditty Bird

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

Date: c. 1895

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.023

Description: Drawing of a designed goblet standing fully in the center of the page. The area surrounding the goblet has been completely shaded in. The drawing au verso is a nose, ear, and hand study.“The dark background with the still darker goblet allowed Collings to achieve bright metallic-like highlights on …

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

Title: A Little Ditty Bird

Date: c. 1895

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 19 x 12.5 cm

Description: Drawing of a designed goblet standing fully in the center of the page. The area surrounding the goblet has been completely shaded in. The drawing au verso is a nose, ear, and hand study.“The dark background with the still darker goblet allowed Collings to achieve bright metallic-like highlights on the embossed goblet. Barely visible, a tiny, whimsical “Ditty” bird peaks over the lip of the cup.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.023

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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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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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His Haunt

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

Date: 1893

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: CoJ.02.03

Description: Scene in a forest with a stream. Overall green value of the painting, - there is a herring standing in the steam just below center at the narrowest part where the stream seems to drop to a lower level. - dark green shadows across the top of the trees where they appear to canopy the scene. - dark br…

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

Title: His Haunt

Date: 1893

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 45.5 x 30.5 cm

Description: Scene in a forest with a stream. Overall green value of the painting, - there is a herring standing in the steam just below center at the narrowest part where the stream seems to drop to a lower level. - dark green shadows across the top of the trees where they appear to canopy the scene. - dark brown bank to the left of the steam, and a dark green/yellow to the right of the stream.