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Camp Many-Haw-Haw-s

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Date: 1930 – 1970

Material: paper; glass; wood

Catalogue Number: 107.02.1027

Description: A mixed media picture of a Girl Guides camp scene. Mountains in the background. Girls are involved in the many camp activities. Signed brc "CJL" Titled "Camp Many-Haw-Haw-s”.

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Title: Camp Many-Haw-Haw-s

Date: 1930 – 1970

Material: paper; glass; wood

Dimensions: 51.0 x 58.5 cm

Description: A mixed media picture of a Girl Guides camp scene. Mountains in the background. Girls are involved in the many camp activities. Signed brc "CJL" Titled "Camp Many-Haw-Haw-s”.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; organization; Girl Guides

Credit: Gift of Unknown, 1968

Catalogue Number: 107.02.1027

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Painting

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Date: 1930 – 1970

Material: paper; glass; wood

Catalogue Number: 107.02.1028

Description: A watercolour of a Girl Guides camp scene. Forest in the background. Girls are involved in the many camp activities. Signed brc "Gail Grady" blc red ribbon with" First Handicraft" printed on it. In tlc is a blue card "Class 1, Age 14, Name Gail Grady, Company or Pack 2nd"

Title: Painting

Date: 1930 – 1970

Material: paper; glass; wood

Dimensions: 49.5 x 57.3 cm

Description: A watercolour of a Girl Guides camp scene. Forest in the background. Girls are involved in the many camp activities. Signed brc "Gail Grady" blc red ribbon with" First Handicraft" printed on it. In tlc is a blue card "Class 1, Age 14, Name Gail Grady, Company or Pack 2nd"

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; organization; Girl Guides

Credit: Gift of Unknown, 1968

Catalogue Number: 107.02.1028

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Yoho Valley

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Artist: A Hunter

Date: 1932

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: HuA.05.01

Artist: A Hunter

Title: Yoho Valley

Date: 1932

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 19.5 x 25.0 cm

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; forest

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: HuA.05.01

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Bow Lake

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

Date: 1930

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.17

Description: General colour: teal green lake, purple tan mountains, grey clouds. Lower right corner there is a group of scraggly trees on rock. The lake fills the lower third. Two bars of sand and grass come in from either side. The mountains sweep up to bluestery clouds which come down over the peeks.

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

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1930

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 33.9 x 44.1 cm

Description: General colour: teal green lake, purple tan mountains, grey clouds. Lower right corner there is a group of scraggly trees on rock. The lake fills the lower third. Two bars of sand and grass come in from either side. The mountains sweep up to bluestery clouds which come down over the peeks.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.17

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Deception Pass

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

Date: 1934

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.22

Description: General colour: brown, blue. Lower two thirds is filled with the dry rock slopes of a mountain which peaks in the upper enter. Blue sky comes down from both upper corners. One large cloud sits upper center.

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

Title: Deception Pass

Date: 1934

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 27.2 x 36.8 cm

Description: General colour: brown, blue. Lower two thirds is filled with the dry rock slopes of a mountain which peaks in the upper enter. Blue sky comes down from both upper corners. One large cloud sits upper center.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.22

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Goodsir Plateau

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

Date: 1937

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.11

Description: General colour: grey, blue, beige, white. There is a lake in the lower left foreground; a cloudy sky in the upper right corner; a glacier rises from the lake left of center; the peaks run off the picture at the left but appear in the distance down towards the right of the picture.

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

Title: Goodsir Plateau

Date: 1937

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 27.5 x 38.0 cm

Description: General colour: grey, blue, beige, white. There is a lake in the lower left foreground; a cloudy sky in the upper right corner; a glacier rises from the lake left of center; the peaks run off the picture at the left but appear in the distance down towards the right of the picture.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.11

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Tinder Den

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

Date: 1937

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.16

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Central image is a man standing in a cart drawn by two horses. Behind this are two elevators. To the left is a fence and in the background another elevator. To the right is a tower and a train steaming by to the right. The sky is blue with a few clouds.

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

Title: Tinder Den

Date: 1937

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 27.0 x 38.0 cm

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Central image is a man standing in a cart drawn by two horses. Behind this are two elevators. To the left is a fence and in the background another elevator. To the right is a tower and a train steaming by to the right. The sky is blue with a few clouds.

Subject: landscape; rural; animal, horse; figure, male

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.16

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Design for pin

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

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil; graphite; charcoal on canvas; board

Catalogue Number: RuC.01.06 a,b

Description: (a) a painting in colours blue, brown. In a circular format, a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are snow-covered mountains in the background and blue sky.(b) a drawing in charcoal and pencil of the above painting: a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretc…

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

Title: Design for pin

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil; graphite; charcoal on canvas; board

Dimensions: 30.5 x 30.5 cm

Description: (a) a painting in colours blue, brown. In a circular format, a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are snow-covered mountains in the background and blue sky.(b) a drawing in charcoal and pencil of the above painting: a skier strides to the left side, left leg stretched out behind. There are mountains in the background.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; activity, skiing; winter; figure, male

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: RuC.01.06 a,b

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Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.360

Description: The bottom half of the picture is the green of a forest, a brown road is centre bottom. Mountain range in background with the top third of the painting a cloudy sky.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Cathedral Mountain from Yoho Valley

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.0 x 30.4 cm

Description: The bottom half of the picture is the green of a forest, a brown road is centre bottom. Mountain range in background with the top third of the painting a cloudy sky.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.360

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[Hanging Gardens of Babylon at West Opabin]

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.387

Description: A green plateau with rocks is in the foreground. Mountain to the left and right middle. The sky has large white clouds.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: [Hanging Gardens of Babylon at West Opabin]

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.8 x 35.5 cm

Description: A green plateau with rocks is in the foreground. Mountain to the left and right middle. The sky has large white clouds.

Subject: landscape; mountain; plateau; skyscape

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.387

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Snow Sketch, Norway

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.388

Description: A sketch of snow and what appears to be openings to water, a river or lake. Dots of paint in yellow and orange along bottom edge.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Snow Sketch, Norway

Date: 1938

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.2 x 33.7 cm

Description: A sketch of snow and what appears to be openings to water, a river or lake. Dots of paint in yellow and orange along bottom edge.

Subject: landscape; snow; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.388

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Pacific Shore, Hawaii

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.390

Description: The foreground is fields of yellow and green. The shoreline is lined with larger trees. A bay of blue water is in the centre from left edge to the right edge. A green mountain is left centre. The sky is cloudy.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Pacific Shore, Hawaii

Date: 1933 – 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.3 cm

Description: The foreground is fields of yellow and green. The shoreline is lined with larger trees. A bay of blue water is in the centre from left edge to the right edge. A green mountain is left centre. The sky is cloudy.

Subject: landscape; seascape; Pacific; mountain; fields; Hawaii

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.390

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Mount Hungabee

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.395

Description: The foreground is layers of rocks in a green colour. Background are blue mountains with a small patch of white centre left. Cloudy sky.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Mount Hungabee

Date: 1935 – 1945

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35.1 cm

Description: The foreground is layers of rocks in a green colour. Background are blue mountains with a small patch of white centre left. Cloudy sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.395

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Unfinished Sketch of Mountains and Lake

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.397

Description: The bottom half of the painting has a small lake surrounded by low hills, with trees and rocks. The top half has outlines of mountains.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Unfinished Sketch of Mountains and Lake

Date: 1935 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.2 cm

Description: The bottom half of the painting has a small lake surrounded by low hills, with trees and rocks. The top half has outlines of mountains.

Subject: landscape; mountain; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.397

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Mount Hungabee

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.398

Description: A large snow covered mountain dominates the centre of the picture. A dark mountain slope is a left bottom. A dead tree rises up to the right of the picture. A cloudy sky.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Mount Hungabee

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.8 x 35.3 cm

Description: A large snow covered mountain dominates the centre of the picture. A dark mountain slope is a left bottom. A dead tree rises up to the right of the picture. A cloudy sky.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.398

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Mountain Lake

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.399

Description: The foreground is a light green lake. Behind it is a low green ridge with blue mountains to the left and right. A cloudy sky. The mountains and sky are reflected in the lake.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Mountain Lake

Date: 1930 – 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.0 cm

Description: The foreground is a light green lake. Behind it is a low green ridge with blue mountains to the left and right. A cloudy sky. The mountains and sky are reflected in the lake.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.399

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The Cliffs of Mount Rundle

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.402

Description: The side of the mountain almost fills the painting. A lone coniferous tree stands in left foreground. The right foreground is unfinished.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: The Cliffs of Mount Rundle

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30.5 x 40.2 cm

Description: The side of the mountain almost fills the painting. A lone coniferous tree stands in left foreground. The right foreground is unfinished.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.402

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A Morning Glory Lake

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1930 – 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.405

Description: A pale blue lake is centered, left foreground slopes down to the right, has yellow grass and green trees. Background is the side of a mountain,light colours, with a brown patch to the right background. No sky showing.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: A Morning Glory Lake

Date: 1930 – 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 15.8 x 16.0 cm

Description: A pale blue lake is centered, left foreground slopes down to the right, has yellow grass and green trees. Background is the side of a mountain,light colours, with a brown patch to the right background. No sky showing.