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Oil Painting

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Date: 1968

Material: paint; board; wood

Catalogue Number: 107.02.0079 a,b

Description: Two paintings signed by Harvey Baptiste. a) simple painting on canvas board. Large green field with brown cliffs in front and blue mountains and sky in background. b) very detailed parting of small lake with trees around it and mountain in background. Impressionist style. Painting is 19.5 cm x 23.5…

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Title: Oil Painting

Date: 1968

Material: paint; board; wood

Dimensions: 30.0 x 40.0 cm

Description: Two paintings signed by Harvey Baptiste. a) simple painting on canvas board. Large green field with brown cliffs in front and blue mountains and sky in background. b) very detailed parting of small lake with trees around it and mountain in background. Impressionist style. Painting is 19.5 cm x 23.5 cm and is in a thick blond wood frame. Size with frame is: 32.0 cm x 37.0 cm. Writing on back reads: “THE FLOOTING CLOUDS HARVEY [“AUBREY” is crossed out] BAPTISTE, MAY 14, 68”

Subject: Whyte home; art; paintings; landscapes

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

Catalogue Number: 107.02.0079 a,b

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Purse

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Date: 1950 – 1960

Material: hair, sheep

Catalogue Number: 103.08.0062

Description: A rectangular, flat, red wool bag with pink, orange, yellow, green and white narrow stripes between three vertical red and white patterned bands. The purse has a green tassel at each of the bottom corners and a pink tassel at the middle of each side and the bottom.

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Title: Purse

Date: 1950 – 1960

Material: hair, sheep

Dimensions: 15.0 x 19.5 cm

Description: A rectangular, flat, red wool bag with pink, orange, yellow, green and white narrow stripes between three vertical red and white patterned bands. The purse has a green tassel at each of the bottom corners and a pink tassel at the middle of each side and the bottom.

Subject: households; crafts; weaving; needlework

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 103.08.0062

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Purse

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Date: 1890 – 1910

Material: metal; skin; fibre

Catalogue Number: 103.08.0161

Description: A brown suede purse which hangs by two straps from a fabric belt. There is a small money holder with a metal frame that fits inside a pocket. The money holder fastens with two snaps. The lining of the purse is stamped with a patent note.

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Title: Purse

Date: 1890 – 1910

Material: metal; skin; fibre

Dimensions: 24.0 x 1.0 x 14.5 cm

Description: A brown suede purse which hangs by two straps from a fabric belt. There is a small money holder with a metal frame that fits inside a pocket. The money holder fastens with two snaps. The lining of the purse is stamped with a patent note.

Subject: tourism

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 103.08.0161

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Purse

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Date: 1965 – 1970

Material: skin; fibre

Catalogue Number: 103.08.0241

Description: A grey leather, commercially tanned, handmade purse, distinguished by a pocket in the front which contains two small papoose figures with hand painted faces. The purse has two parallel flaps which flop over the top and tie, and a very long pair of shoulder straps. Part of the sewing is cotton, part…

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Title: Purse

Date: 1965 – 1970

Material: skin; fibre

Dimensions: 25.0 x 8.5 x 30.0 cm

Description: A grey leather, commercially tanned, handmade purse, distinguished by a pocket in the front which contains two small papoose figures with hand painted faces. The purse has two parallel flaps which flop over the top and tie, and a very long pair of shoulder straps. Part of the sewing is cotton, part of it is sinew. The bag contains a piece of sinew.

Subject: Indigenous; figure; papoose

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

Catalogue Number: 103.08.0241

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Okanagan Lake

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Artist: (Sir) William Cornelius Van Horne (1843 – 1915, Canadian)

Date: 1890

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: VhW.02.01

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Artist: (Sir) William Cornelius Van Horne (1843 – 1915, Canadian)

Title: Okanagan Lake

Date: 1890

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 43.5 x 75 cm

Subject: landscape, lake; architecture, rural

Credit: Gift of Esso Resources Ltd., 1980

Catalogue Number: VhW.02.01

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Storm In the Foothills

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

Date: 1963

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: LaC.02.02

Description: General colour: purple, green. The lower half of the picture is green hills in front with bushes. One clump noticably right of center. Purple hills behind with mist in the hollows. The upper half is snow capped mauve mountains, green, pink and purple arched sky, above which on the left side is rain…

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

Title: Storm In the Foothills

Date: 1963

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 59.6 x 74.9 cm

Description: General colour: purple, green. The lower half of the picture is green hills in front with bushes. One clump noticably right of center. Purple hills behind with mist in the hollows. The upper half is snow capped mauve mountains, green, pink and purple arched sky, above which on the left side is raining on the hills below.