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Painting

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Date: n.d.

Material: paint; wood;

Catalogue Number: 107.02.0093 a-f

Description: 6 paintings of various sizes on wooden boards. a) Man in buckskin clothing aiming bow and arrow at distant deer. Beside the man is a grey and white horse. Brown rocks about head height on either side of man. Signed “R.L. Hunter” at centre bottom. b) 51.0 cm x 53.0 cm. Simple painting with 3 unident…

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Title: Painting

Date: n.d.

Material: paint; wood;

Dimensions: 56.0 x 74.0 cm

Description: 6 paintings of various sizes on wooden boards. a) Man in buckskin clothing aiming bow and arrow at distant deer. Beside the man is a grey and white horse. Brown rocks about head height on either side of man. Signed “R.L. Hunter” at centre bottom. b) 51.0 cm x 53.0 cm. Simple painting with 3 unidentifiable animals, likely horses, in green pasture behind black fence. Small pond in upper left and mountains in background. “1975 Frank’s Bay” written on back. c) 43.0 cm x 30.0 cm. Green trees with blue sky above d) 30.5 cm x 40.0 cm. Double sided painting on board. One side is horizontal and features large lake with grey mountains at left and right and blue sky with white clouds above. Reverse is portrait and is a portrait of a woman in left side profile. Woman has short hair, red lipstick, and is wearing a pearl neck;lace and black top. Yellow background behind woman. e) 33.0 cm x 20.0 cm. Lower half of body in multicoloured pants and black shoes. A lake and grey mountains can be seen though the legs. f) 14.0 cm x 17.5 cm. Large lake with grassy foreground with 5 trees. Green and grey mountains in background under blue sky.

Subject: Whyte home; paintings; art; landscape; portrait

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

Catalogue Number: 107.02.0093 a-f

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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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Untitled

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Date: prior to 1980

Material: paper

Catalogue Number: 107.02.1029 a,b

Description: Two pastels both signed blc "P.M. Keefe 1961". A realistic rendering of a. Lake Louise and b. Morraine Lake 20.5 x 16.0

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Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1980

Material: paper

Dimensions: 16.5 x 21.0. cm

Description: Two pastels both signed blc "P.M. Keefe 1961". A realistic rendering of a. Lake Louise and b. Morraine Lake 20.5 x 16.0

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Lake Louise; Morraine Lake

Credit: Purchased from Phyllis Cain, Banff, 1988

Catalogue Number: 107.02.1029 a,b

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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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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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Bow Pass, Early Morning

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.04

Description: General colour: blue, brown on grey. Lower third is blue and brown rocks surrounding a pool of water lower center. Up the left side rises a warm brown rock face. The sky is the grey of the paper and fills the upper right half.

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

Title: Bow Pass, Early Morning

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 29.1 x 38.0 cm

Description: General colour: blue, brown on grey. Lower third is blue and brown rocks surrounding a pool of water lower center. Up the left side rises a warm brown rock face. The sky is the grey of the paper and fills the upper right half.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.04

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Cathedral Mountain

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.23

Description: General colour: grey, blue, black. Dead burnt trees stand on slightly regrown earth at the bottom of the picture. Behind is a mountain with snow slopes and blue cliffs. The upper two thrids is rain clouds. Rain falls center and at the right in the distance.

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 34.2 x 41.8 cm

Description: General colour: grey, blue, black. Dead burnt trees stand on slightly regrown earth at the bottom of the picture. Behind is a mountain with snow slopes and blue cliffs. The upper two thrids is rain clouds. Rain falls center and at the right in the distance.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.23

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Consolation Valley

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.01

Description: General colour: blue, green, brown. Grass and a clump of fur trees are in the lower right area. Water is in the lower left area. Trees on the far shore at the left side. The blue mountain sweeps up from the water at center reaching the upper edge and clouds in the blue sky.

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

Title: Consolation Valley

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 48.2 x 37.3 cm

Description: General colour: blue, green, brown. Grass and a clump of fur trees are in the lower right area. Water is in the lower left area. Trees on the far shore at the left side. The blue mountain sweeps up from the water at center reaching the upper edge and clouds in the blue sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of W. (Mrs.) B. Milne, Nanaimo, 1969

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.01

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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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The Hump, Bow Glacier and Bow Lake

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.14

Description: General colour: brown, blue. As the land across the bottom reaches the lake there are a few short trees mostly on the left. The far shore, one quarter way up has trees in the center and dry rock banks on either side rising up to mountains and glacier left and right of the center peak. The blue sky …

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

Title: The Hump, Bow Glacier and Bow Lake

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 27.9 x 38.0 cm

Description: General colour: brown, blue. As the land across the bottom reaches the lake there are a few short trees mostly on the left. The far shore, one quarter way up has trees in the center and dry rock banks on either side rising up to mountains and glacier left and right of the center peak. The blue sky fills the upper half.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.14

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Molar Pass

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

Date: 1929

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.09

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Rocks in lower left corner sit on a beach which goes along the bottom edge to the right. The water is calm and blue. The far shore slopes up to tall rocky cliffs on the right side. On the left these same cliffs are seen in the distance. The sky is clouded with a bit of …

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

Title: Molar Pass

Date: 1929

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 34.2 x 41.8 cm

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Rocks in lower left corner sit on a beach which goes along the bottom edge to the right. The water is calm and blue. The far shore slopes up to tall rocky cliffs on the right side. On the left these same cliffs are seen in the distance. The sky is clouded with a bit of blue at the upper left of center edge.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.09

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Molar Pass

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

Date: 1954

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.10

Description: General colour: blue, grey. Rocks go along the bottom edge and out from the left in big boulders. These mark the edge of a pool of water. A piece of land with boulders comes out from the right one third up. Behind are blue mountains partly hidden by enveloping clouds.

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

Title: Molar Pass

Date: 1954

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 26.5 x 38.0 cm

Description: General colour: blue, grey. Rocks go along the bottom edge and out from the left in big boulders. These mark the edge of a pool of water. A piece of land with boulders comes out from the right one third up. Behind are blue mountains partly hidden by enveloping clouds.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.10

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Goodsir Plateau

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.02

Description: An overall light brown tones; dark blue river in right foreground and lower centre; the mountains dominate the centre of the picture, some snow, cloudy sky.Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition or publication of the collection, either in whole or in part. Banff Cent…

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

Title: Goodsir Plateau

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 63.5 x 57.1 cm

Description: An overall light brown tones; dark blue river in right foreground and lower centre; the mountains dominate the centre of the picture, some snow, cloudy sky.Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition or publication of the collection, either in whole or in part. Banff Centre catalogue numbers: 81 0335 A; 20688

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.02

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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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Untitled [Bighorn Sheep or Rams]

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

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: RuC.01.09

Description: In the foreground and in the bottom right corner of the painting are two Rams facing the left side of the image. In the background are four more sheep in the upper left corner. The ground is brown and green and the mountain peaks in the distance have snow. The sky is a medium blue colour.

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

Title: Untitled [Bighorn Sheep or Rams]

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 18 x 24 cm

Description: In the foreground and in the bottom right corner of the painting are two Rams facing the left side of the image. In the background are four more sheep in the upper left corner. The ground is brown and green and the mountain peaks in the distance have snow. The sky is a medium blue colour.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; animal; Rams

Credit: Gift of Ralph Palmer, Tenants Harbor, USA, 1998

Catalogue Number: RuC.01.09

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Moraine Lake, Valley of the Ten Peaks

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

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.261

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

Title: Moraine Lake, Valley of the Ten Peaks

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.1 x 30.1 cm

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.261

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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.