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Poaching a Ram

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 1989

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: SmA.02.01

Description: A figure in centre front, dressed in a buckskin shirt, blue pants and a floppy hat, is pulling a laden sled, the trail vanishes into the distance, a mountain range in background, a mountainside with trees to the right, a full moon is in the top left of picture in a dark sky

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Poaching a Ram

Date: 1989

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 45.7 x 35.6 cm

Description: A figure in centre front, dressed in a buckskin shirt, blue pants and a floppy hat, is pulling a laden sled, the trail vanishes into the distance, a mountain range in background, a mountainside with trees to the right, a full moon is in the top left of picture in a dark sky

Subject: characters; Jimmy Simpson; landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of Jon Whyte, Banff, 1992

Catalogue Number: SmA.02.01

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O’Hara

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: 1977

Medium: watercolour on board

Catalogue Number: SpB.05.01

Description: blue circle with tree trunk in the middle and mountain scene behind the tree in the circle

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: O’Hara

Date: 1977

Medium: watercolour on board

Dimensions: 20.5 x 20.5 cm

Description: blue circle with tree trunk in the middle and mountain scene behind the tree in the circle

Subject: Lake O’Hara; Spohr; tree; mountain

Credit: Gift of Michael Laub, Banff, 2016

Catalogue Number: SpB.05.01

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Cascade Mountain

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.03

Description: General colour: blue, green, red brown. In the lower third are buildings and a road. The building in the center flies a flag. Behind the town of Banff are trees and a mountain rises up to a peak right of center at the top. Clouded sky comes down with sides a third.

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Cascade Mountain

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 45.5 x 61.0 cm

Description: General colour: blue, green, red brown. In the lower third are buildings and a road. The building in the center flies a flag. Behind the town of Banff are trees and a mountain rises up to a peak right of center at the top. Clouded sky comes down with sides a third.

Subject: mountain; architecture; Rocky Mountains; Cascade Mountain; urban; Banff

Credit: Gift of Mrs J. C, Reed, 1972

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.03

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Massive Range

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: 1942

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.07

Description: General colour: purple, blue and yellow. Foreground - flowers, grass, a log lies left to center. Poplars with occasional pine, in the distance make a horizon. Three chunks of mountain rise up behind and a grey clouded sky fills the top.

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Massive Range

Date: 1942

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 22.0 x 27.0 cm

Description: General colour: purple, blue and yellow. Foreground - flowers, grass, a log lies left to center. Poplars with occasional pine, in the distance make a horizon. Three chunks of mountain rise up behind and a grey clouded sky fills the top.

Subject: landscape; Rocky Mountains; mountain; Massive Range

Credit: Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1974

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.07

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

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Bow Glacier

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.04

Description: Colour: blue, green. The lower half is green grass with evergreens along the shore of the lake which appears at left of center. The upper half is blue and purple and white mountains. Sky goes along the top.

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Bow Glacier

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 29.0 x 40.0 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green. The lower half is green grass with evergreens along the shore of the lake which appears at left of center. The upper half is blue and purple and white mountains. Sky goes along the top.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Rocky Mountains; glacier; Bow Glacier

Credit: Gift of Mary Hallock, Fort St. James, 1981

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.04

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

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Mount Saskatchewan

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.08

Description: Three Rams are standing on the edge of a cliff looking over the edge out at the mountains in the background. The mountains in the background have many clouds around them and the sky is also very cloudy. There are trees down close to the bottom of the image in the center and the Rams are facing the …

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Mount Saskatchewan

Date: 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 50.0 x 51.0 cm

Description: Three Rams are standing on the edge of a cliff looking over the edge out at the mountains in the background. The mountains in the background have many clouds around them and the sky is also very cloudy. There are trees down close to the bottom of the image in the center and the Rams are facing the left side of the painting with their backs to the right.

Subject: landscape; Rocky Mountains; mountain; animal; mountain sheep

Credit: Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1979

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.08

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Burn Below Storm Mountain

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Date: 1989

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.01

Description: Colours are predominately black, green, white, grey, purple and blue. New-growth evergreens and charred black remnants of trees dominate the painting. Middle third of the painting through the charred trees is Storm Mountain range with mist and cloud obscuring tops of peaks; there is evidence of sno…

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Title: Burn Below Storm Mountain

Date: 1989

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 29.5 x 34.5 cm

Description: Colours are predominately black, green, white, grey, purple and blue. New-growth evergreens and charred black remnants of trees dominate the painting. Middle third of the painting through the charred trees is Storm Mountain range with mist and cloud obscuring tops of peaks; there is evidence of snow on the mountain range and through the trees on the lower slopes. In the top-third, a stormy sky prevails; several dark clouds with vestiges of blue sky showing. The foreground of new-growth trees are painted in different shades of green, mostly light green, darker green in the background and on the slopes. Dominating the viewer’s left is a tree burned black reaching from top to bottom, charred black trees in the middle half reaching up to the mist, and charred black trees on the right reaching from the new-growth forest floor to the top of painting. Viewer’s eye is drawn into the mountain valley foreground to the wooded uphill of seemingly unburned slopes.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; Storm Mountain

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

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.01

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Mt. Temple

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.03

Description: Painting is dominated by Mt. Temple and one spruce tree on the viewer’s left that reaches almost out of the painting. Dominant colours are green, blue, grey, white, and black. Snow, some water and the bank is visible in the immediate lower foreground and the spruce tree rising out of snow to the le…

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Title: Mt. Temple

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 27.0 x 40.5 cm

Description: Painting is dominated by Mt. Temple and one spruce tree on the viewer’s left that reaches almost out of the painting. Dominant colours are green, blue, grey, white, and black. Snow, some water and the bank is visible in the immediate lower foreground and the spruce tree rising out of snow to the left. A bank of coniferous trees begin on the viewer’s left at the spruce tree and rise steadily to the viewer’s right. Two-thirds of the painting is a snow and ice-covered blue and grey Mt. Temple. The sky is grey and cloudy obscuring the mountain peak. A vestige of blue sky behind the mountain shows through on viewer’s middle right.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; Mt. Temple

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

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.03

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Rundle

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: painting on paper

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.05

Description: A summer scene dominated by Mt. Rundle and the trees that flank Vermilion’s first lake. The dominant colours are light and dark green, black, blue, brown and grey. The foreground is green and brown low vegetation, out of which a line of lodgepole pines, some dead and still standing, rise to two-thi…

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Title: Rundle

Date: 2009

Medium: painting on paper

Dimensions: 29.0 x 38.5 cm

Description: A summer scene dominated by Mt. Rundle and the trees that flank Vermilion’s first lake. The dominant colours are light and dark green, black, blue, brown and grey. The foreground is green and brown low vegetation, out of which a line of lodgepole pines, some dead and still standing, rise to two-thirds of the painting. Starting at the viewer’s far left, at mid-point, the branches of an aspen with green leaves fills the top far left of the painting. Vermilion’s first lake is visible though the lodgepoles and directly behind that, are the dark trees that line its opposite bank. Above the lake the lower slope of Tunnel Mountain is visible to the viewer’s left. The painting is dominated by majestic Mount Rundle, its lower slopes covered with muted green coniferous trees and its sheer rock face in varying shades of grey, blue, and brown. The deep blue sky has a few wisps of white showing through and some light grey clouds to the viewer’s right, above the peaks of the Rundle Range.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; Rundle Mountain

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

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.05

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Stormy Mountain Sky

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.06

Description: A dark, stormy sky, and a large stand of partially burned trees on the viewer’s left, dominate the top two-thirds of the painting. The dominant colours are blue, black, green and brown. In the foreground to the viewer’s right are remnants of stumps and what appears to be fall vegetation, with charr…

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Title: Stormy Mountain Sky

Date: 2009

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 31.3 x 40.0 cm

Description: A dark, stormy sky, and a large stand of partially burned trees on the viewer’s left, dominate the top two-thirds of the painting. The dominant colours are blue, black, green and brown. In the foreground to the viewer’s right are remnants of stumps and what appears to be fall vegetation, with charred tree trunks. To the viewer’s left is a charred stump of a burned tree trunk and above that a large stand of lodgepole pines with charred trunks, but with needles still on the tops of the trees. The stand of trees rise high into the stormy sky. Further away, behind the lodgepole pine trees, is a bank of coniferous trees in various shades of greens, that stretch across the painting. Above that, starting behind and to the right of the lodgepoles, mountains are visible; the first and farthest away, is grey with some snow visible, and then wooded mountains continue to the viewer’s far right to the edge of the painting. The dark, cloudy sky dominates most of the painting.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.06

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Ram River Area

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

Date: c. 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: RuC.01.08

Description: Colour: greens, purple. Grass in the foreground gives way to evergreen forest with the taller trees at the left. Behind in the distance are two purple peaks and grey sky across the upper edge

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

Title: Ram River Area

Date: c. 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 22.2 cm

Description: Colour: greens, purple. Grass in the foreground gives way to evergreen forest with the taller trees at the left. Behind in the distance are two purple peaks and grey sky across the upper edge

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of Dorothy H. Wardle, Sidney, 1976

Catalogue Number: RuC.01.08

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Mountain Landscape, Bow Valley

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

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on panel

Catalogue Number: RuC.02.17

Description: A landscape of the Bow Valley. Mountains are in background with snow. The Bow River runs through the centre of the image. Trees and greenery encompass the lower left of the image.

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

Title: Mountain Landscape, Bow Valley

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on panel

Dimensions: 21 x 26.5 cm

Description: A landscape of the Bow Valley. Mountains are in background with snow. The Bow River runs through the centre of the image. Trees and greenery encompass the lower left of the image.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Bow Valley

Credit: Gift of Charles Reid Foundation, Calgary, 2014

Catalogue Number: RuC.02.17

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Mount Temple, Alberta

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

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on panel

Catalogue Number: RuC.02.18

Description: The image is dominated by a mountain range. The foreground of the image is filled with rock and grass on a hill. The sky is medium blue, with light grey clouds throughout.

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

Title: Mount Temple, Alberta

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on panel

Dimensions: 21 x 26 cm

Description: The image is dominated by a mountain range. The foreground of the image is filled with rock and grass on a hill. The sky is medium blue, with light grey clouds throughout.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Temple Mountain

Credit: Gift of Charles Reid Foundation, Calgary, 2014

Catalogue Number: RuC.02.18

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Opabin Dome, Lake O'Hara

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

Date: 1930 – 1931

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.04

Description: Colour: blue, white, purple. In the lower right section a peak rises four inches up to a large diagonal cloud which runs from upper left to lower right. A second cloud runs underneath it. A small third cloud appears to be breaking off to the upper right corner. Looks like Opabin Dome

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

Title: Opabin Dome, Lake O'Hara

Date: 1930 – 1931

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 10.5 x 13.5 cm

Description: Colour: blue, white, purple. In the lower right section a peak rises four inches up to a large diagonal cloud which runs from upper left to lower right. A second cloud runs underneath it. A small third cloud appears to be breaking off to the upper right corner. Looks like Opabin Dome