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Banff Springs Hotel, Rocky Mountains 1887
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- Artist
- C. Firth
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- FiC.05.01
- Description
- Scene showing Banff springs hotel at right perched on a hillside. In the background the Bow River winds through a valley between Tunnel Mountain and Mt. Roundly. More mountains in distance. Trees in foreground. My. Roundly is hazy, almost unfinished in appearance.
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- Artist
- C. Firth
- Title
- Banff Springs Hotel, Rocky Mountains 1887
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.0 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- Scene showing Banff springs hotel at right perched on a hillside. In the background the Bow River winds through a valley between Tunnel Mountain and Mt. Roundly. More mountains in distance. Trees in foreground. My. Roundly is hazy, almost unfinished in appearance.
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy and Jim McLeod, Calgary, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- FiC.05.01
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Bow River NWT, 1887
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactfic.05.02
- Artist
- C. Firth
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- FiC.05.02
- Description
- Large river [The Bow River] with snow-capped mountains at back and stands of conifers on the banks. River winds from left foreground into right background. Stand of trees at right foreground.
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- Artist
- C. Firth
- Title
- Bow River NWT, 1887
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.0 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- Large river [The Bow River] with snow-capped mountains at back and stands of conifers on the banks. River winds from left foreground into right background. Stand of trees at right foreground.
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy and Jim McLeod, Calgary, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- FiC.05.02
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Boats, Wharf at Banff
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactrbc.05.01
- Date
- c. 1939
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- RbC.05.01
- Description
- Close up view of a small dock with 6 small row boats moored in the water next too it. Two additional boats (row or canoes) are upside down on the dock. In the foreground are grasses and a plank at left leading from bank to dock. The background has a grassy bank. Faint “C.R” in lower right corner.
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- Title
- Boats, Wharf at Banff
- Date
- c. 1939
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 23.0 x 30.0 cm
- Description
- Close up view of a small dock with 6 small row boats moored in the water next too it. Two additional boats (row or canoes) are upside down on the dock. In the foreground are grasses and a plank at left leading from bank to dock. The background has a grassy bank. Faint “C.R” in lower right corner.
- Credit
- Gift of Ron Robinson, Nelson, 2023
- Catalogue Number
- RbC.05.01
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Watercolour Painting
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacthac.05.05
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- watercolour; ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HaC.05.05
- Description
- Close up of stone and wood building on mountaintop in center of painting. Ladder leads to wooden platform on top of building. Building painted in blue, brown, and yellow. Washed yellow-blue sky above. Signed “Cyril Harris” lower left corner in red. At bottom is strip of paper with blue bars above a…
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- Title
- Watercolour Painting
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- watercolour; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 38.0 x 26.5 cm
- Description
- Close up of stone and wood building on mountaintop in center of painting. Ladder leads to wooden platform on top of building. Building painted in blue, brown, and yellow. Washed yellow-blue sky above. Signed “Cyril Harris” lower left corner in red. At bottom is strip of paper with blue bars above and beneath with “Presented to N.B. Sanson on the occasion of his THOUSANDTH ASCENT to the OBSERVATORY on the SUMMIT of SULPHUR MOUNTAIN: JULY 1ST 1931.” written in black ink.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- HaC.05.05
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Part of Old Banff
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- Artist
- D. Clark
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- watercolour on heavy paper
- Catalogue Number
- CiD.05.01
- Description
- The oldest known painting of the Banff townsite. It shows Stoney Squaw to the left, Cascade to the right with Brewster in background. A false fronted building in left foreground has Groceries, dry goods, L.C. Fulmer written on front, bigger building to the right foreground Banff Hotel, Keefe, ????.…
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- Artist
- D. Clark
- Title
- Part of Old Banff
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- watercolour on heavy paper
- Dimensions
- 21 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- The oldest known painting of the Banff townsite. It shows Stoney Squaw to the left, Cascade to the right with Brewster in background. A false fronted building in left foreground has Groceries, dry goods, L.C. Fulmer written on front, bigger building to the right foreground Banff Hotel, Keefe, ????. A log structure to centre left, a small red building centre right, five trees in centre, numerous stumps. The grass and trees are green. Along the bottom of the picture is inscribed: Part of original Banff Siding 29? 1888 Cascade Mtn 8K - D Clark, Agent CPR.Siding 29 was established in 1883 at the base of Cascade Mtn. The CPR moved the station to its current Banff location in 1889 and by 1897 all the residents of the old town had moved to the new town of Banff. Eleanor Luxton, Banff Canada’s First National Park... pg. 68
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1974
- Catalogue Number
- CiD.05.01
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Bear Street Alley, Cascade Mountain
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.533
- Date
- 1932 – 1933
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.533
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- Title
- Bear Street Alley, Cascade Mountain
- Date
- 1932 – 1933
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30.1 x 40.4 cm
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- town
- Banff
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.533
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Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.769
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.769
- Description
- Peter is driving their vehicle towards Concord (as depicted in the sign), just below the back end of the vehicle there is an erased sign that pointed to Banff in the opposite direction. There is a band of animals with Peter as he drives. At the bottom of the drawing it says “SEASONS GREETINGS CATHA…
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- Title
- Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 30.4 cm
- Description
- Peter is driving their vehicle towards Concord (as depicted in the sign), just below the back end of the vehicle there is an erased sign that pointed to Banff in the opposite direction. There is a band of animals with Peter as he drives. At the bottom of the drawing it says “SEASONS GREETINGS CATHARINE AND PETER” and “29.1”in the BRC
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.769
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