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Bow Lake

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

Date: 1963

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.06

Description: General colour: pencil on white. Two points of land come in from left and right respectively with water in between and behind. The far shore starts quarter way up and becomes a mountain left of enter and right banks up each side. Sketchy clouds appear to be raining left and right.

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

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1963

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 32.3 x 40.1 cm

Description: General colour: pencil on white. Two points of land come in from left and right respectively with water in between and behind. The far shore starts quarter way up and becomes a mountain left of enter and right banks up each side. Sketchy clouds appear to be raining left and right.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountains; lake

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.06

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Road to the Ice

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 1993

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: SmA.02.02

Description: Undulating shapes in shades of brown form the mountainside full frame, green foliage in bottom left corner, from blc a grey road winds up hill. White of the glacier at top left and at bottom right. On back of painting: Road to the Ice Columbia Icefield oil on location August 4, 1993

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Road to the Ice

Date: 1993

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 30.6 x 40.8 cm

Description: Undulating shapes in shades of brown form the mountainside full frame, green foliage in bottom left corner, from blc a grey road winds up hill. White of the glacier at top left and at bottom right. On back of painting: Road to the Ice Columbia Icefield oil on location August 4, 1993

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier; Reframing the Landscape

Credit: Purchased from Alice Saltiel, Canmore, 1994

Catalogue Number: SmA.02.02

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Lake Minnewanka

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Date: 1990

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.02

Description: Colours are predominantly green, grey, purple, brown, blue and white. The foreground, which is one-third of painting, is snow, ice on the shores of blue water, mid-to right are different sizes and colours of boulders. Pine trees with sparse and feathery needles rise from behind the boulders and rea…

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Title: Lake Minnewanka

Date: 1990

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 29.5 x 34.9 cm

Description: Colours are predominantly green, grey, purple, brown, blue and white. The foreground, which is one-third of painting, is snow, ice on the shores of blue water, mid-to right are different sizes and colours of boulders. Pine trees with sparse and feathery needles rise from behind the boulders and reach up to the sky on viewer’s right hand side. The tree furthest to the right reaches the top of the painting. Trees on the shoreline stretch across the middle and rise uphill to almost the top of the painting on viewer’s left. A rocky ridge can be seen on the slope leading up to the left. The sky is white, grey, some blue and brown clouds, suggesting impending snow.

Subject: landscape; mountain lake; Canadian Rockies; Lake Minnewanka

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

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.02

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Wapiti print 1968

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Artist: Betty Trimmer

Date: 1968

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: TrB.03.01

Description: Black markings on a white ground.

Artist: Betty Trimmer

Title: Wapiti print 1968

Date: 1968

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 41.7 x 68.7 cm

Description: Black markings on a white ground.

Subject: abstract; animal, elk

Credit: Gift of Whites Grocery, Banff, 1969

Catalogue Number: TrB.03.01

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Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Catherine Perehudoff Fowler (1958 – , Canadian)

Date: 1992

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Catalogue Number: PeC.12.01

Description: A realistic rendering of a portion of Lake O'Hara, the foregound is a mass of colours, grasses and flowers, the lake is below centre from the left , the right side is covered with foliage, the mountains rise behind the lake to top left edge, the right top corner is sky

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Artist: Catherine Perehudoff Fowler (1958 – , Canadian)

Title: Lake O'Hara

Date: 1992

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 122.0 x 122.0 cm

Description: A realistic rendering of a portion of Lake O'Hara, the foregound is a mass of colours, grasses and flowers, the lake is below centre from the left , the right side is covered with foliage, the mountains rise behind the lake to top left edge, the right top corner is sky

Subject: landscape; mountain; Lake O'Hara; lake; summer

Credit: Purchased from Catherine Perehudoff Fowler, Saskatoon, 1992

Catalogue Number: PeC.12.01

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Athabasca Glacier

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Artist: Catherine Perehudoff Fowler (1958 – , Canadian)

Date: 1993

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: PeC.05.01

Description: The glacier is centred top, flowing down to the foreground, flanked on both sides by the mountain in colours of brown, yellow, grey, green. The light blue sky is cloudy.

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Artist: Catherine Perehudoff Fowler (1958 – , Canadian)

Title: Athabasca Glacier

Date: 1993

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 56.0 x 76.0 cm

Description: The glacier is centred top, flowing down to the foreground, flanked on both sides by the mountain in colours of brown, yellow, grey, green. The light blue sky is cloudy.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier; Athabasca

Credit: Purchased from Catherine Perehudoff Fowler, Saskatoon, 1994

Catalogue Number: PeC.05.01

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Hot Afternoon

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Artist: Catherine Perehudoff Fowler (1958 – , Canadian)

Date: 1990

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: PeC.05.02

Description: landscape painting from the foothills, the foothills in the foreground, mountains in the background middle, and the top half of the painting is clouds.

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Artist: Catherine Perehudoff Fowler (1958 – , Canadian)

Title: Hot Afternoon

Date: 1990

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 55.9 x 76.2 cm

Description: landscape painting from the foothills, the foothills in the foreground, mountains in the background middle, and the top half of the painting is clouds.

Subject: foothills; mountains; clouds

Credit: Gift of Catherine Perehudoff Fowler, Saskatoon, 2017

Catalogue Number: PeC.05.02

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Old Town

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1880

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.02

Description: Scene of houses and dwellings, grey brown with brown roof. - pale blue sky, with a pale brown/yellow sun in the center.“The houses in this (probably English) town extend onto a stone bridge but there is some confusion in architectural structure and progression. A rather static figure, centre left, …

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Old Town

Date: c. 1880

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 16.5 x 18.5 cm

Description: Scene of houses and dwellings, grey brown with brown roof. - pale blue sky, with a pale brown/yellow sun in the center.“The houses in this (probably English) town extend onto a stone bridge but there is some confusion in architectural structure and progression. A rather static figure, centre left, is further evidence of an early date for this painting.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.02

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Maple Creek, Border of Alberta

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1875

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.43

Description: Scene of grassy field leading to the distance with the red roof of some houses seen.“This very yellow landscape appears to have been an early experiment, lacking Collings’ finesse and resulting in ‘rubbed’ paper in the left portion of the sky.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Rai…

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Maple Creek, Border of Alberta

Date: c. 1875

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 13.5 x 19 cm

Description: Scene of grassy field leading to the distance with the red roof of some houses seen.“This very yellow landscape appears to have been an early experiment, lacking Collings’ finesse and resulting in ‘rubbed’ paper in the left portion of the sky.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape; yellow

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1986

Catalogue Number: CoJ.05.43

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Big Bear Medicine

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Artist: Dale Auger (1958 – 2008, Canadian)

Date: 1998

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Catalogue Number: AuD.12.01

Description: A large painting of an Indigenous dressed as a bear. The man’s face is visible through the mouth of the bear fur that covers him. The man’s eyes are hidden by shadows. Yellow and black paint is on the rest of his face. In the claws, the man holds a wand-like stick, at the tip of which are four …

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Artist: Dale Auger (1958 – 2008, Canadian)

Title: Big Bear Medicine

Date: 1998

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 92.5 x 92.5 cm

Description: A large painting of an Indigenous dressed as a bear. The man’s face is visible through the mouth of the bear fur that covers him. The man’s eyes are hidden by shadows. Yellow and black paint is on the rest of his face. In the claws, the man holds a wand-like stick, at the tip of which are four feathers. These are in the blc of the image. On either side of the bear’s head are patches of aquamarine.

Subject: religious; Indigenous; animal; bear

Credit: Purchased from Bernie Makokis, St. Paul, 2001

Catalogue Number: AuD.12.01

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Drawing on Peaks

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Artist: David Alexander (1947 – , Canadian)

Date: 1998

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Catalogue Number: AxD.12.01

Description: brown, blue and orange mountain peak

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Artist: David Alexander (1947 – , Canadian)

Title: Drawing on Peaks

Date: 1998

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 172.72 x 121.92 cm

Description: brown, blue and orange mountain peak

Subject: mountain; peak

Credit: Gift of David T. Alexander, Lake Country, 2017

Catalogue Number: AxD.12.01

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Hecate Strait From Sandspit

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.08

Description: General colour: brown, green, blue. Foreground beach is covered with logs and continues up the right side to a point with fall evergreens on it. The green water fills the central area. Distant blue hills come out at the right from behind the trees. The sky is grey blue.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Hecate Strait From Sandspit

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 33.3 x 46.9 cm

Description: General colour: brown, green, blue. Foreground beach is covered with logs and continues up the right side to a point with fall evergreens on it. The green water fills the central area. Distant blue hills come out at the right from behind the trees. The sky is grey blue.

Subject: landscape; sea; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.08

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Untitled

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1961

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.15

Description: General colour: green, blue. In the lower half are five figures to the left and a stand of teepee poles to the right. Across the middle are five buildings. Behind them are trees, mountains in the distance and blue grey sky above. Signed lr: “E. Lamarque 1961”

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1961

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 35.5 x 50.1 cm

Description: General colour: green, blue. In the lower half are five figures to the left and a stand of teepee poles to the right. Across the middle are five buildings. Behind them are trees, mountains in the distance and blue grey sky above. Signed lr: “E. Lamarque 1961”

Subject: landscape; mountains; architecture, rural; figure, group; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.15

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Running the Lower Grand Rapids, Athabasca R.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.63

Description: Foreground, green, white, grey choppy water with rocks and sparse evergreens among rocky banks. Four figures in a boat are mid-to viewer’s right., a dark, gloomy sky overhead.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Running the Lower Grand Rapids, Athabasca R.

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 39.1 x 56.5 cm

Description: Foreground, green, white, grey choppy water with rocks and sparse evergreens among rocky banks. Four figures in a boat are mid-to viewer’s right., a dark, gloomy sky overhead.