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Mount Biddle at Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American)

Date: 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: HbA.02.01

Description: General colour: lower canvas: greens and purples, upper canvas: blues and purples. In the foreground there is water surrounded by rocks. In the middle ground there are trees rising to a mountain face which goes to the top of the canvas. Cloudy sky appears in the upper left corner.

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Artist: Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American)

Title: Mount Biddle at Lake O'Hara

Date: 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 87 x 76.5 cm

Description: General colour: lower canvas: greens and purples, upper canvas: blues and purples. In the foreground there is water surrounded by rocks. In the middle ground there are trees rising to a mountain face which goes to the top of the canvas. Cloudy sky appears in the upper left corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Lake O'Hara; Mount Biddle

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: HbA.02.01

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

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Late Afternoon

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Artist: Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American)

Date: 1924

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: HbA.02.05

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Artist: Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American)

Title: Late Afternoon

Date: 1924

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 90.5 x 100 cm

Subject: landscape, mountains, river; winter

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

Catalogue Number: HbA.02.05

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Mount Edith

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

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: LaC.02.04

Description: Mountain scene with large prominent peak [Mt. Edith] at right centre. brown rocky slopes with sparse trees on either side, forming a large canyon. a river is in the foreground at the bottom of the canyon. blue sky with pink showing underneath sparsely applied paint. signed “A.C. Leighton bottom” ri…

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

Title: Mount Edith

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 60.0 x 76.0 cm

Description: Mountain scene with large prominent peak [Mt. Edith] at right centre. brown rocky slopes with sparse trees on either side, forming a large canyon. a river is in the foreground at the bottom of the canyon. blue sky with pink showing underneath sparsely applied paint. signed “A.C. Leighton bottom” right corner. plaque on back of frame reads “Mount Edith, 1928 by A. C. Leighton” and a paper label adds “Banff” to the above.

Subject: mount edith; mountains; banff; landscape

Credit: Gift of Robert Fulton, Calgary, 2021

Catalogue Number: LaC.02.04

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Baker Creek

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.01

Description: General colour: blue, purple, green. Creek is surrounded on all sides by snow covered rocks and shrubs. The water comes down from the upper right of center to the lower center and of right near the bottom. In the lower left corner is a bare branched bush. Across the top is snow covered evergreens. …

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Baker Creek

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 90.2 x 100.2 cm

Description: General colour: blue, purple, green. Creek is surrounded on all sides by snow covered rocks and shrubs. The water comes down from the upper right of center to the lower center and of right near the bottom. In the lower left corner is a bare branched bush. Across the top is snow covered evergreens. Clear sky and a distant hill in the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; winter; Baker Creek

Credit: Gift of Evelyn Browne, Durham, USA, 1968

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.01

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No-See-Um Creek

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.02

Description: General colour: blue. Creek runs diagonally up from lower left corner. Snow covered trees place horizontal live two-thirds up from the bottom. Distant mountains are seen behind trees.

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: No-See-Um Creek

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 76.5 x 63.5 cm

Description: General colour: blue. Creek runs diagonally up from lower left corner. Snow covered trees place horizontal live two-thirds up from the bottom. Distant mountains are seen behind trees.

Subject: landscape; mountain; winter; No-See-Um Creek; Rocky Mountains

Credit: Gift of Evelyn Browne, Durham, USA, 1968

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.02

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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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When the Ice Goes Out

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: BwB.01.01

Description: General colour: green, grey. Rocky point of land comes down to the water from the lower left corner across the lower edge to right center. The green water has chunks of ice floating on it. The far shore of trees, one third up, rises quickly to two mountains. One is to the right the other in the dis…

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: When the Ice Goes Out

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 23 x 28 cm

Description: General colour: green, grey. Rocky point of land comes down to the water from the lower left corner across the lower edge to right center. The green water has chunks of ice floating on it. The far shore of trees, one third up, rises quickly to two mountains. One is to the right the other in the distance at center. The grey sky fills the upper corner.

Subject: landscape; lake; mountains; Lake Minnewanka; Mount Inglismaldie

Credit: Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1970

Catalogue Number: BwB.01.01

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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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Lake McArthur

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

Date: 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: RuC.02.02

Description: General colour: blues and mauves, greens and browns in lower right. Lake and rocks fill lower half of the canvas left and right respectively. A glacier rises to the left from center of the lake and becomes mountain to the top of the canvas. There is sky in the upper right corner.

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

Title: Lake McArthur

Date: 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 105.0 x 126.0 cm

Description: General colour: blues and mauves, greens and browns in lower right. Lake and rocks fill lower half of the canvas left and right respectively. A glacier rises to the left from center of the lake and becomes mountain to the top of the canvas. There is sky in the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

Credit: Gift of Alfred Castle, Hawaii, 1973

Catalogue Number: RuC.02.02

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Lake O'Hara

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

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: RuC.02.04

Description: General colour: lower half - green, upper half - blues, purples. A lake fills lower half of canvas. There's a cluster of trees in the lower left corner.Half way up is the far shore of trees rising to mountains. The center of the canvas leads to distant mountain and sky. In the lower right corner ar…

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

Title: Lake O'Hara

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 76.0 x 91.0 cm

Description: General colour: lower half - green, upper half - blues, purples. A lake fills lower half of canvas. There's a cluster of trees in the lower left corner.Half way up is the far shore of trees rising to mountains. The center of the canvas leads to distant mountain and sky. In the lower right corner are three rocks.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; Lake O'Hara

Credit: Purchased from Dorothy H. Wardle, Sidney, 1978

Catalogue Number: RuC.02.04

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

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Moose

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

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: RuC.02.14

Description: A bull moose, left of centre, turned to the left with head up looks out, he is standing in tall grass on a slope which is most of foreground, some burned trees are standing among a few small evergreens, in the background is a snow covered mountain, the very top line of the painting is sky

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

Title: Moose

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 74.5 x 100.5 cm

Description: A bull moose, left of centre, turned to the left with head up looks out, he is standing in tall grass on a slope which is most of foreground, some burned trees are standing among a few small evergreens, in the background is a snow covered mountain, the very top line of the painting is sky

Subject: landscape, mountain; landscape, with animals; animal, moose

Credit: Gift of Anne Harbison, 1979

Catalogue Number: RuC.02.14

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Mount Rundle, April

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

Date: c. 1927

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: RuC.02.07

Description: Mount Rundle is seen top left of centre behind a row of coniferous trees and shrubs

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

Title: Mount Rundle, April

Date: c. 1927

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 21.5 x 26.5 cm

Description: Mount Rundle is seen top left of centre behind a row of coniferous trees and shrubs

Subject: landscape, mountain; landscape, Mount Rundle

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: RuC.02.07

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Untitled (Study for Lake McArthur)

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

Date: 1924

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: RuC.01.10

Description: A landscape rendered in shades of blue, mauve and taupe. The lower right is filled with a rise of rock. A glacier rises to the left from center of the lake. A mountain range dominates the upper section of the canvas, with the sky visible on the upper right.

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

Title: Untitled (Study for Lake McArthur)

Date: 1924

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 24 x 33 cm

Description: A landscape rendered in shades of blue, mauve and taupe. The lower right is filled with a rise of rock. A glacier rises to the left from center of the lake. A mountain range dominates the upper section of the canvas, with the sky visible on the upper right.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Lake McArthur

Credit: Gift of Peter Poole, Banff, 2013

Catalogue Number: RuC.01.10

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[Mabel?]

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

Date: c. 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.432

Description: an unfinished painting of a woman wearing a red lei. She is painted in 3/4 view facing to viewers left. HEr brown hair is in a ponytail at the nape of her neck.

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

Title: [Mabel?]

Date: c. 1934

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 63.0 x 53.0 cm

Description: an unfinished painting of a woman wearing a red lei. She is painted in 3/4 view facing to viewers left. HEr brown hair is in a ponytail at the nape of her neck.

Subject: portrait; woman; Hawai’i

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.432

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Oil Painting

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

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.17

Description: Oil portrait of a women with short, medium brown hair and fair skin in profile. She is wearing a brown garment that blends with the background that she is situated in, which is split vertically off-center to the right; the left side of the background is a deep green colour, while the right side is …

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

Title: Oil Painting

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 53.0 x 43.0 cm

Description: Oil portrait of a women with short, medium brown hair and fair skin in profile. She is wearing a brown garment that blends with the background that she is situated in, which is split vertically off-center to the right; the left side of the background is a deep green colour, while the right side is a light brown. The bottom edge of the painting is unfinished.

Subject: portrait; woman

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.17

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Oil Painting

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

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.02.16

Description: Oil portrait of a man with short, dark hair, painted from the shoulders up in three-quarter view. He is wearing a dark red garment. He has fair skin, brown eyes and rosy cheeks. He is situated in front of a dark brown background.

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

Title: Oil Painting

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 53.0 x 43.0 cm

Description: Oil portrait of a man with short, dark hair, painted from the shoulders up in three-quarter view. He is wearing a dark red garment. He has fair skin, brown eyes and rosy cheeks. He is situated in front of a dark brown background.