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Rock Pools, York River

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Artist: A.J. Casson (1898 – 1992)

Date: 1957

Medium: painting on paper

Catalogue Number: CaA.05.01

Description: A watercolour landscape painting. A large dark green/blue pool in the centre is surrounded by rocks and dominates the painting. Just above and to the left is another small pool. The rocks surrounding the pool are beige and brown with dark blue accents and outlines. There are a couple small patches …

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Artist: A.J. Casson (1898 – 1992)

Title: Rock Pools, York River

Date: 1957

Medium: painting on paper

Dimensions: 27.0 x 34.0 cm

Description: A watercolour landscape painting. A large dark green/blue pool in the centre is surrounded by rocks and dominates the painting. Just above and to the left is another small pool. The rocks surrounding the pool are beige and brown with dark blue accents and outlines. There are a couple small patches of green grass amongst the rocks. Faint pencil marks of letters can be seen scattered on rocks and pencil marks of outline sketch. The artist signature is in the bottom rhc, “A.J.CASSON”. Au verso there are two stickers. The one in the top left corner is brown with black print, “ROBERTS GALLERY LIMITED Dealers in Fine Paintings and Frames since 1842 641 YONGE ST. - - - TORONTO. Title: ROCK POOLS - YORK RIVER - 1957 Artist: A.J. CASSON Price: $175.00 Stock No: 3858b Height: 10 7/8 Width: 13 5/8”. The other sticker is white with green ink and blue pen and is in the top rhc, “ROBERTS GALLERY LIMITED 641 YONGE STREET TORONTO M4Y 1Z9 MUSEUM MAT (has blue pen check mark beside) MUSEUM BACK (check mark beside) WC mounted INSPECTED BY: (illegible signature) BY ARTIST”.

Subject: rock pool; A.J. Casson

Credit: Gift of David McClintock Denovan, Calgary, 2012

Catalogue Number: CaA.05.01

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Airdrie, Alberta

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

Date: 1957

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.24

Description: General colour: blue grey, brown, pink. Two elevators stand at the right side on the horizon. A train chugs past on the left. The foreround is brown fields - a fence appears from the left. The sky fills the upper two thirds and is spotted with clouds.

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

Title: Airdrie, Alberta

Date: 1957

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 27.8 cm

Description: General colour: blue grey, brown, pink. Two elevators stand at the right side on the horizon. A train chugs past on the left. The foreround is brown fields - a fence appears from the left. The sky fills the upper two thirds and is spotted with clouds.

Subject: architecture, rural; landscape, prairie

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.24

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Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, British Columbia

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

Date: 1957

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.19

Description: General colour: brown, grey. A row of eight trees crosses the picture - the foliage filling the upper left area and across the middle. Two or three figures can be seen in the left area. Back ground image is somewhat vague. The sky is cloudless.

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

Title: Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, British Columbia

Date: 1957

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 27.8 cm

Description: General colour: brown, grey. A row of eight trees crosses the picture - the foliage filling the upper left area and across the middle. Two or three figures can be seen in the left area. Back ground image is somewhat vague. The sky is cloudless.

Subject: seascape, Pacific; trees

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.19

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Cadboro Bay Yacht Club, Victoria, British Columbia

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

Date: 1957 – 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.20

Description: General colour: grey. Lower edge is sand with birds - posts go out into the water at an angle from the right to left - there is a buoy or marker at the end.The horizon is one third up. Land can be seen out from the right side. The sky is filled with clouds.

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

Title: Cadboro Bay Yacht Club, Victoria, British Columbia

Date: 1957 – 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 26.6 cm

Description: General colour: grey. Lower edge is sand with birds - posts go out into the water at an angle from the right to left - there is a buoy or marker at the end.The horizon is one third up. Land can be seen out from the right side. The sky is filled with clouds.

Subject: seascape, Pacific; skyline

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.20

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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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Mount Balfour from Bow Pass

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

Date: 1954

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.08

Description: General colour: grey, blue. The foreground rocks and boulders go into the picture to the right. A hill comes down on the left. In the background, filling most of the right side are rock pinnacles running off the top of the picture. In the upper left is blue sky.

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

Title: Mount Balfour from Bow Pass

Date: 1954

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 31.2 cm

Description: General colour: grey, blue. The foreground rocks and boulders go into the picture to the right. A hill comes down on the left. In the background, filling most of the right side are rock pinnacles running off the top of the picture. In the upper left is blue sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.08

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Oak Bay From Boathouse, Victoria, B.C

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

Date: 1957 – 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.18

Description: General colour: blue, grey. A walkway with a fence runs in a crescent shape from lower center left to a third the way up the right side. A tree fills the left side and several more trees and a large white building fill the middle. Tide is out and figures walk the beach left and on the board walk al…

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

Title: Oak Bay From Boathouse, Victoria, B.C

Date: 1957 – 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 24.0 x 31.0 cm

Description: General colour: blue, grey. A walkway with a fence runs in a crescent shape from lower center left to a third the way up the right side. A tree fills the left side and several more trees and a large white building fill the middle. Tide is out and figures walk the beach left and on the board walk also. Sky has clouds.

Subject: seascape, Pacific; architecture, urban

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.18

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Old Wreck near Sidney, B.C.

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

Date: 1958 – 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.21

Description: General colour: grey, blue. The beach runs along the bottom and up the left side a third. The wrecked timbers of a boat lie on the beach left of center. Posts go out into the water from the right side. The sky is filled with clouds. The sea is calm.

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

Title: Old Wreck near Sidney, B.C.

Date: 1958 – 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 27.9 cm

Description: General colour: grey, blue. The beach runs along the bottom and up the left side a third. The wrecked timbers of a boat lie on the beach left of center. Posts go out into the water from the right side. The sky is filled with clouds. The sea is calm.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.21

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River at Cahair - Limerick - Tipperery Road S. Ireland

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

Date: 1953

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.30

Description: A stone bridge runs across a river. The river runs from the centre of the painting on the left and extends into the distance. It curves to the left around the river bank. A train crosses the bridge. Smoke is being expelled from the train. On the right of the painting are four or five leafless …

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

Title: River at Cahair - Limerick - Tipperery Road S. Ireland

Date: 1953

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: A stone bridge runs across a river. The river runs from the centre of the painting on the left and extends into the distance. It curves to the left around the river bank. A train crosses the bridge. Smoke is being expelled from the train. On the right of the painting are four or five leafless trees. Along the close side of the river bank is a walkway with moorings or black pylons. Hazy trees are visible in the upper portion of the painting.

Subject: landscape; river; transportation; train; Ireland; Limerick

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 2001

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.30

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Kananaskis Lakes

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

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.404

Description: A blue lake is centre foreground surrounded by mountains. Evergreen trees in both right and left foreground. Cloudy sky.

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

Title: Kananaskis Lakes

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.7 cm

Description: A blue lake is centre foreground surrounded by mountains. Evergreen trees in both right and left foreground. Cloudy sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; lake; forest

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.404

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Untitled

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

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: waterc olour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.01

Description: Located in the top right corner of the paper there is a pink flower. This flower has been painted using different shades of pink for highlights and darker shades in the shadow areas. Some violet has been used at the base of the flower. In the lower left corner are two more flowers with heavy outli…

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

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: waterc olour on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 21.5 cm

Description: Located in the top right corner of the paper there is a pink flower. This flower has been painted using different shades of pink for highlights and darker shades in the shadow areas. Some violet has been used at the base of the flower. In the lower left corner are two more flowers with heavy outlines made from a graphite pencil. These flowers are also pink. They have green and yellow stems and centers. The remainder of the paper is blank.

Subject: botanical; flowers

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.01

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Untitled

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

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.02

Description: Along the top edge of the paper is a green leaf with three stems that have purple and pink flowers at the ends. The flowers are hanging down toward the bottom of the paper. Located in the tlc is a pink and yellow flower facing the left edge of the paper. In the middle and positioned a bit to the ri…

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

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 21.5 x 27.6 cm

Description: Along the top edge of the paper is a green leaf with three stems that have purple and pink flowers at the ends. The flowers are hanging down toward the bottom of the paper. Located in the tlc is a pink and yellow flower facing the left edge of the paper. In the middle and positioned a bit to the right there is another flower light green/brown, pink and yellow in colour with a medium to dark blue center. A small square shape has been drawn with graphite at the center left of the paper. The remainder of the paper is blank.

Subject: botanical; flowers

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.05.02

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Kootenay Mts. near Marble Canyon

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Artist: Clarence Ingwall Tillenius (1913 – 2012, Canadian)

Date: 1956

Medium: watercolor on paper

Catalogue Number: TiC.05.02

Description: In the center of this image there is a low area of land green in colour with a bit of a rise on both sides. Dark green trees follow the land on both sides and create a line meeting in the center. Behind the trees and above them in the distance are purple, blue mountains with snow peaked tops. The …

Artist: Clarence Ingwall Tillenius (1913 – 2012, Canadian)

Title: Kootenay Mts. near Marble Canyon

Date: 1956

Medium: watercolor on paper

Dimensions: 23.0 x 30.6 cm

Description: In the center of this image there is a low area of land green in colour with a bit of a rise on both sides. Dark green trees follow the land on both sides and create a line meeting in the center. Behind the trees and above them in the distance are purple, blue mountains with snow peaked tops. The sky above everything is partly grey and dark and other parts are a light yellow and orange colour.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996

Catalogue Number: TiC.05.02

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Canyons Of Muskwa, Northern B.C.

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

Date: prior to 1970

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.04

Description: General colour: green, blue, brown. Boulders and rock face rise up on left and right side. Water winds up from bottom center towards left side and disappears around the bend. Blue and white mountains peek over the foreround rocks. Beyond is clouded blue sky.

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

Title: Canyons Of Muskwa, Northern B.C.

Date: prior to 1970

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 30.5 x 46.7 cm

Description: General colour: green, blue, brown. Boulders and rock face rise up on left and right side. Water winds up from bottom center towards left side and disappears around the bend. Blue and white mountains peek over the foreround rocks. Beyond is clouded blue sky.

Subject: landscape; mountains; river, Muskwa; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.04

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Stony Rapid, Athabasca River

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

Date: 1955

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.12

Description: General colour: green. Four men are rowing while one poles a long barge up from the bottom left through turbulent water. Another boat moves across to the left on the right side near the trees which cut the picture horizontally in half. Above the trees is sky.signed lr: “E.C.W.Lamarque 1955”

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

Title: Stony Rapid, Athabasca River

Date: 1955

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 42.2 x 52.4 cm

Description: General colour: green. Four men are rowing while one poles a long barge up from the bottom left through turbulent water. Another boat moves across to the left on the right side near the trees which cut the picture horizontally in half. Above the trees is sky.signed lr: “E.C.W.Lamarque 1955”

Subject: landscape; river; boating; group, males; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.12

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Finlay Forks, B.C.

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

Date: 1954

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.62

Description: Foreground blue water; what appears to be a small island mid-centre, a pile of brush in the water viewer’s right. Black tree trunks and some sparse vegetation beyond, two buildings viewer’s left with blue mountains beyond; a dark grey sky overhead.

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

Title: Finlay Forks, B.C.

Date: 1954

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 39.2 x 56.8 cm

Description: Foreground blue water; what appears to be a small island mid-centre, a pile of brush in the water viewer’s right. Black tree trunks and some sparse vegetation beyond, two buildings viewer’s left with blue mountains beyond; a dark grey sky overhead.

Subject: landscape; river; buildings; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.62

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Fraser River Above Lillooet, B.C.

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

Date: 1950

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.64

Description: A choppy river running between rocky banks viewer’s left, rocks and sparse trees and vegetation viewer’s right, mountains in middle, cloudy sky overhead.

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

Title: Fraser River Above Lillooet, B.C.

Date: 1950

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 39.4 x 56.5 cm

Description: A choppy river running between rocky banks viewer’s left, rocks and sparse trees and vegetation viewer’s right, mountains in middle, cloudy sky overhead.