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Hector Lake, Kicking Horse Pass, BC

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.07

Description: Mountain landscape with large glassy lake in centre of painting. Abstract foliage and stand of dead trees in foreground at right. Brown treed slopes on opposite shore with large snow-capped mountains in distance. Small white and red buildings on far shore of lake. Title written in bottom left corne…

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Title: Hector Lake, Kicking Horse Pass, BC

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 32.8 x 48.0 cm

Description: Mountain landscape with large glassy lake in centre of painting. Abstract foliage and stand of dead trees in foreground at right. Brown treed slopes on opposite shore with large snow-capped mountains in distance. Small white and red buildings on far shore of lake. Title written in bottom left corner. “F.M. Bell-Smith 1887” at bottom right.

Subject: mountains; lake; CPR

Credit: Gift of Mark Cullen, 2021

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.07

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Mount Lefroy N.W.T.

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Artist: Marmaduke Matthews (1837 – 1913, British)

Date: c. 1888

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MaM.05.01

Description: Left foreground evergreen trees on a slope, right foreground from centre left to tr mountain slope with some evergreen trees and burnt out forest. The snow capped mountain is centre right to near top of picture. Mountain range to left. Sky is partly cloudy, streaked with colour. On back in art…

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Artist: Marmaduke Matthews (1837 – 1913, British)

Title: Mount Lefroy N.W.T.

Date: c. 1888

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 15.7 x 35.0 cm

Description: Left foreground evergreen trees on a slope, right foreground from centre left to tr mountain slope with some evergreen trees and burnt out forest. The snow capped mountain is centre right to near top of picture. Mountain range to left. Sky is partly cloudy, streaked with colour. On back in artist's hand: Mt. Lefroy N.W.T. Highest Peak on the C.P.R. line near Abbott Pass, more than 11,000 feet high. Also Twice One fifth less than twice

Subject: Canadian Rockies; Mount Lefroy; CPR

Credit: Gift of Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 1995

Catalogue Number: MaM.05.01

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Kicking Horse Lake Looking East, Hector on the Canadian Pacific Railway

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Artist: William Notman (1826 – 1891)

Date: 1887

Medium: photographic print on paper

Catalogue Number: NoW.18.01

Description: Mountain landscape with large lake dominating the centre. A small white building and storage tank [possibly a refueling station] can be seen on the far side of the lake. Train tracks run the width of foreground and seated figure [known to be Fredrick M. Bell-Smith] at easel in bottom right corner. …

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Artist: William Notman (1826 – 1891)

Title: Kicking Horse Lake Looking East, Hector on the Canadian Pacific Railway

Date: 1887

Medium: photographic print on paper

Dimensions: 22.6 x 27.8 cm

Description: Mountain landscape with large lake dominating the centre. A small white building and storage tank [possibly a refueling station] can be seen on the far side of the lake. Train tracks run the width of foreground and seated figure [known to be Fredrick M. Bell-Smith] at easel in bottom right corner. Title typed in bottom left corner. Manufacturer’s mark “WM. NOTMAN & SON, MONTREAL” typed in bottom right.