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Prairie Anemone

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: 1971

Medium: ink on cloth

Catalogue Number: BwA.04.03

Description: General colour: purple, green, brown, yellow. Three purple flowers with yellow centers, and one bud, lean to the left filling the foreground. Behind is green and brown grass on purple.

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Prairie Anemone

Date: 1971

Medium: ink on cloth

Dimensions: 14.9 x 17 cm

Description: General colour: purple, green, brown, yellow. Three purple flowers with yellow centers, and one bud, lean to the left filling the foreground. Behind is green and brown grass on purple.

Subject: botanical; anemone

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: BwA.04.03

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Wind Whipped

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: serigraph on paper

Catalogue Number: BwA.04.04

Description: General colour: brown, yellow, green. A gnarled tree tilts right, one branch goes left. It grows on a mound of earth which cones one quarter the way up from the bottom. Coming down slightly diagonally from the right are light strokes of colour.

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Wind Whipped

Date: n.d.

Medium: serigraph on paper

Dimensions: 35.4 x 25.8 cm

Description: General colour: brown, yellow, green. A gnarled tree tilts right, one branch goes left. It grows on a mound of earth which cones one quarter the way up from the bottom. Coming down slightly diagonally from the right are light strokes of colour.

Subject: botanical; tree

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: BwA.04.04

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Skunk Cabbage

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.02

Description: Bottom two thirds is a purple blue pool of water out of which grows six large yellow and green plants. On the edge of the pool brown ferns grow. The upper third is green weeds and fern.

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Skunk Cabbage

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 39.2 x 57.4 cm

Description: Bottom two thirds is a purple blue pool of water out of which grows six large yellow and green plants. On the edge of the pool brown ferns grow. The upper third is green weeds and fern.

Subject: botanical; skunk cabbage; weeds; fern

Credit: Purchased from Jean Gill, Calgary, 1974

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.02

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Snow Lily

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.03

Description: General colour: green and brown with yellow flowers. To the left, three yellow lilies grow from two plants. To the right six yellow lilies grow from one plant, three from another. Small three leaf ground plants grow at the bottom of the picture. Bare twigs fill the background.

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Snow Lily

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.2 x 34.9 cm

Description: General colour: green and brown with yellow flowers. To the left, three yellow lilies grow from two plants. To the right six yellow lilies grow from one plant, three from another. Small three leaf ground plants grow at the bottom of the picture. Bare twigs fill the background.

Subject: botanical; snow lilies; twigs

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.03

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Anemone

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.01

Description: A large grey and brown rock takes up half of the picture. In the upper right five white flowers peek over the rock. In the upper left four white and five yellow flowers grow. In the center amonst grass are nine white and eight yellow flowers. To the right and left are two white flowers respectively.

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Anemone

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 39.2 x 57.5 cm

Description: A large grey and brown rock takes up half of the picture. In the upper right five white flowers peek over the rock. In the upper left four white and five yellow flowers grow. In the center amonst grass are nine white and eight yellow flowers. To the right and left are two white flowers respectively.

Subject: botanical; anemone

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.06

Description: A watercolour depicting flora dominated by a large cow parsup, in white and grey, with green stems and leaves. Purple and mauve fireweed to the far left and far right, apricot and pink Indian paintbrush, purple fleabane below that, a bit of yellow goldenrod mid-left.Signed in print brhc “Annora Bro…

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 37.0 x 54.0 cm

Description: A watercolour depicting flora dominated by a large cow parsup, in white and grey, with green stems and leaves. Purple and mauve fireweed to the far left and far right, apricot and pink Indian paintbrush, purple fleabane below that, a bit of yellow goldenrod mid-left.Signed in print brhc “Annora Brown”

Subject: botanical; plants; flora; Annora Brown

Credit: Purchased from Willock & Sax, 2013

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.06

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Purple Crocus

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: 1987

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.04

Description: Two crocus flowers with stems and leaves, and some grass and stems on a black background. The crocus in the foreground is drooping to the viewer’s left; the open/inside part of the petals are lilac, the underside/outside are purple and the centres yellow and gold. The crocus on top is turned away f…

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Purple Crocus

Date: 1987

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 31.0 x 23.5 cm

Description: Two crocus flowers with stems and leaves, and some grass and stems on a black background. The crocus in the foreground is drooping to the viewer’s left; the open/inside part of the petals are lilac, the underside/outside are purple and the centres yellow and gold. The crocus on top is turned away from the viewer showing mostly the outside of the petals and some yellow inside. The crocus stems and feathery leaves are green and brown. The other grasses and stems are rust, yellow and brown.

Subject: botanical; flower; crocus

Credit: Purchased from mid, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.04

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Wood Lily

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: 1987

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.05

Description: General colours orange, green, yellow, brown, grey and white on a black background. A single wood lily with stem and leaves and other stems/grass. The single flower head is centred but leaning toward the viewer’s left. The petals are light and dark orange, dots of brown as they turn yellow towards …

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Wood Lily

Date: 1987

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: General colours orange, green, yellow, brown, grey and white on a black background. A single wood lily with stem and leaves and other stems/grass. The single flower head is centred but leaning toward the viewer’s left. The petals are light and dark orange, dots of brown as they turn yellow towards the base. The petals narrow on the ends and at the base giving a see-through aspect; the black background is visible through the base of the flower head. The stamens are brown and grey and the stems is two shades of green. The narrow, long leaves are light green with darker green running through. There are other stems or grasses of white and green.

Subject: botanical; flower; wood lily

Credit: Purchased from mid, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.05

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Pink blossoms

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Artist: Barb Spohr

Date: 1984

Medium: ektacolour on Kodak paper

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.02

Description: Ektacolour on Kodak paper. The overall picture is green grass, a barren tree trunk and some branches are centered in the picture, leaning against the tree with back towards front of picture is a brown haired person wearing blue clothes. From centre left to the borders on top, bottom and right are p…

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Artist: Barb Spohr

Title: Pink blossoms

Date: 1984

Medium: ektacolour on Kodak paper

Dimensions: 32.0 x 48.5 cm

Description: Ektacolour on Kodak paper. The overall picture is green grass, a barren tree trunk and some branches are centered in the picture, leaning against the tree with back towards front of picture is a brown haired person wearing blue clothes. From centre left to the borders on top, bottom and right are pink blossoms.

Subject: botanical

Credit: Gift of Barbara Spohr, Vancouver, 1985

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.02

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Untitled

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: 1981

Medium: type c print on photographic paper

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.08

Description: In the foreground there is a table with a vase sitting on it. There is a natural light source shining on the vase from the left and casting a shadow on the yellow and white checkered wall in the background. In the vase there are flowers. This light from the left makes a very detailed shadow of the …

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1981

Medium: type c print on photographic paper

Dimensions: 60.7 x 50.6 cm

Description: In the foreground there is a table with a vase sitting on it. There is a natural light source shining on the vase from the left and casting a shadow on the yellow and white checkered wall in the background. In the vase there are flowers. This light from the left makes a very detailed shadow of the flowers and the vase on the wall in the back. The vase has a decorative floral pattern on the surface.

Subject: still life; botanical

Credit: Gift of Barb Spohr, Calgary, 1996

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.08

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Hydrangia

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: 1981

Medium: type c print on photographic paper

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.12

Description: Centered in the middle of the photograph is a bush covered in Hydrangia. The flowers are a white and pink colour. Just behind the bush is a low corner angle view of the white house with red trim that sits adjacent. The Hydrangia bush takes up most of the photograph, but there is some blue sky in th…

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Hydrangia

Date: 1981

Medium: type c print on photographic paper

Dimensions: 50.7 x 40.4 cm

Description: Centered in the middle of the photograph is a bush covered in Hydrangia. The flowers are a white and pink colour. Just behind the bush is a low corner angle view of the white house with red trim that sits adjacent. The Hydrangia bush takes up most of the photograph, but there is some blue sky in the background off to the left and some shadows cast on to the house from the flowers.

Subject: botanical; hydrangia

Credit: Gift of Barb Spohr, Calgary, 1996

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.12

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Untitled

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: 1984

Medium: type c print on photographic paper

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.15

Description: In the center of this rectangular photograph there is a cabbage plant. The outside border of the photograph is pink in color with text above and below the image. The Cabbage plant is large taking up most of the photograph with the exception of a few more cabbage plants around the edges and corners.…

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1984

Medium: type c print on photographic paper

Dimensions: 40.5 x 50.6 cm

Description: In the center of this rectangular photograph there is a cabbage plant. The outside border of the photograph is pink in color with text above and below the image. The Cabbage plant is large taking up most of the photograph with the exception of a few more cabbage plants around the edges and corners. The overall colour of this piece is a light pink, light green and medium green.

Subject: botanical; red cabbage

Credit: Gift of Barb Spohr, Calgary, 1996

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.15

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Untitled

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: 1985

Medium: type c print on photographic paper

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.16

Description: The photo has a pinkish brown border with a rectangular image in the center. Within the center image you can see a garden sprinkler attachment surrounded by garden vegetables and flowers. The flowers in bloom are orange, yellow and purple in colour. The sprinkler is green, yellow, and black. Above …

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1985

Medium: type c print on photographic paper

Dimensions: 50.5 x 60.8 cm

Description: The photo has a pinkish brown border with a rectangular image in the center. Within the center image you can see a garden sprinkler attachment surrounded by garden vegetables and flowers. The flowers in bloom are orange, yellow and purple in colour. The sprinkler is green, yellow, and black. Above and below the photographic image is text white in color.

Subject: botanical; garden vegetable; flowers

Credit: Gift of Barb Spohr, Calgary, 1996

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.16

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Untitled

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1987

Medium: type c print on photographic paper

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.17

Description: The border of the photograph is a blue colour with writing below and above the retangular photographic image in the center. The image in the center is a scene looking threw a window. Around the window on the inside is a number of different plants. Outside you can see a white house with trees and hi…

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1987

Medium: type c print on photographic paper

Dimensions: 50.5 x 60.7 cm

Description: The border of the photograph is a blue colour with writing below and above the retangular photographic image in the center. The image in the center is a scene looking threw a window. Around the window on the inside is a number of different plants. Outside you can see a white house with trees and hills in the background. The plants on the inside are almost totally in silhouette.

Subject: botanical; plants; flowers; architecture; house; window

Credit: Gift of Barb Spohr, Calgary, 1996

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.17

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Untitled

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1987

Medium: type c print on photographic paper

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.18

Description: Sitting in the center of a table is a drinking glass with two flowers in it. Off to the left there is a sponge rabbit shape and behind the glass is a window covered with a light brown shade. Most of the space around the flowers is dark.

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1987

Medium: type c print on photographic paper

Dimensions: 60.8 x 50.7 cm

Description: Sitting in the center of a table is a drinking glass with two flowers in it. Off to the left there is a sponge rabbit shape and behind the glass is a window covered with a light brown shade. Most of the space around the flowers is dark.