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Mount Assiniboine

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1971

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.01

Description: General colour: white and grey with yellow and tints of purple and green. At the right side stands a yellow tree with snow down it's right side. At the bottom left side is a lake, frozen clear, the trees and mountains beyond are reflected in it. Two snowy peaks give way to grey sky.

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Mount Assiniboine

Date: 1971

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 35.2 x 54.3 cm

Description: General colour: white and grey with yellow and tints of purple and green. At the right side stands a yellow tree with snow down it's right side. At the bottom left side is a lake, frozen clear, the trees and mountains beyond are reflected in it. Two snowy peaks give way to grey sky.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Mount Assiniboine

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

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.01

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Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1970

Medium: serigraph on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.01

Description: General colour: blues, greens, purple. The lower half is a white and turquoise green, winter lake with two trees in the lower right corner. The upper half is mountains, three peaks, and a pass. The sky is grey green.

Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

Date: prior to 1970

Medium: serigraph on paper

Dimensions: 13.9 x 29.1 cm

Description: General colour: blues, greens, purple. The lower half is a white and turquoise green, winter lake with two trees in the lower right corner. The upper half is mountains, three peaks, and a pass. The sky is grey green.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.01

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Cascade

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1988

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.03

Description: The mountain, a realistic rendering of Cascade Mountain in Banff National Park, is light blue and grey, covers most of the picture, cloudy sky top edge, foreground left is a road, to the right of road is a clump of yellow trees among some evergreens and grasses

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Cascade

Date: 1988

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 42.2 x 58.1 cm

Description: The mountain, a realistic rendering of Cascade Mountain in Banff National Park, is light blue and grey, covers most of the picture, cloudy sky top edge, foreground left is a road, to the right of road is a clump of yellow trees among some evergreens and grasses

Subject: landscape; mountain; Cascade Mountain

Credit: Gift of Janet Holly Middleton, Banff, 1991

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.03

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Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1977

Medium: serigraph on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.02

Description: The lake covers the foreground, 2 evergreen trees in br. The glacier is centre top with mountains both sides

Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

Date: prior to 1977

Medium: serigraph on paper

Dimensions: 13.9 x 29.1 cm

Description: The lake covers the foreground, 2 evergreen trees in br. The glacier is centre top with mountains both sides

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Bow Lake; Crowfoot Glacier

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

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.02

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Mount Rundle

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.04

Description: Dominant colours are purple, green, blue, brown, grey, yellow, and white. The painting is dominated by Mount Rundle and a cloud-filled blue sky. The foreground is grey rocks, a dead tree with the brown tree trunk and branches reaching right, above that coniferous trees viewer’s right; the middle fo…

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Mount Rundle

Date: 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 50.5 x 70.5 cm

Description: Dominant colours are purple, green, blue, brown, grey, yellow, and white. The painting is dominated by Mount Rundle and a cloud-filled blue sky. The foreground is grey rocks, a dead tree with the brown tree trunk and branches reaching right, above that coniferous trees viewer’s right; the middle foreground is made up of grey pebbles and small rocks with coniferous trees behind, the sun is shining on the mid- foreground and the viewer’s right highlighting the ground and trees. To the viewer’s right there is a pile of grey, brown, and beige rocks with two coniferous trees above and some yellow and brown bushes to the right of that; to the very far right the Bow River is visible and also above the bushes it is snaking its way through the valley toward Canmore. A purple-hued with some blue Tunnel (Buffalo) Mountain is in front of Mount Rundle. Mount Rundle is purple, grey, blue, pink and white with green patches to the right. The ranges on the viewer’s left are purple, grey and white and to the right of Mount Rundle they are blue, grey and white. The sky above which comprises one-third of the painting has more clouds than blue sky. The clouds are white, grey, brown growing into purple, grey and yellowish hues to the viewer’s right.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Rundle Mountain; Janet Holly Middleton

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.04

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Kalamalka Lake

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.05

Description: Dominant colours are blue, green, yellow, brown, mauve, purple and grey. The painting is dominated by the lake shore foreground: on viewer’s right the tip of a grey, gnarled dead tree with branches; the tree appears to have gouache painted on to give it texture; a yellow and orange-coloured rock mi…

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Kalamalka Lake

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 38.0 x 55.0 cm

Description: Dominant colours are blue, green, yellow, brown, mauve, purple and grey. The painting is dominated by the lake shore foreground: on viewer’s right the tip of a grey, gnarled dead tree with branches; the tree appears to have gouache painted on to give it texture; a yellow and orange-coloured rock mid-centre to the right; on viewer’s left wildflowers, the dead tree trunk and the bush above. Grey and brown pebbles and sand and the top of the tree in the water make up the foreground on the extreme right. The dead tree appears to be resting on the yellow and orange-coloured rock. There are yellow flowers with brown centres (Black Eyed Susans) and green leaves below the tree trunk, viewer’s left, and a bush with big brown and green leaves above that. The blue-green calm lake lies beyond the tree trunk and on the opposite shore are blue, grey and purple hills and a snow-peaked mountain; to the viewer’s extreme right is a green and purple hill. The sky above is barely discernable and is a mixture of blue and mauve.

Subject: landscape; lake; Kalamalka Lake; Janet Holly Middleton

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.05

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Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1964

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.06

Description: The general colours are green, blue, grey, brown, mauve, purple and white. The painting is divided in half for dominance. The bottom-half is the icy blue/green and white of the frozen lake; on the viewer’s far right there are two small evergreens in the snow. The top-half comprises the mountains an…

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier

Date: 1964

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 37.2 x 56.0 cm

Description: The general colours are green, blue, grey, brown, mauve, purple and white. The painting is divided in half for dominance. The bottom-half is the icy blue/green and white of the frozen lake; on the viewer’s far right there are two small evergreens in the snow. The top-half comprises the mountains and glacier; viewer’s right the scree slope and upward sweep of a mountain, moving to the left is the next mountain with its white and blue glacier top and blue sweep down the middle of the mountain. Lower mid-centre is the glacier snow field and to the left is a brown and white mountain. The gloomy sky is grey and white swirling clouds with hints of yellow through the grey and blue sky beyond.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Bow Glacier; Bow Lake; Janet Holly Middleton

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.06

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Eisenhower Castle Mountain

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.33

Description: General colours are grey, blue, green, mauve, white and tan. A silkscreen of a view of the Bow River in front of Castle Mountain (Mt. Eisenhower). The foreground shore is two shades of tan, the water from the Bow is turquoise blue; there is a small island of snow with coniferous trees on it. To the…

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Eisenhower Castle Mountain

Date: n.d.

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 13.6 x 17.3 cm

Description: General colours are grey, blue, green, mauve, white and tan. A silkscreen of a view of the Bow River in front of Castle Mountain (Mt. Eisenhower). The foreground shore is two shades of tan, the water from the Bow is turquoise blue; there is a small island of snow with coniferous trees on it. To the viewer’s left are dark coniferous trees and also to the right. The top-half of the silkscreen print mid-centre to the viewer’s left is Castle Mountain, mauve, green, tan and grey and hills of turquoise blue, mauve and grey to the viewer’s right.

Subject: landscape; mountains; Banff National Park; Castle Mountain; Janet Holly Middleton

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.33

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Mt. Eisenhower Castle near Banff

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.34

Description: General colours are tan, grey, green, orange, black, blue and white. The foreground is the grey road to Lake Louise centre to right, on viewer’s left the ditch and bank in shades of white, black, tan, grey and rust, and dark green, with hints of orange, coniferous trees above. To the viewer’s right…

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Mt. Eisenhower Castle near Banff

Date: n.d.

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 7.80 x 21.0 cm

Description: General colours are tan, grey, green, orange, black, blue and white. The foreground is the grey road to Lake Louise centre to right, on viewer’s left the ditch and bank in shades of white, black, tan, grey and rust, and dark green, with hints of orange, coniferous trees above. To the viewer’s right is the ditch in tans, white and rust with coniferous trees behind and the grey/green valley behind. Grey and blue Castle Mountain is on the viewer’s left and mid-centre to far right is a range of white mountains with hints of grey. The top one-quarter of the print is grey/blue sky.

Subject: landscape; mountains; Mount Eisenhower Castle; Janet Holly Middleton

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.34

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Bow Lake Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.35

Description: A silkscreened folded card with a view of Bow Lake, mostly obscured by the vegetation in front of the lake, and the Crowfoot Glacier behind. The general colours are blue, grey, green, rust/orange and white. The image is dominated by the rust and green-coloured vegetation in front of the lake and th…

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake Crowfoot Glacier

Date: n.d.

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 11.1 x 14.1 cm

Description: A silkscreened folded card with a view of Bow Lake, mostly obscured by the vegetation in front of the lake, and the Crowfoot Glacier behind. The general colours are blue, grey, green, rust/orange and white. The image is dominated by the rust and green-coloured vegetation in front of the lake and the mountains and glacier behind. Beyond the vegetation is the blue/green and grey lake. The top two-thirds comprises the mountains and glacier; viewer’s right the green/grey scree slope and upward sweep of a mountain, moving to the left is the next mountain with its white and blue/grey glacier top and its grey/blue shadowed side on the left. Lower mid-centre is the glacier snow field and to the left is a grey/blue hill. The sky above is flat and grey.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Bow Glacier; Bow Lake; Janet Holly Middleton

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.35

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Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: print on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.36

Description: A mountain landscape silkscreen print. In the background there is a grey-brown sky and a blue mountain with white snow accents dominating the right side of the image and to the left of the mountain is another smaller peak. Between the two mountains is a glacier. In front of the glacier and mountain…

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

Date: n.d.

Medium: print on paper

Dimensions: 20.5 x 34.5 cm

Description: A mountain landscape silkscreen print. In the background there is a grey-brown sky and a blue mountain with white snow accents dominating the right side of the image and to the left of the mountain is another smaller peak. Between the two mountains is a glacier. In front of the glacier and mountains is a light blue lake and in the foreground in the right corner are two dark green coniferous trees. The print is primarily blues, greens and white with about 10 colours used in total. Under the image in the bottom left corner written in pencil is, “Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier” and in the bottom rhc is the artist signature.

Subject: landscape; mountains; glacier; Janet Holly Middleton

Credit: Gift of Joanne Thomas , Vancouver, 2012

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.36

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Mt. Eisenhower Castle near Banff

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: print on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.37

Description: A silkscreen print of a mountain landscape. In the background is a mountain range with a clear blue-grey sky behind. In front of the mountain, a hill lined with black trees comes diagonally down and across from the left and goes across the image. The image is primarily green, yellow, black, white a…

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Mt. Eisenhower Castle near Banff

Date: n.d.

Medium: print on paper

Dimensions: 15.0 x 28.0 cm

Description: A silkscreen print of a mountain landscape. In the background is a mountain range with a clear blue-grey sky behind. In front of the mountain, a hill lined with black trees comes diagonally down and across from the left and goes across the image. The image is primarily green, yellow, black, white and grey. There are about 7 colours used. Under the image in the bottom left hand corner, written in pencil is, “Mt Eisenhower Castle near Banff”. Right of centre written in pencil is, “Original silkscreen” and the artist signature in the bottom rhc.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Janet (Holly) Middleton

Credit: Gift of Joanne Thomas , Vancouver, 2012

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.37

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Lake O’Hara

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1978

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.07

Description: A watercolour depicting a mountain landscape, with a lake below (Lake O’Hara), painted in a very loose and free style. The bottom third is a blue lake with grey and white reflections from the banks, mountains, talus slopes, and trees above. The mid two-thirds depicts sparse trees, trail, and slopes…

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Lake O’Hara

Date: 1978

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 55.0 x 71.0 cm

Description: A watercolour depicting a mountain landscape, with a lake below (Lake O’Hara), painted in a very loose and free style. The bottom third is a blue lake with grey and white reflections from the banks, mountains, talus slopes, and trees above. The mid two-thirds depicts sparse trees, trail, and slopes to the left, waterfalls (Seven Veils), snow-covered mountain with glacier in the background (Mt. Oesa), mid-to-far right a mountain in varying shades of grey rising to almost the top of the painting (Opabin Mountain). Top portion blue sky with clouds. The extreme bottom and right hand side is left mostly unpainted.Signed, in script, blue watercolour paint bottom right hand corner “Middleton 78”. The lake bleeds into the signature.