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Summit of the Rockies and Mt. Field

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Artist
James Alfred Aitken (1846 – 1897, Scottish)
Date
c. 1886
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
AiJ.05.01
Description
The scene is comprised mainly of a mountain and a lake. The lake takes up approx. 1/2 of the work, and is cropped in the brc by the frame. The blc is the shoreline of the lake. On the right and left side of the piece, just above the lake, the beginning of two treed mountain sides head out of the…
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Artist
James Alfred Aitken (1846 – 1897, Scottish)
Title
Summit of the Rockies and Mt. Field
Date
c. 1886
Medium
watercolour on paper
Description
The scene is comprised mainly of a mountain and a lake. The lake takes up approx. 1/2 of the work, and is cropped in the brc by the frame. The blc is the shoreline of the lake. On the right and left side of the piece, just above the lake, the beginning of two treed mountain sides head out of the picture frame. These two slopes frame a clear mountain in the background which is centered in the middle of the piece. They sky is quite cloudy.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Mt. Field
Credit
Gift of Donald Grace, Saanichton, 1997
Catalogue Number
AiJ.05.01
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Trestles at the Loop

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Artist
Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)
Date
1890
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
BeS.05.04
Description
Kicking Horse Pass. Train trestle bridges wind around bases of mountains in valley.Ross Peak in background.
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Artist
Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)
Title
Trestles at the Loop
Date
1890
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
31.0 x 47.7 cm
Description
Kicking Horse Pass. Train trestle bridges wind around bases of mountains in valley.Ross Peak in background.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Kicking Horse Pass, transportation
train
CPR
Credit
Purchased from Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 2004
Catalogue Number
BeS.05.04
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Mt. Rundle, Vermilion Lakes, Banff, N.W.T.

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Artist
Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)
Date
1887
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
BeS.05.06
Description
Mt. Rundle with Vermilion Lakes in foreground. A figure in a canoe is on the shore of the lake in the lower centre of image.
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Artist
Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)
Title
Mt. Rundle, Vermilion Lakes, Banff, N.W.T.
Date
1887
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
33.5 x 48.6 cm
Description
Mt. Rundle with Vermilion Lakes in foreground. A figure in a canoe is on the shore of the lake in the lower centre of image.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Mount Rundle
Vermilion Lakes
activity
canoeing
Credit
Gift of Ted and Judy Mills, Mill Bay, 2005
Catalogue Number
BeS.05.06
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Untitled [Rocks and Trees]

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Artist
Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)
Date
c. 1980
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
GyH.05.06
Description
Rocks in shades of grey and yellow form a pile in the foreground. On top of the rock pile are a stand of trees which may be larches. The trees are painted quite softly and loosely. Mountain peaks in dark blue are visible behind the trees. The sky is a cloudy grey colour.
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Artist
Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)
Title
Untitled [Rocks and Trees]
Date
c. 1980
Medium
watercolour on paper
Description
Rocks in shades of grey and yellow form a pile in the foreground. On top of the rock pile are a stand of trees which may be larches. The trees are painted quite softly and loosely. Mountain peaks in dark blue are visible behind the trees. The sky is a cloudy grey colour.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
trees
larches
rocks
Credit
Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997
Catalogue Number
GyH.05.06
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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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Artist
Thomas Mower Martin, R. C. A. (1838 – 1934, Canadian)
Date
1887 – 1897
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
MrT.05.02
Description
A snow covered mountain peak dominates centre of picture, in the foreground is a blue green lake, evergreen trees and rocks surround it, a pale, partly cloudy sky
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Artist
Thomas Mower Martin, R. C. A. (1838 – 1934, Canadian)
Title
Mountain with Lake
Date
1887 – 1897
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
33.7 x 50.2 cm
Description
A snow covered mountain peak dominates centre of picture, in the foreground is a blue green lake, evergreen trees and rocks surround it, a pale, partly cloudy sky
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
mountain
lake
Credit
Purchased from Sotheby Parke Bernet (Canada) Ltd, Toronto, 1993
Catalogue Number
MrT.05.02
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Untitled (Mount Temple)

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Artist
Thomas Mower Martin, R. C. A. (1838 – 1934, Canadian)
Date
c. 1903
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
MrT.05.03
Description
A horizontal picture.The painting features a large mountain which is located in the centre and right side of picture in the background. This mountain takes up 2/3 of the picture. The mountain is lightly covered with snow, and light brown rock shows underneath. The sky is filled with grey clouds…
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Artist
Thomas Mower Martin, R. C. A. (1838 – 1934, Canadian)
Title
Untitled (Mount Temple)
Date
c. 1903
Medium
watercolour on paper
Description
A horizontal picture.The painting features a large mountain which is located in the centre and right side of picture in the background. This mountain takes up 2/3 of the picture. The mountain is lightly covered with snow, and light brown rock shows underneath. The sky is filled with grey clouds and near the mountain portions of blue sky show through these clouds. On the left side of the work, still in the background, a smaller mountain stretches to the right and turns into a valley with a small pool of water at its base near the centre of the painting. The forground contains the rocks and sparse trees of a mountain, and looks into the base of the valley.
Subject
landscape
mountains
Canadian Rockies
Credit
Gift of Molly Vaux, New York, USA, 1999
Catalogue Number
MrT.05.03
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Mount Temple, Canadian Rockies

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Artist
James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)
Date
1972
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
SiJ.05.09
Description
Colour: blue, green, brown. Lower half is water on the left and a brown shore in the lower right corner. Yellow grass grows at the left side of the far shore. Two trees go up the left side. Three go up on the right. The upper half is a mountain at center. Blue sky above.
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Artist
James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)
Title
Mount Temple, Canadian Rockies
Date
1972
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
20.4 x 23.8 cm
Description
Colour: blue, green, brown. Lower half is water on the left and a brown shore in the lower right corner. Yellow grass grows at the left side of the far shore. Two trees go up the left side. Three go up on the right. The upper half is a mountain at center. Blue sky above.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
mountain
water
Credit
Gift of Gus (Mrs.) Baracos, Banff, 1978
Catalogue Number
SiJ.05.09
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Artist
James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)
Date
1970
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
SiJ.05.26
Description
Two thirds of the painting is dominated by a herd of bison grazing in the foothills. There is one large bull on the left. The mountains are in the background under a cloudy sky.
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Artist
James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1970
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
23.0 x 30.7 cm
Description
Two thirds of the painting is dominated by a herd of bison grazing in the foothills. There is one large bull on the left. The mountains are in the background under a cloudy sky.
Subject
animal
buffalo
landscape
Canadian Rockies
mountain
foothills
Credit
Purchased from James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 1975
Catalogue Number
SiJ.05.26
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Artist
James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)
Date
1971
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
SiJ.05.46
Description
Vivid colours depicting a lake in the foreground, green growth to the front and right of water, dark trees and mountain slope. Multi coloured bank, growth trees to the left. Varied coloured mountains in the background, yellow and blue sky.
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Artist
James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)
Title
Consolation Lake
Date
1971
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
21.0 x 27.1 cm
Description
Vivid colours depicting a lake in the foreground, green growth to the front and right of water, dark trees and mountain slope. Multi coloured bank, growth trees to the left. Varied coloured mountains in the background, yellow and blue sky.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
lake
mountain
Credit
Gift of Audrey Campbell, Banff, 1991
Catalogue Number
SiJ.05.46
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