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Date
1920 – 1935
Material
fibre, silk
Catalogue Number
103.08.0040 a,b
Description
Two matching small gold silk drawstring purses whose drawstrings are tied together. Each purse has delicate purple and blue flowers embroidered with silk and metallic thread, and two long red silk tassels hanging from the top of either side. Both purses are padded.
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Title
Purse
Date
1920 – 1935
Material
fibre, silk
Dimensions
2.0 x 7.0 x 7.0 cm
Description
Two matching small gold silk drawstring purses whose drawstrings are tied together. Each purse has delicate purple and blue flowers embroidered with silk and metallic thread, and two long red silk tassels hanging from the top of either side. Both purses are padded.
Subject
households
crafts
needlework
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.08.0040 a,b
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Date
1920 – 1950
Material
fibre, cotton
Catalogue Number
103.08.0063
Description
A pouch-shaped bag of white cotton with a drawstring at the neck. The bag is decorated with narrow bands of red, green and yellow embroidery following the shape of the bag, and with a pink tassel at the bottom. The bag’s drawstring is made of twisted pink and black threads, and has a green tasse…
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Title
Purse
Date
1920 – 1950
Material
fibre, cotton
Dimensions
16.0 x 32.0 cm
Description
A pouch-shaped bag of white cotton with a drawstring at the neck. The bag is decorated with narrow bands of red, green and yellow embroidery following the shape of the bag, and with a pink tassel at the bottom. The bag’s drawstring is made of twisted pink and black threads, and has a green tassel at each end.
Subject
households
crafts
needlework
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.08.0063
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Date
1920 – 1940
Material
fibre, silk; wood
Catalogue Number
103.08.0079
Description
A printed silk chiffon bag with a pattern of flowers and horizontal stripes. The bag has a wooden frame at the opening, and fastens with a wooden bead button. The bag has two handles made of the same fabric as the bag.
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Title
Purse
Date
1920 – 1940
Material
fibre, silk; wood
Dimensions
40.0 x 32.0 cm
Description
A printed silk chiffon bag with a pattern of flowers and horizontal stripes. The bag has a wooden frame at the opening, and fastens with a wooden bead button. The bag has two handles made of the same fabric as the bag.
Subject
households
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.08.0079
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Date
1920 – 1940
Material
fibre, silk
Catalogue Number
103.08.0143
Description
A small, flat, red silk purse with curved sides and single pink and white peony applique on the front. The purse has a green and a red silk tassel that hang from each side, and a silk loop at the top.
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Title
Purse
Date
1920 – 1940
Material
fibre, silk
Dimensions
12.0 x 8.3 cm
Description
A small, flat, red silk purse with curved sides and single pink and white peony applique on the front. The purse has a green and a red silk tassel that hang from each side, and a silk loop at the top.
Subject
households
crafts
needlework
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.08.0143
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Date
1890 – 1910
Material
metal; skin; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.08.0161
Description
A brown suede purse which hangs by two straps from a fabric belt. There is a small money holder with a metal frame that fits inside a pocket. The money holder fastens with two snaps. The lining of the purse is stamped with a patent note.
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Title
Purse
Date
1890 – 1910
Material
metal; skin; fibre
Dimensions
24.0 x 1.0 x 14.5 cm
Description
A brown suede purse which hangs by two straps from a fabric belt. There is a small money holder with a metal frame that fits inside a pocket. The money holder fastens with two snaps. The lining of the purse is stamped with a patent note.
Subject
tourism
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.08.0161
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Date
1920 – 1940
Material
skin, snake
Catalogue Number
103.08.0207 a,b
Description
A black and white snakeskin change purse with two pieces. The smaller section (a) slides into the larger section (b) to close the purse.
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Title
Purse
Date
1920 – 1940
Material
skin, snake
Dimensions
2.5 x 9.2 x 10.5 cm
Description
A black and white snakeskin change purse with two pieces. The smaller section (a) slides into the larger section (b) to close the purse.
Subject
travel
households
animals, snake
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.08.0207 a,b
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Date
1920 – 1930
Material
fibre
Catalogue Number
103.08.0363 a,b
Description
A pair of flat, silk bags both lined with the same pink and purple striped silk fabric. (a) black rounded bottom , printed with rows of stylized flowers of red, blue, and pink. A row of black thread loops passing around bag just below mouth holds double drawstring cord of pink and green twisted co…
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Title
Purse
Date
1920 – 1930
Material
fibre
Dimensions
28.0 x 23.9 cm
Description
A pair of flat, silk bags both lined with the same pink and purple striped silk fabric. (a) black rounded bottom , printed with rows of stylized flowers of red, blue, and pink. A row of black thread loops passing around bag just below mouth holds double drawstring cord of pink and green twisted cotton threads knotted at each end with small tassels. (b) blue square, printed with small scattered bouquets of stylized pink and yellow flowers, and small comb like symbol. Casing sewn below mouth holds double drawstring cord of twisted black cotton threads.
Subject
households
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.08.0363 a,b
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Artist
Charles Morrise Brousson ( – 1941)
Date
1920
Medium
oil on wood
Catalogue Number
BrC.02.01
Description
A primitive painting on a piece of wood. The foreground is beige and brown bank with a white and brown tepee on the left. Beyond this the creek, blue and white extends to mid centre. The top half of the painting is a slope covered with trees to left and a mountain, blue, white and green, to the ri…
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Artist
Charles Morrise Brousson ( – 1941)
Title
Cultus Creek
Date
1920
Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
10.5 x 15.1 cm
Description
A primitive painting on a piece of wood. The foreground is beige and brown bank with a white and brown tepee on the left. Beyond this the creek, blue and white extends to mid centre. The top half of the painting is a slope covered with trees to left and a mountain, blue, white and green, to the right. A cloudy grey sky.
Subject
Canadian Rockies
landscape
mountain
creek
building
tepee
Credit
Gift of Earle Birney, Toronto, 1969
Catalogue Number
BrC.02.01
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Artist
Leonard Moore Davis (1864 – 1938, American)
Date
1927
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
DaL.05.01
Description
A mountain peak dominates the centre, right side in shadow, tinges of pink top left of mountain. Mountain range left background. Left foreground and right foreground indicate green hillsides. Sky is light blue with a few patches of white top right.
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Artist
Leonard Moore Davis (1864 – 1938, American)
Title
Untitled
Date
1927
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
8.2 x 11.3 cm
Description
A mountain peak dominates the centre, right side in shadow, tinges of pink top left of mountain. Mountain range left background. Left foreground and right foreground indicate green hillsides. Sky is light blue with a few patches of white top right.
Subject
landscape
mountains
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
DaL.05.01
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Portrait of Mrs. Pearl Moore

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Artist
Elizabeth Fulda (1879 – 1968, American)
Date
c. 1931
Medium
oil on board
Catalogue Number
FuE.02.02
Description
An almost full face portrait of a woman, she has short hair.
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Artist
Elizabeth Fulda (1879 – 1968, American)
Title
Portrait of Mrs. Pearl Moore
Date
c. 1931
Medium
oil on board
Dimensions
44.5 x 36.5 cm
Description
An almost full face portrait of a woman, she has short hair.
Subject
portrait
female
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
FuE.02.02
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Artist
Ruth Fulda
Date
c. 1930
Medium
watercolour; ink on paper
Catalogue Number
FuR.05.01
Description
A figure of a woman dominates centre of picture. She faces towards the back climbing a hill.
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Artist
Ruth Fulda
Title
Woman Climbing Path
Date
c. 1930
Medium
watercolour; ink on paper
Dimensions
9.5 x 6.5 cm
Description
A figure of a woman dominates centre of picture. She faces towards the back climbing a hill.
Subject
activity
summer
figure
female
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
FuR.05.01
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
1929
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.09
Description
General colour: blue, brown. Rocks in lower left corner sit on a beach which goes along the bottom edge to the right. The water is calm and blue. The far shore slopes up to tall rocky cliffs on the right side. On the left these same cliffs are seen in the distance. The sky is clouded with a bit of …
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Molar Pass
Date
1929
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
34.2 x 41.8 cm
Description
General colour: blue, brown. Rocks in lower left corner sit on a beach which goes along the bottom edge to the right. The water is calm and blue. The far shore slopes up to tall rocky cliffs on the right side. On the left these same cliffs are seen in the distance. The sky is clouded with a bit of blue at the upper left of center edge.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
Catalogue Number
LaC.05.09
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Towards Ringrose from Opabin

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Artist
James Edward Hervey MacDonald, R. C. A. (1873 – 1932, Canadian)
Date
1929
Medium
oil on board
Catalogue Number
MaJ.02.02
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Artist
James Edward Hervey MacDonald, R. C. A. (1873 – 1932, Canadian)
Title
Towards Ringrose from Opabin
Date
1929
Medium
oil on board
Dimensions
20.6 x 26.0 cm
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Credit
Gift of George K.K. (Tommy) Link, Tucson, USA, 1979
Catalogue Number
MaJ.02.02
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Artist
James Edward Hervey MacDonald, R. C. A. (1873 – 1932, Canadian)
Date
1927
Medium
oil on board
Catalogue Number
MaJ.02.03
Description
The shore of Lake Oesa is visible in the foreground at the bottom of the painting. It is quite rocky. A small shrub or plant is sprouting out of the rock on the right side of the shore. The turquoise Lake Oesa stretches across the canvas. The lake meets up with the headwall of the glacier which …
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Artist
James Edward Hervey MacDonald, R. C. A. (1873 – 1932, Canadian)
Title
Lake Oesa
Date
1927
Medium
oil on board
Dimensions
26.0 x 20.6 cm
Description
The shore of Lake Oesa is visible in the foreground at the bottom of the painting. It is quite rocky. A small shrub or plant is sprouting out of the rock on the right side of the shore. The turquoise Lake Oesa stretches across the canvas. The lake meets up with the headwall of the glacier which forms the upper half of the painting. It is painted in shades of dark blue and purple. At the top of the painting, blue and white areas of the glacier are visible.
Subject
landscape
water
Canadian Rockies
Lake Oesa
Credit
Gift of George K.K. (Tommy) Link, Tucson, USA, 1979
Catalogue Number
MaJ.02.03
Notes
Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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West Portal Abbots Pass

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Artist
Tom W. McLean (1881 – 1951, Canadian)
Date
c. 1926
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
MlT.02.01
Description
The whole image has a lot of blue in it for color. In the foreground and to the bl is the lightest blue section of the painting. Above that is a section of landscape medium to light blue in color. The middle ground is the green blue part of the painted landscape. The mountains in the distance are b…
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Artist
Tom W. McLean (1881 – 1951, Canadian)
Title
West Portal Abbots Pass
Date
c. 1926
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
80.3 x 90.2 cm
Description
The whole image has a lot of blue in it for color. In the foreground and to the bl is the lightest blue section of the painting. Above that is a section of landscape medium to light blue in color. The middle ground is the green blue part of the painted landscape. The mountains in the distance are blue and the sky above is blue with white and grey clouds. The paint has been applied very thick therefor there is a heavy texture throughout.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Credit
Gift of Donald Grace, Saanichton, 1996
Catalogue Number
MlT.02.01
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Artist
Frank Shirley Panabaker (1904 – 1992, Canadian)
Date
1925 – 1930
Medium
oil on board
Catalogue Number
PaF.02.01
Description
An oil painting of The Towers near Mount Assiniboine in the autumn with a brook through the snow in an open valley in the foreground surrounded by a forest of evergreen trees.
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Artist
Frank Shirley Panabaker (1904 – 1992, Canadian)
Title
Mount Assiniboine
Date
1925 – 1930
Medium
oil on board
Dimensions
34.0 x 26.5 cm
Description
An oil painting of The Towers near Mount Assiniboine in the autumn with a brook through the snow in an open valley in the foreground surrounded by a forest of evergreen trees.
Subject
landscape
mountain
Canadian Rockies
winter
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
PaF.02.01
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Artist
D. H. Pinder
Date
c. 1930
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
PiD.05.01
Description
An unframed watercolour showing a small boat with two sails on water at sunset. In the background are palm trees and stone columns. A person and a red net are in the boat.
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Artist
D. H. Pinder
Title
Arab Dhow
Date
c. 1930
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
10.8 x 19.0 cm
Description
An unframed watercolour showing a small boat with two sails on water at sunset. In the background are palm trees and stone columns. A person and a red net are in the boat.
Subject
seascape
Atlantic
boat
sailing
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
PiD.05.01
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Artist
D. H. Pinder
Date
c. 1930
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
PiD.05.02
Description
An unframed watercolour showing three people and two camels resting under two palm trees.
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Artist
D. H. Pinder
Title
Desert Scene
Date
c. 1930
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
10.0 x 19.0 cm
Description
An unframed watercolour showing three people and two camels resting under two palm trees.
Subject
landscape
desert
figure
group
animal
camel
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
PiD.05.02
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Artist
Roberto Raimondi
Date
c. 1900
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
RaR.05.01
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Artist
Roberto Raimondi
Title
Cardinal Richelieu
Date
c. 1900
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
38.0 x 53.0 cm
Subject
figure
group
religious
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
RaR.05.01
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Artist
Louise Rungius
Date
c. 1931
Medium
oil on board
Catalogue Number
RuL.01.01
Description
Small painting showing a green lake surrounded by trees with three mountains in the background. The painting is in a wooden frame that has been painted gold and green. There is an inscription in pencil on the back that reads “Louise Julia Rungius Lake O’Hara” as well as a sticker from the manufact…
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Artist
Louise Rungius
Title
Lake O'Hara
Date
c. 1931
Medium
oil on board
Dimensions
14.2 x 21.0 cm
Description
Small painting showing a green lake surrounded by trees with three mountains in the background. The painting is in a wooden frame that has been painted gold and green. There is an inscription in pencil on the back that reads “Louise Julia Rungius Lake O’Hara” as well as a sticker from the manufacturer of the board.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
lake
mountain
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
RuL.01.01
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