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The Rockies in Summer

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Artist: Aleen Aked (1907 – 2003, Canadian)

Date: c. 1939

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: AkA.02.01

Description: Painting of mountains in summertime. At the bottom of the mountains are hills that become rocky at the centre of the image. Impasto is noticeable at the centre of the painting.

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Artist: Aleen Aked (1907 – 2003, Canadian)

Title: The Rockies in Summer

Date: c. 1939

Medium: oil on canvas board

Description: Painting of mountains in summertime. At the bottom of the mountains are hills that become rocky at the centre of the image. Impasto is noticeable at the centre of the painting.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; summer

Credit: Purchased from The Collector’s Gallery, Calgary, 2004

Catalogue Number: AkA.02.01

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Lake Louise

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Artist: Aleen Aked (1907 – 2003, Canadian)

Date: c. 1939

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: AkA.02.02

Description: A classic view of Lake Louise. Dark green trees and mountainsides are on either side of the painting. Victoria Glacier is painted in shades of tan and slate. Bright turquoise Lake Louise is in the bottom foreground.

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Artist: Aleen Aked (1907 – 2003, Canadian)

Title: Lake Louise

Date: c. 1939

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 66.5 x 79.5 cm

Description: A classic view of Lake Louise. Dark green trees and mountainsides are on either side of the painting. Victoria Glacier is painted in shades of tan and slate. Bright turquoise Lake Louise is in the bottom foreground.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Lake Louise

Credit: Purchased from The Collector’s Gallery, Calgary, 2004

Catalogue Number: AkA.02.02

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Cascade Mountain

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Artist: Aleen Aked (1907 – 2003, Canadian)

Date: c. 1939

Catalogue Number: AkA.02.03

Description: Cascade Mountain, trees in foreground.

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Title: Cascade Mountain

Date: c. 1939

Dimensions: 26.5 x 32.5 cm

Description: Cascade Mountain, trees in foreground.

Credit: Gift of Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 2004

Catalogue Number: AkA.02.03

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In the Rockies

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Artist: Aleen Aked (1907 – 2003, Canadian)

Date: c. 1939

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: AkA.02.04

Description: Trees in foreground on either side of image. Open area leads to a river, mountains in background.

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Artist: Aleen Aked (1907 – 2003, Canadian)

Title: In the Rockies

Date: c. 1939

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 30.4 x 40.5 cm

Description: Trees in foreground on either side of image. Open area leads to a river, mountains in background.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Purchased from The Collector’s Gallery, Calgary, 2005

Catalogue Number: AkA.02.04

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Untitled [Mt. Assiniboine]

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Artist: G. H. W Ashley (1908 – , Canadian)

Date: 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: AsH.02.01

Description: Mt. Assiniboine and Lake Magog.

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Artist: G. H. W Ashley (1908 – , Canadian)

Title: Untitled [Mt. Assiniboine]

Date: 1932

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 41.0 x 48.5 cm

Description: Mt. Assiniboine and Lake Magog.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Mount Assiniboine; Lake Magog

Credit: Gift of Douglas Hare, Banff, 1997

Catalogue Number: AsH.02.01

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Maligne Lake, Jasper, 1935

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Artist: Frederick Banting (1891 – 1941, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1935

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: BaF.02.01

Description: Maligne Lake with Spirit Island at centre foreground. The lake takes up half of the painting, while the mountains and sky fill the other half.

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Artist: Frederick Banting (1891 – 1941, Canadian)

Title: Maligne Lake, Jasper, 1935

Date: 1935 – 1935

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 44.2 x 44.2 cm

Description: Maligne Lake with Spirit Island at centre foreground. The lake takes up half of the painting, while the mountains and sky fill the other half.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Maligne Lake; Spirit Island

Credit: Gift of Donald Grace, Saanichton, 1997

Catalogue Number: BaF.02.01

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Hawaiian Islands

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Artist: E. B. Brackway

Date: 1930 – 1960

Medium: oil on heavy paper

Catalogue Number: BrE.02.01

Description: A line of palm trees is in forefront of picture, various heights, the ocean is behind the trees, a three-masted steamship is in the left of the picture, a row of mountains to the centre right. The sky is taupe coloured with the sun not far off the horizon.

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Artist: E. B. Brackway

Title: Hawaiian Islands

Date: 1930 – 1960

Medium: oil on heavy paper

Dimensions: 21 x 54.4 cm

Description: A line of palm trees is in forefront of picture, various heights, the ocean is behind the trees, a three-masted steamship is in the left of the picture, a row of mountains to the centre right. The sky is taupe coloured with the sun not far off the horizon.

Subject: landscape, ocean, palmtrees, mountains; transportation, steamship

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

Catalogue Number: BrE.02.01

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Mountain Goats and Mount Assiniboine

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: 1941

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.06

Description: General colour: blue, green, grey. Two mountain goats look over a cliff at right into misty valley below. A hawk flys in the cloud lower left. In the upper left is a mountain. The peak is up center and is slightly behind a cloud. The sky is bright yellow.

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Mountain Goats and Mount Assiniboine

Date: 1941

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 45.0 x 59.0 cm

Description: General colour: blue, green, grey. Two mountain goats look over a cliff at right into misty valley below. A hawk flys in the cloud lower left. In the upper left is a mountain. The peak is up center and is slightly behind a cloud. The sky is bright yellow.

Subject: landscape; Rocky Mountains; mountain; Mount Assiniboine; animal; mountain goat

Credit: Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1973

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.06

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Massive Range

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: 1942

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.07

Description: General colour: purple, blue and yellow. Foreground - flowers, grass, a log lies left to center. Poplars with occasional pine, in the distance make a horizon. Three chunks of mountain rise up behind and a grey clouded sky fills the top.

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Massive Range

Date: 1942

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 22.0 x 27.0 cm

Description: General colour: purple, blue and yellow. Foreground - flowers, grass, a log lies left to center. Poplars with occasional pine, in the distance make a horizon. Three chunks of mountain rise up behind and a grey clouded sky fills the top.

Subject: landscape; Rocky Mountains; mountain; Massive Range

Credit: Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1974

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.07

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Mount Saskatchewan

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.08

Description: Three Rams are standing on the edge of a cliff looking over the edge out at the mountains in the background. The mountains in the background have many clouds around them and the sky is also very cloudy. There are trees down close to the bottom of the image in the center and the Rams are facing the …

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Mount Saskatchewan

Date: 1940

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 50.0 x 51.0 cm

Description: Three Rams are standing on the edge of a cliff looking over the edge out at the mountains in the background. The mountains in the background have many clouds around them and the sky is also very cloudy. There are trees down close to the bottom of the image in the center and the Rams are facing the left side of the painting with their backs to the right.

Subject: landscape; Rocky Mountains; mountain; animal; mountain sheep

Credit: Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1979

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.08

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The Red Onion, Banff

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Artist: M. L. Carrick

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: CiM.02.01

Description: Small cabin in foreground, Cascade Mountain and Fairholme Range behind.

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Artist: M. L. Carrick

Title: The Red Onion, Banff

Date: 1934

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 26.7 x 36.3 cm

Description: Small cabin in foreground, Cascade Mountain and Fairholme Range behind.

Subject: architecture; rural; log cabin; landscape; Canadian Rockies; Fairholme Range

Credit: Gift of Jannis Allan Hare, Banff, 2004

Catalogue Number: CiM.02.01

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Untitled (Reminiscent of an old English Village)

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: CoJ.02.08

Description: A dirt road leading into a small village. Large house in center with smaller houses in the background to the left. Perspective of a viewer from the road as it leaves a wooded area and continues towards houses.

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Untitled (Reminiscent of an old English Village)

Date: 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 63 x 75 cm

Description: A dirt road leading into a small village. Large house in center with smaller houses in the background to the left. Perspective of a viewer from the road as it leaves a wooded area and continues towards houses.

Subject: English Village; dirt road; wood; trees; houses; England

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.02.08

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The Rockies from the Bow River

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Artist: Maurice Galbraith Cullen (1866 – 1934, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: CuM.02.01

Description: A snowy mountain landscape with the Bow River in the bottom quarter and a cloudy blue sky in the top quarter.

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Artist: Maurice Galbraith Cullen (1866 – 1934, Canadian)

Title: The Rockies from the Bow River

Date: 1930

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 36.0 x 46.5 cm

Description: A snowy mountain landscape with the Bow River in the bottom quarter and a cloudy blue sky in the top quarter.

Subject: Mountain; Bow River; tree; evergreen; snow; winter

Credit: Gift of Barbara McMorland, Calgary, 2017

Catalogue Number: CuM.02.01

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Moraine Lake

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: c. 1947

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.02

Description: The lake dominates from centre to bottom of picture, sweeping colours of green, blue, and white; mountain showing moraines with snow in top half of picture. The top of the mountain is not showing. Green trees around lake.

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Moraine Lake

Date: c. 1947

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40.5 x 50.5 cm

Description: The lake dominates from centre to bottom of picture, sweeping colours of green, blue, and white; mountain showing moraines with snow in top half of picture. The top of the mountain is not showing. Green trees around lake.

Subject: landscape; lake

Credit: Purchased from Sotheby Parke Bernet (Canada) Ltd, Toronto, 1983

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.02

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Father Jean Louis Levern

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Artist: Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)

Date: 1945

Medium: painting on board

Catalogue Number: DgN.02.04

Description: An oil painting portrait of a man. An elderly man dominates the painting. The man has grey hair and is wearing a black high-necked coat with a large gold cross hanging on a black string around his neck. The background is a yellow-brown. The primary colours used are black, brown, yellow and red. The…

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Artist: Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)

Title: Father Jean Louis Levern

Date: 1945

Medium: painting on board

Dimensions: 59.0 x 41.7 cm

Description: An oil painting portrait of a man. An elderly man dominates the painting. The man has grey hair and is wearing a black high-necked coat with a large gold cross hanging on a black string around his neck. The background is a yellow-brown. The primary colours used are black, brown, yellow and red. The bottom of the canvas is unfinished/ left blank except for the artist signature in pencil in the blhc and in the brhc, “F. J. Levern, A.M.I - 1945 Cardston, Alberta”. Au verso, in black ink in the top lhc, “# 47”. And left of centre near the bottom is a piece of white paper with black text taped onto the board, see Narrative.

Subject: portrait; man; priest; Nicolas de Grandmaison

Credit: Gift of Nicolas Jr. de Grandmaison, Vancouver, 2011

Catalogue Number: DgN.02.04

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Georgia Engelhard

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Artist: Edward Forn

Date: 1946

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: FoE.02.01

Description: A woman, Georgia Engelhard, stands in the centre of the picture, her legs cut off at centre thigh at bottom of picture, she is wearing blue pants and red checkered shirt, a blue/green hat in her right hand at her waist, she is looking straight forward, short blond hair, blue eyes and rosy cheeks, …

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Artist: Edward Forn

Title: Georgia Engelhard

Date: 1946

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 81.0 x 66.0 cm

Description: A woman, Georgia Engelhard, stands in the centre of the picture, her legs cut off at centre thigh at bottom of picture, she is wearing blue pants and red checkered shirt, a blue/green hat in her right hand at her waist, she is looking straight forward, short blond hair, blue eyes and rosy cheeks, the background top quarter is a cloudy sky, centre a range of mountains (Mount Assiniboine), a line of green and yellow trees, the bottom of the picture behind the lady is a lake

Subject: portrait; female; Georgia Engelhard

Credit: Gift of Eaton Cromwell, Bryn Mawr, USA, 1988

Catalogue Number: FoE.02.01

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Valley of the Ten Peaks

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Artist: Kenneth Keith Forbes (1892 – 1980, Canadian)

Date: 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: FoK.02.01

Description: General colour: tans, purples. There is a glacier at the center top of the canvas. A lake in the bottom right corner. Scree and trees fill lower third. Two bits of sky at the top. Major pat of the canvas is rock face of the mountain.

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Artist: Kenneth Keith Forbes (1892 – 1980, Canadian)

Title: Valley of the Ten Peaks

Date: 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 46.9 x 59.9 cm

Description: General colour: tans, purples. There is a glacier at the center top of the canvas. A lake in the bottom right corner. Scree and trees fill lower third. Two bits of sky at the top. Major pat of the canvas is rock face of the mountain.

Subject: landscape, mountain; landscape, Valley of the Ten Peaks

Credit: Purchased from Christie's of Canada, Toronto, 1970

Catalogue Number: FoK.02.01

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#4 Wildfires

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Artist: Robert Guest (1938 – 2017, Canadian)

Date: 2011

Medium: oil on wood

Catalogue Number: GuR.02.01

Description: A landscape oil painting, on board, of forest on fire. The painting is dominated by one central tree. Fallen tree on fire diagonally across painting in foreground. Background is thick forest on fire and some blue sky with orange smoke. Primarily red, green, blue and yellow color palette. Au verso s…

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Artist: Robert Guest (1938 – 2017, Canadian)

Title: #4 Wildfires

Date: 2011

Medium: oil on wood

Dimensions: 19.2 x 24.3 cm

Description: A landscape oil painting, on board, of forest on fire. The painting is dominated by one central tree. Fallen tree on fire diagonally across painting in foreground. Background is thick forest on fire and some blue sky with orange smoke. Primarily red, green, blue and yellow color palette. Au verso several stickers. At top white with black printing “THIS PAINTING HAS BEEN DONATED TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF THE WHYTE MUSEUM OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES AT BANFF. IT IS A GIFT FROM THE ARTIST, ROBERT GUEST OF GRANDE CACHE. 2012.” Sticker middle right is yellow with black print, “ CAUTION! HELP AVOID FADING: Display original artwork out of direct sunlight or other strong light, and away from heat or moist conditions!” Bottom left label, white with black printing, “#4. Wildfires./2011” NEW OILPAINT SERIES - 8X10 “ PANELS AT GRANDE CACHE, BY R. GUEST.” Bottom left sticker, blue with black print, see artist bio.