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Photocopied Summit Registers
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- Scope & Content
- File consists of three photocopied pages (b&w) of summit registers from Mount Bell from July 2001 - July 2002.
- Date Range
- 2001
- 2002
- Reference Code
- M235 / accn. 2014.8322
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Private record
- Textual record
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M235
- Sous-Fonds
- M235
- Accession Number
- 2014.8322
- Reference Code
- M235 / accn. 2014.8322
- Responsibility
- Whyte Museum
- Date Range
- 2001
- 2002
- Physical Description
- 3 textual records: photocopied pages
- Scope & Content
- File consists of three photocopied pages (b&w) of summit registers from Mount Bell from July 2001 - July 2002.
- Notes
- Accessioned by Margaret Weller.
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Access Restrictions
- Items in this file are not to be accessed or distributed without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Items in this file are not to be reproduced without the explicit permission of their identified copyright owners.
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Items must be stored flat and kept away from potentially harmful materials.
- Creator
- Unknown
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Mt. Willingdon Summit Register
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- Date Range
- 1983
- 1985
- 1991
- 1994
- 1996
- 1998
- 2003
- 2005-2013
- Reference Code
- M235 / accn. 2014.8377
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Private record
- Textual record
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M235
- Sous-Fonds
- M235
- Accession Number
- 2014.8377
- Reference Code
- M235 / accn. 2014.8377
- Responsibility
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Date Range
- 1983
- 1985
- 1991
- 1994
- 1996
- 1998
- 2003
- 2005-2013
- Physical Description
- 4 Textual records: 1 notebook and 3 loose pages of notes, handwritten
- Notes
- Accessioned by Jennifer Rutkair on December 1, 2014
- Subject Access
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Register
- Summit
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Items must be stored flat. keep notebook in mylar to prevent contact between metal / water damaged material and other items. Consider removing metal spiral if rust causes further damage to notebook pages.
- Creator
- Unknown
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Summit Note from Unnamed Mountain
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- Scope & Content
- Handwritten record of mountain ascent (unnamed mountain located 2.2 km NNE of Mount Folk), written on scrap piece from coconut biscuit box. Author unknown, dated 1964(?). Provides multiple names of climbers, and references Alpine Club and Vancouver. Names written include: Paddy Sherman(?), Werner H…
- Date Range
- ca. 1964 (?)
- Reference Code
- M235 / accn. 8121
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Private record
- Textual record
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- M235
- Sous-Fonds
- M235
- Accession Number
- 8121
- Reference Code
- M235 / accn. 8121
- Responsibility
- Whyte Museum
- Date Range
- ca. 1964 (?)
- Physical Description
- 1 Textual record: handwritten on cardboard in pencil
- History / Biographical
- Recovered July 17, 2011 by David P. Jones of Golden, B.C.; original author/owner unknown. Was originally stored upside down in old rusty sardine can and punctured with several holes caused by lightning.
- Scope & Content
- Handwritten record of mountain ascent (unnamed mountain located 2.2 km NNE of Mount Folk), written on scrap piece from coconut biscuit box. Author unknown, dated 1964(?). Provides multiple names of climbers, and references Alpine Club and Vancouver. Names written include: Paddy Sherman(?), Werner Himmelsbach, Ralph Hutchinson, Don MacLaurin, Joe Hutton, and Bren Moss.
- Subject Access
- Summit
- Mountain
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- British Columbia
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Item must be stored separate from other materials and kept in carefully controlled physical conditions to prevent further damage.
- Creator
- Unknown
- Biographical Source Notes
- Notes provided in accession record (2011) by Lena Goon
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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"Hotel Closed" Sign
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- Printed paper sign, reads "POSITIVELY NO ADMITTANCE HOTEL CLOSED" (no date, no author). Part of a collection of items previously mounted or hung up in Nicholas and Ivy "Willie" Morant's Banff home.
- Date Range
- [ca. 1950 - ca. 1980] (?)
- Reference Code
- M300 / III / D / 62 (O.S.)
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Poster
- Textual record
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- M300 / S20 / V500
- Sous-Fonds
- M300
- Sub-Series
- M300 / II / D : Personal and Family Materials : Collected Material
- Accession Number
- 7784
- Reference Code
- M300 / III / D / 62 (O.S.)
- GMD
- Poster
- Textual record
- Responsibility
- Nicholas Morant
- Date Range
- [ca. 1950 - ca. 1980] (?)
- Physical Description
- 1 Poster/sign, printed construction paper
- Scope & Content
- Printed paper sign, reads "POSITIVELY NO ADMITTANCE HOTEL CLOSED" (no date, no author). Part of a collection of items previously mounted or hung up in Nicholas and Ivy "Willie" Morant's Banff home.
- Name Access
- Morant, Ivy
- Morant, Nicholas
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Banff
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Unknown
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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- Date
- 1967
- Medium
- oil, gesso on cotton canvas
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.01.01
- Description
- One-third painted blue top to bottom, on viewer’s left, one-third painted green, top to bottom, on viewer’s right; in the centre a grey/brown road leading to brown mountains with a white sky above. Signed blhc: “Sinclair ‘87”
1 image
- Title
- Mountain Road
- Date
- 1967
- Medium
- oil, gesso on cotton canvas
- Dimensions
- 23.0 x 20.5 cm
- Description
- One-third painted blue top to bottom, on viewer’s left, one-third painted green, top to bottom, on viewer’s right; in the centre a grey/brown road leading to brown mountains with a white sky above. Signed blhc: “Sinclair ‘87”
- Credit
- Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.01.01
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Rocky Mountain Drawing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsir.03.01
- Date
- 1966
- Medium
- graphite; coloured graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.01
- Description
- Pencil sketch of overlapping mountains at centre leading to viewer’s right; a blue pencil crayon has been used to shade a few mountain tops. Artist signature in bottom brhc corner “Sinclair”.Rocky Mountain Drawing is a precursor to Sinclair’s long career in landscape drawing and painting.
1 image
- Title
- Rocky Mountain Drawing
- Date
- 1966
- Medium
- graphite; coloured graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.9 x 29.7 cm
- Description
- Pencil sketch of overlapping mountains at centre leading to viewer’s right; a blue pencil crayon has been used to shade a few mountain tops. Artist signature in bottom brhc corner “Sinclair”.Rocky Mountain Drawing is a precursor to Sinclair’s long career in landscape drawing and painting.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.01
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- Date
- 1967
- Medium
- graphite on curfew paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.02
- Description
- Impressionistic female face with clouds behind. Signature in the bottom rhc: SinclairPeopled Road is one of his early works to feature the road, in an evolutionary move to his Road Series.
1 image
- Title
- Peopled Road
- Date
- 1967
- Medium
- graphite on curfew paper
- Dimensions
- 31.2 x 26.1 cm
- Description
- Impressionistic female face with clouds behind. Signature in the bottom rhc: SinclairPeopled Road is one of his early works to feature the road, in an evolutionary move to his Road Series.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.02
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Chilcotin Road
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsir.03.03
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- graphite; coloured graphite on curfew paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.03
- Description
- Small sketch of a road with foothills rolling off on either side of the road. The road leads to a mountain range; blue coloured pencil is used to accent the mountain peaks as well as blue spot rain/snow drops centre under image. Artist signature: centre under image Sinclair ‘69.
1 image
- Title
- Chilcotin Road
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- graphite; coloured graphite on curfew paper
- Dimensions
- 26.5 x 31.6 cm
- Description
- Small sketch of a road with foothills rolling off on either side of the road. The road leads to a mountain range; blue coloured pencil is used to accent the mountain peaks as well as blue spot rain/snow drops centre under image. Artist signature: centre under image Sinclair ‘69.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.03
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Waterfall #1 & Waterfall #2
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- Date
- 1994
- Medium
- ink on rice paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.04
- Description
- a)Stark lines leading from the top of the paper leading down to three squiggle lines at the bottom centre of work . The ink is black in colour. b)Black ink mounts at the top of the paper with a thin line flowing towards the bottom of the page. there are several specs of washed out ink spots.
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- Title
- Waterfall #1 & Waterfall #2
- Date
- 1994
- Medium
- ink on rice paper
- Description
- a)Stark lines leading from the top of the paper leading down to three squiggle lines at the bottom centre of work . The ink is black in colour. b)Black ink mounts at the top of the paper with a thin line flowing towards the bottom of the page. there are several specs of washed out ink spots.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.04
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Tunnel Mountain
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- Date
- 2008
- Medium
- graphite on birch veneer; mattboard; Itoya black folder
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.05
- Description
- Small sketch of a rolling mountain, with diagonal lines in the sky. Drawing is mounted on mattboard and Itoya black folder.
1 image
- Title
- Tunnel Mountain
- Date
- 2008
- Medium
- graphite on birch veneer; mattboard; Itoya black folder
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 28 cm
- Description
- Small sketch of a rolling mountain, with diagonal lines in the sky. Drawing is mounted on mattboard and Itoya black folder.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.05
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- Date
- 1967
- Medium
- graphite; crayon on curfew paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.06
- Description
- A lot of curvy lines made by pencil that look like clouds or mountains. On the upper right there is a very small triangle with two black lines and a white stripe in the middle of the two which resembles a road. Signature bottom centre: “Sinclair ‘70”.
1 image
- Title
- Road Fog
- Date
- 1967
- Medium
- graphite; crayon on curfew paper
- Dimensions
- 26.6 x 31.4 cm
- Description
- A lot of curvy lines made by pencil that look like clouds or mountains. On the upper right there is a very small triangle with two black lines and a white stripe in the middle of the two which resembles a road. Signature bottom centre: “Sinclair ‘70”.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.06
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- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- graphite on curfew paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.07
- Description
- A road runs vertically down the bottom centre of the work. The top section of the piece is filled with sketchy suggestions of a mountain.
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- Title
- Textured Pass
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- graphite on curfew paper
- Dimensions
- 26.5 x 31.8 cm
- Description
- A road runs vertically down the bottom centre of the work. The top section of the piece is filled with sketchy suggestions of a mountain.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.07
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- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- graphite; crayon on curfew paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.08
- Description
- A road runs through the centre of the piece. Above the road is a cloud coloured in crayon in shades of purple and pink.
1 image
- Title
- Clouded Road
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- graphite; crayon on curfew paper
- Dimensions
- 26.1 x 31.5 cm
- Description
- A road runs through the centre of the piece. Above the road is a cloud coloured in crayon in shades of purple and pink.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.08
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Rundle Beginning
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- Date
- 1987
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.09
- Description
- “Sinclair 87” under work at front. On back “Leighton Artist Colony’ Rundle Beginning’ c. 2010 Sinclair ‘First Rundle series’ first drawing 1987’ Banff Centre.” “.Rundle.Beginning. c. 2010 Sinclair.”
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- Title
- Rundle Beginning
- Date
- 1987
- Description
- “Sinclair 87” under work at front. On back “Leighton Artist Colony’ Rundle Beginning’ c. 2010 Sinclair ‘First Rundle series’ first drawing 1987’ Banff Centre.” “.Rundle.Beginning. c. 2010 Sinclair.”
- Credit
- Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.03.09
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- Date
- 2001
- Medium
- dry point; embossed print on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.04.01
- Description
- Three small images on one piece of white rice paper. Each image is side by side and contains an image of a mountain . the first image is an embossed mountain, the second image is a dry point printing and the third image is debossed . both end images are simple white of the paper. along the bottom o…
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- Title
- Meeting Point
- Date
- 2001
- Medium
- dry point; embossed print on paper
- Description
- Three small images on one piece of white rice paper. Each image is side by side and contains an image of a mountain . the first image is an embossed mountain, the second image is a dry point printing and the third image is debossed . both end images are simple white of the paper. along the bottom of the piece are the title/signature/ artist proof.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.04.01
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Ribboned Passage
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- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- aquatec stain on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.05.01
- Description
- unpainted road into dark canyon; foreground is unpainted except for pencil drawn lines indicating a road to right of centre; 5 irregular vertical panels, narrow brown at right edge, next panel moss green, dark blue then variant rose, next panel moss green, farthest left panel greyish; left side of …
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- Title
- Ribboned Passage
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- aquatec stain on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.7 x 41.0 cm
- Description
- unpainted road into dark canyon; foreground is unpainted except for pencil drawn lines indicating a road to right of centre; 5 irregular vertical panels, narrow brown at right edge, next panel moss green, dark blue then variant rose, next panel moss green, farthest left panel greyish; left side of painting and foreground unpainted.
- Subject
- abstract
- Credit
- Purchased from Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, 1990
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.05.01
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- Date
- 1983
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.05.02
- Description
- Big sky scene with road through badlands; top 3/4 is sky, very delicately coloured, slight reddish tint at horizon off into yellow and a very slight blue tinge at the top; a brown road with a white stripe down the centre undulates through green topped badlands; blc is white with pencil lines indica…
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- Title
- Forced Entry
- Date
- 1983
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 60.4 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- Big sky scene with road through badlands; top 3/4 is sky, very delicately coloured, slight reddish tint at horizon off into yellow and a very slight blue tinge at the top; a brown road with a white stripe down the centre undulates through green topped badlands; blc is white with pencil lines indicating side of mesa; the picture is outlined with pencil;
- Credit
- Purchased from Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, 1990
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.05.02
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- Date
- 1980
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.05.03
- Description
- Red sky landscape; top two thirds is reddish tones; bottom third is white with green/brown angular shapes separating the two; the picture is outlined with pencil.
1 image
- Title
- Sly Sunset
- Date
- 1980
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 60.4 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- Red sky landscape; top two thirds is reddish tones; bottom third is white with green/brown angular shapes separating the two; the picture is outlined with pencil.
- Credit
- Purchased from Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, 1990
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.05.03
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- Date
- 1977 – 1978
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.05.04
- Description
- Partially painted flower drawing; pencil drawn frame 18.3x12.4; blossom cluster extends beyond pencil frame; peach coloured blossoms; green stem and leaves.
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- Title
- Peach Glad
- Date
- 1977 – 1978
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 28.0 x 19.0 cm
- Description
- Partially painted flower drawing; pencil drawn frame 18.3x12.4; blossom cluster extends beyond pencil frame; peach coloured blossoms; green stem and leaves.
- Subject
- abstract
- Credit
- Purchased from Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, 1990
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.05.04
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- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.05.05
- Description
- Minimally painted red canyon; pencil drawn image frame 46.0x13.7 has tlc painted shapes of red and green; a line drops off from this to left of brc; red/yellow at bottom goes into red/purple then fades off into white; pencil lettered under image DWN UNDE
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- Title
- Down Under
- Date
- 1978
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 56.0 x 19.0 cm
- Description
- Minimally painted red canyon; pencil drawn image frame 46.0x13.7 has tlc painted shapes of red and green; a line drops off from this to left of brc; red/yellow at bottom goes into red/purple then fades off into white; pencil lettered under image DWN UNDE
- Credit
- Purchased from Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, 1990
- Catalogue Number
- SiR.05.05
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