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Artist: Sakurai Seppo (1753 – 1824, Japanese)

Date: 1870 – 1890

Medium: wood; fibre

Catalogue Number: 103.08.0261 a,b

Description: Palmate, flat fans with carved, black gold lacquer handles with purple tassels. (a) lady in a house reading, lady is quilted to create relief. Lamp, books and table and teapot are appliqued cut outs;. Calligraphy and chop mark on right. Obverse of fan is trellis and blossoms (b) two ladies with …

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Artist: Sakurai Seppo (1753 – 1824, Japanese)

Title: fan

Date: 1870 – 1890

Medium: wood; fibre

Dimensions: 0.7 x 23.0 x 35.8 cm

Description: Palmate, flat fans with carved, black gold lacquer handles with purple tassels. (a) lady in a house reading, lady is quilted to create relief. Lamp, books and table and teapot are appliqued cut outs;. Calligraphy and chop mark on right. Obverse of fan is trellis and blossoms (b) two ladies with insect cage, hunting in reeds. Ladies and cage quilted to create relief. Calligraphy and chop mark on right, obverse plain. Both fans are fabric over bamboo or reed with painted and appliqued designs.

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

Catalogue Number: 103.08.0261 a,b

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Trusting

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Date: 1993

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.09

Description: A figure dressed in a black hat, black blouse, printed black pants, red socks, black shoes is at centre top, walking on grey crumbling blocks. Below and in the foreground is a range of peaked mountains, dark colours of blue, purple and some green with some snow cover on centre mountains. A row o…

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Title: Trusting

Date: 1993

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 43.2 x 30.5 cm

Description: A figure dressed in a black hat, black blouse, printed black pants, red socks, black shoes is at centre top, walking on grey crumbling blocks. Below and in the foreground is a range of peaked mountains, dark colours of blue, purple and some green with some snow cover on centre mountains. A row of black trees lines a lake in the foreground, splashes of colour reflect in the lake. The sky has red, purple tones fading to white at the top.

Subject: landscape; mountains; mythological; figure

Credit: Gift of Patricia Askren, Lakonias, Greece, 1993

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.09

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Big Bear Medicine

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Artist: Dale Auger (1958 – 2008, Canadian)

Date: 1998

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Catalogue Number: AuD.12.01

Description: A large painting of an Indigenous dressed as a bear. The man’s face is visible through the mouth of the bear fur that covers him. The man’s eyes are hidden by shadows. Yellow and black paint is on the rest of his face. In the claws, the man holds a wand-like stick, at the tip of which are four …

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Artist: Dale Auger (1958 – 2008, Canadian)

Title: Big Bear Medicine

Date: 1998

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 92.5 x 92.5 cm

Description: A large painting of an Indigenous dressed as a bear. The man’s face is visible through the mouth of the bear fur that covers him. The man’s eyes are hidden by shadows. Yellow and black paint is on the rest of his face. In the claws, the man holds a wand-like stick, at the tip of which are four feathers. These are in the blc of the image. On either side of the bear’s head are patches of aquamarine.

Subject: religious; Indigenous; animal; bear

Credit: Purchased from Bernie Makokis, St. Paul, 2001

Catalogue Number: AuD.12.01

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Eagle Lodge Offering

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Artist: Dale Auger (1958 – 2008, Canadian)

Date: 1999

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Catalogue Number: AuD.12.02

Description: Un-framed acrylic on canvas entitled “eagle Lodge Offering”, 1999. All four sides are painted black with staples that are visible. The main image depicts a bird with red and white coloured sticks coming out of its mouth. The bird is perched on a white textured object (possibly a skull). The bird h…

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Artist: Dale Auger (1958 – 2008, Canadian)

Title: Eagle Lodge Offering

Date: 1999

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 62.5 x 62.5 cm

Description: Un-framed acrylic on canvas entitled “eagle Lodge Offering”, 1999. All four sides are painted black with staples that are visible. The main image depicts a bird with red and white coloured sticks coming out of its mouth. The bird is perched on a white textured object (possibly a skull). The bird has a dot of red paint in its eye. The colour palette of this painting is very typical Auger: red, turquoise, yellow /gold, black and white.

Credit: Gift of Jim and Sue Van der Sloot, Medicine Hat , 2010

Catalogue Number: AuD.12.02

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Drawing on Peaks

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Artist: David Alexander (1947 – , Canadian)

Date: 1998

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Catalogue Number: AxD.12.01

Description: brown, blue and orange mountain peak

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Artist: David Alexander (1947 – , Canadian)

Title: Drawing on Peaks

Date: 1998

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 172.72 x 121.92 cm

Description: brown, blue and orange mountain peak

Subject: mountain; peak

Credit: Gift of David T. Alexander, Lake Country, 2017

Catalogue Number: AxD.12.01

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Vessel

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Artist: Edward Bamiling (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 1992

Catalogue Number: BaE.06.01

Description: Slabs of clay, rolled ca. 1.0 cm thick in various widths and height of vessel, narrow at foot widen out at top into an irregular edge, earth colours with fire black near bottom and up sides

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Artist: Edward Bamiling (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Vessel

Date: 1992

Dimensions: 74.5 x 38.0 cm

Description: Slabs of clay, rolled ca. 1.0 cm thick in various widths and height of vessel, narrow at foot widen out at top into an irregular edge, earth colours with fire black near bottom and up sides

Subject: abstract; expressionist

Credit: Purchased from Edward Bamiling, Banff, 1992

Catalogue Number: BaE.06.01

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View from The Rock Pile, Moraine Lake

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Artist: Mark A. Brennan (1968 – , Canadian)

Date: 2007

Medium: print on paper

Catalogue Number: BeM.04.01

Description: General colours of grey, white, green, purple, grey, gold, black and blue. In the foreground is a rock pile painted in shades of purple, grey and green, and to the viewer’s extreme right, the blue of the north end of Moraine Lake. Above the rock pile to the viewer’s left are a stand of coniferous t…

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Artist: Mark A. Brennan (1968 – , Canadian)

Title: View from The Rock Pile, Moraine Lake

Date: 2007

Medium: print on paper

Dimensions: 20.2 x 24.7 cm

Description: General colours of grey, white, green, purple, grey, gold, black and blue. In the foreground is a rock pile painted in shades of purple, grey and green, and to the viewer’s extreme right, the blue of the north end of Moraine Lake. Above the rock pile to the viewer’s left are a stand of coniferous tree becoming sparser (seven trees) as the eye turns to the right ending at the edge of the rock pile. To the viewer’s left, above the foreground trees, are hills covered in snow and trees and the massive grey, green, and brown Tower of Babel mountain mid- to right. Below the Tower and to the right is the dark grey and black rock slide, sparsely covered with trees, which rises to the slate-coloured mountain. Snow-covered chutes and gullies lined with trees rise from behind the rock pile to the viewer’s extreme right.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Tower of Babel; Morraine Lake

Credit: Gift of Kerry Guenter, 2008

Catalogue Number: BeM.04.01

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Lone Tree Below Illecillewaet Glacier

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Artist: Dianne Bos (1956 – , Canadian)

Date: 2000

Medium: photograph on photographic paper

Catalogue Number: BoD.18.01

Description: Colour photograph of tree in foreground. Behind it there is a mountain landscape. Around the tree is a rocky area. Clouds extend across the sky.

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Artist: Dianne Bos (1956 – , Canadian)

Title: Lone Tree Below Illecillewaet Glacier

Date: 2000

Medium: photograph on photographic paper

Description: Colour photograph of tree in foreground. Behind it there is a mountain landscape. Around the tree is a rocky area. Clouds extend across the sky.

Subject: botanical; tree; landscape; Canadian Rockies; Illecillewaet Glacier

Credit: Purchased from Robert Smith, Banff, 2001

Catalogue Number: BoD.18.01

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Mount Robson, Canada

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Artist: Joan Brown

Date: 2007

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: BrJ.02.01

Description: An oil painting, unframed, on canvas and mounted on a wooden frame, of Mount Robson in B.C. The dominant colours are blue, white, and black. The bottom half of the painting is the rock, snow and ice of the glacier; the middle portion is the towering snowcapped peak of Mount Robson with other snowca…

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Artist: Joan Brown

Title: Mount Robson, Canada

Date: 2007

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 41.0 x 51.5 cm

Description: An oil painting, unframed, on canvas and mounted on a wooden frame, of Mount Robson in B.C. The dominant colours are blue, white, and black. The bottom half of the painting is the rock, snow and ice of the glacier; the middle portion is the towering snowcapped peak of Mount Robson with other snowcapped peaks behind. The top-third is the sky clear light blue and white above the mountains turning to blue clouds above. The painting is signed (printed) in black ink brhc: “JBrown 07” and a “c” in a circle in blue ink to the left of the signature. Au verso, middle of the top of frame, written in magenta ink “20” ”, to the right of that “Mt Robson Canadian Rockies”, on the side viewer’s left “16” ”, and on the bottom in magenta ink, viewer’s left “Title: Mount Robson, Canada”, to the right, in magenta ink, “Artist: Joan A. Brown 03 07”, and underneath that “10 #mtrobsn 07”