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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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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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View of Goat Mountain

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Date: 1888

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.01

Description: Colour: blue, green, yellow. Two people in a canoe paddle across the lake in the lower part of the picture. Two shore lines are seen on both sides. Beyond are yellow and green hills rising up to purple mountain One pear is prominent in the distance. Clear blue fills the top.This painting was lent t…

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Title: View of Goat Mountain

Date: 1888

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 40.5 x 30.3 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green, yellow. Two people in a canoe paddle across the lake in the lower part of the picture. Two shore lines are seen on both sides. Beyond are yellow and green hills rising up to purple mountain One pear is prominent in the distance. Clear blue fills the top.This painting was lent to the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1975 to be included in the exhibition The Railway: A patron of the Arts in Canada. The exhibition was circulated across the country for two years.

Subject: landscape, lake, mountain; Vermilion Lake ?; figure, male

Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Tabuteau, Banff, 1966

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.01

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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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Hector Lake, Kicking Horse Pass, BC

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.07

Description: Mountain landscape with large glassy lake in centre of painting. Abstract foliage and stand of dead trees in foreground at right. Brown treed slopes on opposite shore with large snow-capped mountains in distance. Small white and red buildings on far shore of lake. Title written in bottom left corne…

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Title: Hector Lake, Kicking Horse Pass, BC

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 32.8 x 48.0 cm

Description: Mountain landscape with large glassy lake in centre of painting. Abstract foliage and stand of dead trees in foreground at right. Brown treed slopes on opposite shore with large snow-capped mountains in distance. Small white and red buildings on far shore of lake. Title written in bottom left corner. “F.M. Bell-Smith 1887” at bottom right.

Subject: mountains; lake; CPR

Credit: Gift of Mark Cullen, 2021

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.07

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Untitled [Emblem]

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Artist: Takahashi

Date: 1884

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: BoA.03.01

Description: Centered on the page is a fishing float design. It is circular with a diamond center. On each tip of the diamond is a small circle that joins the larger circle. The inside of the diamond, and the space between the diamond and the circle are shaded with a grey.

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Artist: Takahashi

Title: Untitled [Emblem]

Date: 1884

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 18.0 x 32.5 cm

Description: Centered on the page is a fishing float design. It is circular with a diamond center. On each tip of the diamond is a small circle that joins the larger circle. The inside of the diamond, and the space between the diamond and the circle are shaded with a grey.

Subject: design; fishing float

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

Catalogue Number: BoA.03.01

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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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Untitled

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Artist: Harry Brett ( – 1925, Canadian)

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BrH.05.01

Description: General colour: red, yellow, blue. The left profile and torso of a boy dressed in a uniform. Blue pants with a yellow stripe and a red jacket and a blue hat. He holds a trumpet and faces left.

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Artist: Harry Brett ( – 1925, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 26 x 19 cm

Description: General colour: red, yellow, blue. The left profile and torso of a boy dressed in a uniform. Blue pants with a yellow stripe and a red jacket and a blue hat. He holds a trumpet and faces left.

Subject: NWMP; figure; male

Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Tabuteau, Banff, 1966

Catalogue Number: BrH.05.01

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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”