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Lake Agnes, Canadian Rockies

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Artist: Louis Akhi

Date: 1910

Medium: oil on canvas on board

Catalogue Number: AkL.02.01

Description: A mountain top view of Lake Agnes in the Canadian Rockies. In the foreground on the right are trees and land sloping to the left of the image. Behind the lake in the background are mountains with snow and a medium to light toned sky above.

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Artist: Louis Akhi

Title: Lake Agnes, Canadian Rockies

Date: 1910

Medium: oil on canvas on board

Dimensions: 40.3 x 30.4 cm

Description: A mountain top view of Lake Agnes in the Canadian Rockies. In the foreground on the right are trees and land sloping to the left of the image. Behind the lake in the background are mountains with snow and a medium to light toned sky above.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Lake Agnes

Credit: Gift of George K.K. (Tommy) Link, Tucson, USA, 1979

Catalogue Number: AkL.02.01

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Mountains near Jasper, 1914

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Artist: John William Beatty (1869 – 1941, Canadian)

Date: 1914

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: BeJ.02.01

Description: Oil painting depicting a mountain scene near Jasper. A dark green mountain in the foreground slopes up to the left of the image. In the bottom right corner, small brushstrokes of deep indigo blue are visible. Beyond the slope of this mountain, other mountains are visible in the distance. They a…

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Artist: John William Beatty (1869 – 1941, Canadian)

Title: Mountains near Jasper, 1914

Date: 1914

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 35 x 39 cm

Description: Oil painting depicting a mountain scene near Jasper. A dark green mountain in the foreground slopes up to the left of the image. In the bottom right corner, small brushstrokes of deep indigo blue are visible. Beyond the slope of this mountain, other mountains are visible in the distance. They are painted in shades of mauve and blue. The mountain at the centre of the painting is capped by snow. The sky is a grey mauve colour.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Jasper National Park

Credit: Purchased from Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 2003

Catalogue Number: BeJ.02.01

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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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Fireweed

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Artist: Mary Black

Date: 1911

Medium: dried flowers; grass; butterfly on paper

Catalogue Number: BlM.13.01

Description: Two fire weed plants run the length and tilt to the right at the top. A butterfly hangs upside down in the upperleft corner. General colour-brown on soft grey white.

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Artist: Mary Black

Title: Fireweed

Date: 1911

Medium: dried flowers; grass; butterfly on paper

Dimensions: 49.5 x 21.5 cm

Description: Two fire weed plants run the length and tilt to the right at the top. A butterfly hangs upside down in the upperleft corner. General colour-brown on soft grey white.

Subject: botanical; fireweed; animal; butterfly

Credit: Gift of Fern Brewster Dooley, Banff, 1966

Catalogue Number: BlM.13.01

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Lady Slipper, Sicamous

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Artist: Mary Black

Date: 1911

Medium: grass; fireweed on paper

Catalogue Number: BlM.13.02

Description: Yellow brown plants. Several stems, the leaves are near the bottom, sic pods throughout. Upper part mostly bare paper.

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Artist: Mary Black

Title: Lady Slipper, Sicamous

Date: 1911

Medium: grass; fireweed on paper

Dimensions: 49.5 x 21.5 cm

Description: Yellow brown plants. Several stems, the leaves are near the bottom, sic pods throughout. Upper part mostly bare paper.

Subject: botanical; grass; stems; leaves

Credit: Gift of Fern Brewster Dooley, Banff, 1966

Catalogue Number: BlM.13.02

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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”