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Jimmy Simpson

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

Date: 1983

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: AsH.03.01

Description: Portrait of Jimmy Simpson.

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

Title: Jimmy Simpson

Date: 1983

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 65.0 x 50.0 cm

Description: Portrait of Jimmy Simpson.

Subject: characters; Jimmy Simpson; portrait; male

Credit: Gift of G. H. W Ashley, Salmon Arm, 1992

Catalogue Number: AsH.03.01

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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 [Portrait of Catharine Robb]

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Artist: Frederick Andrew Bosley (1881 – 1942, American)

Date: 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: BoF.02.01

Description: A portrait of Catharine Robb sitting in an arm chair, wearing a red silk dress. Over the dress she is wearing a red coloured robe that has a light blue or gray trim on the front and around the edges of the sleeves. The background is a dark burgundy colour.

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Artist: Frederick Andrew Bosley (1881 – 1942, American)

Title: Untitled [Portrait of Catharine Robb]

Date: 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 114.3 x 99.5 cm

Description: A portrait of Catharine Robb sitting in an arm chair, wearing a red silk dress. Over the dress she is wearing a red coloured robe that has a light blue or gray trim on the front and around the edges of the sleeves. The background is a dark burgundy colour.

Subject: portrait; Catharine Robb Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: BoF.02.01

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

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Lake near Mount Assiniboine

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Artist: Frederick Henry Brigden (1871 – 1956, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BrF.05.01

Description: Lake in Mt. Assiniboine area.

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Artist: Frederick Henry Brigden (1871 – 1956, Canadian)

Title: Lake near Mount Assiniboine

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 27.5 x 37.9 cm

Description: Lake in Mt. Assiniboine area.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; Mt. Assiniboine area

Credit: Purchased from Hodgins Art Auctions Ltd., Calgary, 2004

Catalogue Number: BrF.05.01

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

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Untitled [Peter Whyte]

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Artist: Terence P. Bresnahan (1907 – 1972, American)

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: BrT.03.01

Description: A portrait of Peter looking to the left. Peters collar is suggested with a few lines.

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Artist: Terence P. Bresnahan (1907 – 1972, American)

Title: Untitled [Peter Whyte]

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 32.5 x 22.3 cm

Description: A portrait of Peter looking to the left. Peters collar is suggested with a few lines.

Subject: portrait; male; Peter Whyte

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

Catalogue Number: BrT.03.01

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When the Ice Goes Out

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: BwB.01.01

Description: General colour: green, grey. Rocky point of land comes down to the water from the lower left corner across the lower edge to right center. The green water has chunks of ice floating on it. The far shore of trees, one third up, rises quickly to two mountains. One is to the right the other in the dis…

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: When the Ice Goes Out

Date: 1929

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 23 x 28 cm

Description: General colour: green, grey. Rocky point of land comes down to the water from the lower left corner across the lower edge to right center. The green water has chunks of ice floating on it. The far shore of trees, one third up, rises quickly to two mountains. One is to the right the other in the distance at center. The grey sky fills the upper corner.

Subject: landscape; lake; mountains; Lake Minnewanka; Mount Inglismaldie

Credit: Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1970

Catalogue Number: BwB.01.01

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Portrait of Dr. Brett

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Artist: A.F. Cels

Date: 1907

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CeA.03.01

Description: General colour: black and white on yellow brown. The head of a man turned slightly left. He has a long mustache and his hair parts a little to the right of center.

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Artist: A.F. Cels

Title: Portrait of Dr. Brett

Date: 1907

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.6 x 15.5 cm

Description: General colour: black and white on yellow brown. The head of a man turned slightly left. He has a long mustache and his hair parts a little to the right of center.

Subject: portrait; male; Dr. R. G. Brett

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

Catalogue Number: CeA.03.01

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Portrait of Enos Hunter

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: ChG.02.01

Description: Portrait of a man (Enos Hunter) sitting straight on and looking slightly to the right. His braids run down off the canvas. He wears a necklace of beads and a circular medallion. From his shoulders hang yellow and dark green feathers. The background is tan and grey.

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Title: Portrait of Enos Hunter

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 59.7 x 49.6 cm

Description: Portrait of a man (Enos Hunter) sitting straight on and looking slightly to the right. His braids run down off the canvas. He wears a necklace of beads and a circular medallion. From his shoulders hang yellow and dark green feathers. The background is tan and grey.

Subject: portrait; male; Enos Hunter

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1969

Catalogue Number: ChG.02.01

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Untitled [Native Man]

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Date: 1949

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.01

Description: A portrait of an Indigenous man. His hair is grey and worn in two braids. He is wearing several strings of beads around his neck. His shirt or tunic is purple. A purple and orange checked blanket is wrapped around his shoulders. It is visible in both the bottom left corner and the bottom right…

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [Native Man]

Date: 1949

Medium: pastel on paper

Description: A portrait of an Indigenous man. His hair is grey and worn in two braids. He is wearing several strings of beads around his neck. His shirt or tunic is purple. A purple and orange checked blanket is wrapped around his shoulders. It is visible in both the bottom left corner and the bottom right corner. Behind his shoulder on the left, a tipi is visible. Smoke is coming out of the top of it. Brown, craggy mountains are visible across the horizon. The sky moves up from yellow to green to blue. Clouds at the top of the image are orange.

Subject: portrait; male; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Doris Gammon, Banff, 2000

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.01

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Chief John Hunter

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Date: 1949

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.02

Description: Portrait of Chief John Hunter, facing toward the right of the image. His hair is black and in two braids. Wisps of hair are loose and blowing in the wind. His face is wrinked, particularly around his mouth. His coat is white and he is wearing orange and green scarves. In the bottom right corne…

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Title: Chief John Hunter

Date: 1949

Medium: pastel on paper

Description: Portrait of Chief John Hunter, facing toward the right of the image. His hair is black and in two braids. Wisps of hair are loose and blowing in the wind. His face is wrinked, particularly around his mouth. His coat is white and he is wearing orange and green scarves. In the bottom right corner, trees are visible. Above them are loosely drawn mountains. The sky is green (light and dark) and mauve.

Subject: portrait; male; Chief John Hunter

Credit: Gift of Doris Gammon, Banff, 2000

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.02

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Untitled (First Nations child)

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.04

Description: A portrait of a young Indigenous girl. It shows head and neck only, black hair in a braids; one braid hanging down the front on viewer’s right. She has dark skin, very pink cheeks and lips and is wearing a pink and blue top. Signed, between the end of the braid and mat, viewer’s right, printed with…

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Title: Untitled (First Nations child)

Date: 1970

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 21.0 x 14.2 cm

Description: A portrait of a young Indigenous girl. It shows head and neck only, black hair in a braids; one braid hanging down the front on viewer’s right. She has dark skin, very pink cheeks and lips and is wearing a pink and blue top. Signed, between the end of the braid and mat, viewer’s right, printed with brown pastel “Christoffersen”.

Subject: portrait; child; girl; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Margaret Reid (Estate), 2008

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.04

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Untitled (First Nations child)

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.05

Description: A pastel portrait from chest upwards, of a very young Indigenous boy. He has black hair in short braids tied with red fabric. He is wearing what could be a buckskin jacket/shirt and has two beaded necklaces around his neck: a red and green necklace and a diamond-shaped necklace connected by purple …

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Title: Untitled (First Nations child)

Date: 1970

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 24.0 x 20.0 cm

Description: A pastel portrait from chest upwards, of a very young Indigenous boy. He has black hair in short braids tied with red fabric. He is wearing what could be a buckskin jacket/shirt and has two beaded necklaces around his neck: a red and green necklace and a diamond-shaped necklace connected by purple and red beads. Signed, between the end of the diamond-shaped necklace and mat, viewer’s right, printed with black pastel “Christoffersen”.

Subject: portrait; child; boy; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Margaret Reid (Estate), 2008

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.05

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At Lake Minnewanka

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Artist: Doris Cormie

Date: 1938

Medium: painting on paper

Catalogue Number: CmD.05.05

Description: A watercolour landscape painting of mountains and a lake. There are three grey mountains in the background and behind them is a cloudless blue sky. In the foreground is a blue-green lake. On the bottom right, part of the shore with three large rocks, is visible. In the centre at the bottom, a few b…

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Artist: Doris Cormie

Title: At Lake Minnewanka

Date: 1938

Medium: painting on paper

Dimensions: 26.0 x 37.0 cm

Description: A watercolour landscape painting of mountains and a lake. There are three grey mountains in the background and behind them is a cloudless blue sky. In the foreground is a blue-green lake. On the bottom right, part of the shore with three large rocks, is visible. In the centre at the bottom, a few branches and two logs are breaking through the water. On the left side a large boulder sits in the water. In the middle ground there is forest along the lake shore. The forest starts out of frame on the right and extends just over halfway across the painting. Behind the forest on the left are two green hills. Greys, blues, greens and brown are the primary colours used. The artist signature is in the bottom rhc. Au verso, written in pencil along the bottom edge is, “At Lake Minnewanka aug 28/38 Doris Cormie” and also in pencil in the centre of the paper is “27” with a circle around it. Just right of centre near the top is written, “5334”.

Subject: landscape; lake; mountains; Doris Cormie

Credit: Gift of Barry Hunter Gillis, Richmond, 2006

Catalogue Number: CmD.05.05

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Mount Edith

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Artist: Doris Cormie

Date: 1938

Medium: painting on paper

Catalogue Number: CmD.05.06

Description: A watercolour painting of a mountain landscape with a lake. A distinct and pointed Mt. Edith right of centre in the background dominates this painting. The mountain is beige with green and grey. Behind the mountain is a blue cloudless sky. To the left of Mt. Edith is a mountain range extending out …

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Artist: Doris Cormie

Title: Mount Edith

Date: 1938

Medium: painting on paper

Dimensions: 30.0 x 40.0 cm

Description: A watercolour painting of a mountain landscape with a lake. A distinct and pointed Mt. Edith right of centre in the background dominates this painting. The mountain is beige with green and grey. Behind the mountain is a blue cloudless sky. To the left of Mt. Edith is a mountain range extending out of frame and on the right is the side of another mountain leading out of frame. In the middle ground is a short line of shrubs and trees with two tall pine trees on the far right. In the foreground is an indigo and blue lake with the shore visible along the bottom edge, predominately on the right side. Blue, purple, green, grey and beige are the main colours used. The artist signature is at the bottom right. Au verso, written in pencil along the bottom, “Mt. Edith Cormie Aug 24/38”. Written right of centre in the bottom half of the paper is, “14 x 10 1/4 6 x 6 1/2 20 x 16 3/4”. Written on the left side mid way up is, “51” with a circle around it.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Mount. Edith; lake; Doris Cormie

Credit: Gift of Barry Hunter Gillis, Richmond, 2006

Catalogue Number: CmD.05.06

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Melora

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

Date: c. 1890

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.097

Description: Profile portrait of the bust of a woman with her head gazing downwards.“The woman’s head is bowed as though she is preoccupied with something in front of her; perhaps it is the artist’s wife, Mellora, playing the piano. The woman’s eyes and mouth, and tendrils of hair at the nape are treated sensit…

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

Title: Melora

Date: c. 1890

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25 x 18 cm

Description: Profile portrait of the bust of a woman with her head gazing downwards.“The woman’s head is bowed as though she is preoccupied with something in front of her; perhaps it is the artist’s wife, Mellora, playing the piano. The woman’s eyes and mouth, and tendrils of hair at the nape are treated sensitively while flowers in the background underscore her femininity.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: portrait; Mellora Collings

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.097

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On the Columbia between Revelstoke and Arrow Lakes

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

Date: c. 1925

Medium: graphite on oil paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.106

Description: Scene with a lake in the forground center moving back over sloping forests to the mountain in the background.“It is not surprising that this soft, moody sketch shows some wear as Collings seems to have been travelling by canoe. The artist would have been well into his seventies on this trip.” -- …

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

Title: On the Columbia between Revelstoke and Arrow Lakes

Date: c. 1925

Medium: graphite on oil paper

Dimensions: 26 x 20 cm

Description: Scene with a lake in the forground center moving back over sloping forests to the mountain in the background.“It is not surprising that this soft, moody sketch shows some wear as Collings seems to have been travelling by canoe. The artist would have been well into his seventies on this trip.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath

Subject: landscape; lake; stream

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1985

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.106

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Mellora

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

Date: c. 1910

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.348

Description: A side view of a woman in a dress and hat.

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

Title: Mellora

Date: c. 1910

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 14.5 x 5.5 cm

Description: A side view of a woman in a dress and hat.

Subject: figure; study; portrait; Mellora Collings

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.348

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A Flat in Caribou Country

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

Date: c. 1915

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.353

Description: A lake scene with trees to the left, water in the foreground, and mountains and more trees in the background.Title is in top left corner: “A Flat in Caribou Country”Other writing throughout denoting colour scheme.

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

Title: A Flat in Caribou Country

Date: c. 1915

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.0 x 26.0 cm

Description: A lake scene with trees to the left, water in the foreground, and mountains and more trees in the background.Title is in top left corner: “A Flat in Caribou Country”Other writing throughout denoting colour scheme.