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Rosedale Garden in the Sunlight
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- Artist
- Susan Elkins
- Date
- prior to 1996
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- EiS.02.02
- Description
- Located in the cl and making its way down to the lower right is a stone fence painted with lots of warm colours for example, orange, pink,different yellows and a redish violet. In the foreground are shadows cast by the fence and these are dark green in colour. Around the shadows the ground is yello…
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- Artist
- Susan Elkins
- Title
- Rosedale Garden in the Sunlight
- Date
- prior to 1996
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.1 x 50.8 cm
- Description
- Located in the cl and making its way down to the lower right is a stone fence painted with lots of warm colours for example, orange, pink,different yellows and a redish violet. In the foreground are shadows cast by the fence and these are dark green in colour. Around the shadows the ground is yellow and light green in colour. On the side of the fence that is further away from the viewer there is a door or type of arch way that is covered in green plants. The back area behind this arch is light violet to dark purple in colour with a bit more yellow and green plants in a few areas. On the end of the fence that is further to the left there is some red flowers.
- Credit
- Purchased from Spring for the Arts Art Auction, Calgary, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- EiS.02.02
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Mount Wilson From Graveyard
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- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- ShM.02.01
- Description
- The bottom third of the painting features a lake or body of water surrounded on both sides by trees. Rocks and pieces of stumps and wood are situated across the foreground. The background shows a very large mountain range green, blue and light blue grey in colour. The sky around the mountains and t…
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- Title
- Mount Wilson From Graveyard
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on masonite
- Dimensions
- 40.6 x 50.8 cm
- Description
- The bottom third of the painting features a lake or body of water surrounded on both sides by trees. Rocks and pieces of stumps and wood are situated across the foreground. The background shows a very large mountain range green, blue and light blue grey in colour. The sky around the mountains and trees is sky blue with some clouds.
- Credit
- Gift of Wilf Johnson, Calgary, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- ShM.02.01
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In The Winter Night
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- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.01
- Description
- In the upper left corner of this painting there is an owl swooping down to the lower right to catch a rabbit. The white rabbit is in mid jump and is running toward the lower right corner. The scene takes place in the winter, therefore the ground is snow covered and the trees and shrubs that are on …
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- Title
- In The Winter Night
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 71.1 x 101.6 cm
- Description
- In the upper left corner of this painting there is an owl swooping down to the lower right to catch a rabbit. The white rabbit is in mid jump and is running toward the lower right corner. The scene takes place in the winter, therefore the ground is snow covered and the trees and shrubs that are on both sides of the animals have snow on thier branches. The overall colour of this painting is blue with some yellow in the owl's wing colour.
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.01
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Rankin Inlet, North West Territories
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- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.381
- Description
- The shapes that are recognizable depict a type of factory with a couple of buildings in the foreground on the right side of the center. There is some green grass on the left and the sky is clear white.
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- Title
- Rankin Inlet, North West Territories
- Date
- 1970
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 30.0 cm
- Description
- The shapes that are recognizable depict a type of factory with a couple of buildings in the foreground on the right side of the center. There is some green grass on the left and the sky is clear white.
- Subject
- architecture
- factory
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.381
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Eagles Over Mt. Rundle
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- Date
- 1979
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.15
- Description
- In the distance a mountain begins at a low area at the right of the image. This mountain gets larger as it proceeds to the left side of the image. In the top left corner the mountain peak is covered with snow. The foreground and the area between that and the mountain is solid trees of green, yellow…
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- Title
- Eagles Over Mt. Rundle
- Date
- 1979
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 51.0 cm
- Description
- In the distance a mountain begins at a low area at the right of the image. This mountain gets larger as it proceeds to the left side of the image. In the top left corner the mountain peak is covered with snow. The foreground and the area between that and the mountain is solid trees of green, yellow and orange. Two eagles soar over the tops of the trees, one from the left and one from the right. The sky in the background has a bit of blue with several white and grey clouds.
- Credit
- Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996
- Catalogue Number
- TiC.02.15
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- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- metal; skin; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0161
- Description
- A brown suede purse which hangs by two straps from a fabric belt. There is a small money holder with a metal frame that fits inside a pocket. The money holder fastens with two snaps. The lining of the purse is stamped with a patent note.
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- Title
- Purse
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- metal; skin; fibre
- Dimensions
- 24.0 x 1.0 x 14.5 cm
- Description
- A brown suede purse which hangs by two straps from a fabric belt. There is a small money holder with a metal frame that fits inside a pocket. The money holder fastens with two snaps. The lining of the purse is stamped with a patent note.
- Subject
- tourism
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0161
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- Date
- 1965 – 1970
- Material
- skin; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0241
- Description
- A grey leather, commercially tanned, handmade purse, distinguished by a pocket in the front which contains two small papoose figures with hand painted faces. The purse has two parallel flaps which flop over the top and tie, and a very long pair of shoulder straps. Part of the sewing is cotton, part…
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- Title
- Purse
- Date
- 1965 – 1970
- Material
- skin; fibre
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 8.5 x 30.0 cm
- Description
- A grey leather, commercially tanned, handmade purse, distinguished by a pocket in the front which contains two small papoose figures with hand painted faces. The purse has two parallel flaps which flop over the top and tie, and a very long pair of shoulder straps. Part of the sewing is cotton, part of it is sinew. The bag contains a piece of sinew.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- figure
- papoose
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0241
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New Moon-Southern Alberta
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- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- DgO.02.05
- Description
- This painting is mainly sky. Two riders on horses are seen in the left half of the painting. In front of them there is a brush area of green and brown. It looks as if they are riding in foothill / prairie area. Mountains are visible in the background. The sky is pink, yellow and blue. A crescent mo…
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- Title
- New Moon-Southern Alberta
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 54.3 x 75.0 cm
- Description
- This painting is mainly sky. Two riders on horses are seen in the left half of the painting. In front of them there is a brush area of green and brown. It looks as if they are riding in foothill / prairie area. Mountains are visible in the background. The sky is pink, yellow and blue. A crescent moon is in the sky.
- Credit
- Gift of Evelyn Carol Barrington, Invermere, 1999
- Catalogue Number
- DgO.02.05
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In the Afternoon
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- Date
- c. 1967
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- GeR.02.01
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- Title
- In the Afternoon
- Date
- c. 1967
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 39.3 x 49.7 cm
- Subject
- animal, horse
- figure, group, boys
- teepee
- tipi
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- GeR.02.01
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- Date
- 1971
- Material
- oil paint; board
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0077 a-f
- Description
- 6 oil paintings by Ferlan Lefthand on canvas board. a) Mountain range with river stretching from foreground to middle. Blue sky with long clouds above. b) 23.0 cm x 30.5 cm. Yellow grass in foreground with one rock and lone tree at right. River winding from left side to centre right. More trees in …
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- Title
- Oil Painting
- Date
- 1971
- Material
- oil paint; board
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- 6 oil paintings by Ferlan Lefthand on canvas board. a) Mountain range with river stretching from foreground to middle. Blue sky with long clouds above. b) 23.0 cm x 30.5 cm. Yellow grass in foreground with one rock and lone tree at right. River winding from left side to centre right. More trees in centre and background. c) 23.0 cm x 30.5 cm. River with small waterfall winds through flat meadow with yellow and green grass. Scattered conifers in meadow. Mountains in distance. Signed Feb 15, 1971 on back. d) 23.0 cm x 30.5 cm. River at left side and receding into distance with meadow at right side. Large grey blocky mountains in distance, e) 23.0 cm x 30.5 cm. Large meadow with scattered conifers. Body of water at right side. Grey mountains surrounded by trees in background. Signed February 27, 1971 at back. f) 23.0 cm x 30.5 cm. Wide blue river stretching from left side to right. 6 conifers lower left side in foreground. Large grey mountain surrounded by trees in background. Signed February 20, 1971.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- art
- painting
- landscape
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0077 a-f
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- Date
- 1968
- Material
- paint; board; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0079 a,b
- Description
- Two paintings signed by Harvey Baptiste. a) simple painting on canvas board. Large green field with brown cliffs in front and blue mountains and sky in background. b) very detailed parting of small lake with trees around it and mountain in background. Impressionist style. Painting is 19.5 cm x 23.5…
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- Title
- Oil Painting
- Date
- 1968
- Material
- paint; board; wood
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 40.0 cm
- Description
- Two paintings signed by Harvey Baptiste. a) simple painting on canvas board. Large green field with brown cliffs in front and blue mountains and sky in background. b) very detailed parting of small lake with trees around it and mountain in background. Impressionist style. Painting is 19.5 cm x 23.5 cm and is in a thick blond wood frame. Size with frame is: 32.0 cm x 37.0 cm. Writing on back reads: “THE FLOOTING CLOUDS HARVEY [“AUBREY” is crossed out] BAPTISTE, MAY 14, 68”
- Subject
- Whyte home
- art
- paintings
- landscapes
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0079 a,b
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- Date
- 1971
- Material
- paint; canvas
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0087
- Description
- Colourful abstract painting with bird-like shape in centre on peach coloured background. “HARVIE SCANIE 71” in lower right corner. Canvas stretched over wood frame. Piece of paper tucked into frame reads “C-9 SOLD to Mrs. CR White” [sic].
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- Title
- Oil Painting
- Date
- 1971
- Material
- paint; canvas
- Dimensions
- 60.5 x 40.0 cm
- Description
- Colourful abstract painting with bird-like shape in centre on peach coloured background. “HARVIE SCANIE 71” in lower right corner. Canvas stretched over wood frame. Piece of paper tucked into frame reads “C-9 SOLD to Mrs. CR White” [sic].
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0087
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- Date
- 1973
- Material
- paint; canvas; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0094
- Description
- Still life on canvas stretched over wood frame. Bookshelf with small statue; animal skill; red glass ball in netting; moveable wooden figures and pointed object on too of shelf. Books and binders stacked inside shelf. “D.Klein ‘73” in bottom right corner.
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- Title
- Oil Painting
- Date
- 1973
- Material
- paint; canvas; wood
- Dimensions
- 61.0 x 46.0 cm
- Description
- Still life on canvas stretched over wood frame. Bookshelf with small statue; animal skill; red glass ball in netting; moveable wooden figures and pointed object on too of shelf. Books and binders stacked inside shelf. “D.Klein ‘73” in bottom right corner.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- painting
- still life
- art
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.0094
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- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.05
- Description
- Oil painting of large lake with cliffs at right side and lake with trees and rocks by shore at right side. Low hills in background at far shore of lake. Swirled clouds in sky above. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner. On back: “Indian Name Sitting Wind Stoney Reserve Morley Alberta.”
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- Title
- By The Lake
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- Oil painting of large lake with cliffs at right side and lake with trees and rocks by shore at right side. Low hills in background at far shore of lake. Swirled clouds in sky above. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner. On back: “Indian Name Sitting Wind Stoney Reserve Morley Alberta.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.05
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Deep in the Woods
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- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.06
- Description
- Close up painting of conifer trees in varying shades of green. Green slope under trees at left and sliver of grey mountains seen in background through trees. Fluffy white clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” at lower right corner. On back “Deep in the Woods. Fr. Kaquitts (Sitting Wind) Indian N…
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- Title
- Deep in the Woods
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- Close up painting of conifer trees in varying shades of green. Green slope under trees at left and sliver of grey mountains seen in background through trees. Fluffy white clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” at lower right corner. On back “Deep in the Woods. Fr. Kaquitts (Sitting Wind) Indian Name. Sept 1971.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.06
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- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.07
- Description
- Blue green lake along lower edge. Large brown-grey mountains with strip of trees at lakeshore in background. Glacier at centre left with waterfall. Fluffy clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner. On back “Bow Lake. $25.00. July, 1969. Frank Kaquitts Morley Alberta. Indian nam…
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- Title
- Bow Lake
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- Blue green lake along lower edge. Large brown-grey mountains with strip of trees at lakeshore in background. Glacier at centre left with waterfall. Fluffy clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner. On back “Bow Lake. $25.00. July, 1969. Frank Kaquitts Morley Alberta. Indian name Sitting Wind.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.07
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In The Mountains
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- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.08
- Description
- Blue lake [Bow Lake?] spanning width of bottom fifth of canvas. Large rocky cliff rising out of lake at left. Lake continues behind this cliff with larger mountains with glacier at far shore. Clouds in blue-green Sky above. “SITTING WIND” at bottom right. On back: “In the Mountains. $25.00. July, 1…
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- Title
- In The Mountains
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 40.4 cm
- Description
- Blue lake [Bow Lake?] spanning width of bottom fifth of canvas. Large rocky cliff rising out of lake at left. Lake continues behind this cliff with larger mountains with glacier at far shore. Clouds in blue-green Sky above. “SITTING WIND” at bottom right. On back: “In the Mountains. $25.00. July, 1969. Frank Kaquitts Stoney Reserve Morley Alberta. Indian name Sitting Wind.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.08
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- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.09
- Description
- Painting of blue lake with trees on shore in middle of a green meadow. Rocks in foreground. Rolling hills and grey mountains in background. Gradient blue sky with white clouds. “SITTING WIND” lower right corner. On back: “By the Lake. F. Kaquitts (Sitting Wind) Indian name” Sept. 1971.”
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- Title
- By The Lake
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- Painting of blue lake with trees on shore in middle of a green meadow. Rocks in foreground. Rolling hills and grey mountains in background. Gradient blue sky with white clouds. “SITTING WIND” lower right corner. On back: “By the Lake. F. Kaquitts (Sitting Wind) Indian name” Sept. 1971.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.09
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- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.10
- Description
- Painting of a blue lake across width of canvas. Foreground has sandy shore with driftwood log at left and grasses and single tree at right. Two green mountains in background, separated from lake by strip of brush and trees. Fluffy white clouds with small patches of blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” at…
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- Title
- Lonely Place
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- Painting of a blue lake across width of canvas. Foreground has sandy shore with driftwood log at left and grasses and single tree at right. Two green mountains in background, separated from lake by strip of brush and trees. Fluffy white clouds with small patches of blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” at owner right corner. On back: “Frank Kaquitts Morley Alberta, Indian Res. Morley. Indian Name Sitting Wind” “Lonely place, July 1969”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.10
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- Date
- 1966
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.19
- Description
- Two figures in loincloths and two saddles horses (one brown, one black) in grassy meadow on the shore of a blue lake., Figure at left is standing next to black horse while brown horse is grazing on grass in centre next to seated figure at right. Rocky mountains and grassy slopes rise from far shore…
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- Title
- The Hunter
- Date
- 1966
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 59.0 x 74.5 cm
- Description
- Two figures in loincloths and two saddles horses (one brown, one black) in grassy meadow on the shore of a blue lake., Figure at left is standing next to black horse while brown horse is grazing on grass in centre next to seated figure at right. Rocky mountains and grassy slopes rise from far shore of lake. Thin clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” lower right corner. On back: “THE HUNTER Frank Kaquitts Aug 1966” Stamped on back of canvas supports is “ARTISTS MATERIALS GRUMBACHER NEW YORK”
- Subject
- landscape
- indigenous
- horses
- lake
- mountains
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.19
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