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Rocky Mountains

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Artist: Lionel Lemoine FitzGerald (1890 – 1956, Canadian)

Date: 1925

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: FiL.03.01

Description: General colour: pencil on white. Line drawing of nuts. Some lines in the lower half are jagged to indicate trees. In the lower right are larger marks to indicate trees. In the upper left corner, the underside of clouds are outlined.

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Artist: Lionel Lemoine FitzGerald (1890 – 1956, Canadian)

Title: Rocky Mountains

Date: 1925

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.2 x 25.1 cm

Description: General colour: pencil on white. Line drawing of nuts. Some lines in the lower half are jagged to indicate trees. In the lower right are larger marks to indicate trees. In the upper left corner, the underside of clouds are outlined.

Subject: landscape; mountains

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: FiL.03.01

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Molar Pass

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.09

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Rocks in lower left corner sit on a beach which goes along the bottom edge to the right. The water is calm and blue. The far shore slopes up to tall rocky cliffs on the right side. On the left these same cliffs are seen in the distance. The sky is clouded with a bit of …

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Molar Pass

Date: 1929

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 34.2 x 41.8 cm

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Rocks in lower left corner sit on a beach which goes along the bottom edge to the right. The water is calm and blue. The far shore slopes up to tall rocky cliffs on the right side. On the left these same cliffs are seen in the distance. The sky is clouded with a bit of blue at the upper left of center edge.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.09

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

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Moraine Lake

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.01

Description: General colour: blue. The lake at the bottom is banked on the right by trees and on the left in the distance by a mountain face rising out of the water. Glacier is center with five peaks visible: The central one being left of center at the very top. Sky is yellow grey and mostly in the upper right …

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Title: Moraine Lake

Date: 1929

Dimensions: 40.3 x 51.9 cm

Description: General colour: blue. The lake at the bottom is banked on the right by trees and on the left in the distance by a mountain face rising out of the water. Glacier is center with five peaks visible: The central one being left of center at the very top. Sky is yellow grey and mostly in the upper right corner.

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.02

Description: General colour: blue. A foreground rock cliff goes up right side from the lower corner. Center mountain face has a jagged ridge. Clouds come down to the peak at the upper right of center, edge. In the lower left corner is a distant mountain. Blue sky with one cloud fills the upper left area. There …

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1929

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 55.0 x 43.5 cm

Description: General colour: blue. A foreground rock cliff goes up right side from the lower corner. Center mountain face has a jagged ridge. Clouds come down to the peak at the upper right of center, edge. In the lower left corner is a distant mountain. Blue sky with one cloud fills the upper left area. There is also a patch of blue in the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountains

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.02

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Shorty White-Grass A-PO-TO-YE-SEE

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Artist: Wilfred Langdon Kihn (1898 – 1957, American)

Date: 1924

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: KiW.03.02

Description: A very brightly coloured pastel drawing. The portrait of the man dominates almost the entire picture. A dark blue background behind his head, the face is drawin in good detail, black braids to the front. A red undershirt, yellow vest with white/red/purple diamond designs over shoulders. A necklace …

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Artist: Wilfred Langdon Kihn (1898 – 1957, American)

Title: Shorty White-Grass A-PO-TO-YE-SEE

Date: 1924

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 49.8 x 38.0 cm

Description: A very brightly coloured pastel drawing. The portrait of the man dominates almost the entire picture. A dark blue background behind his head, the face is drawin in good detail, black braids to the front. A red undershirt, yellow vest with white/red/purple diamond designs over shoulders. A necklace of black-tipped weasel tails and long, black horse tails. He is wearing a brown (buckskin ?) shirt. On the back of the heavy card backing: Shorty White-Grass A-PO-TO-YE-SEE Blackfeet Tribe of Browning Mont. in blue; in black: #54.

Subject: portrait, male; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986

Catalogue Number: KiW.03.02

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Moraine Lake

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1927

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.09

Description: The mountains dominate the picture, of blue/purple tones. Left foreground is a small lake with reflections of the mountains, immediate right foreground has yellow/brown tones, treed shoreline. Little sky showing, cloudy. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition publica…

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Moraine Lake

Date: 1927

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 42.2 x 57.0 cm

Description: The mountains dominate the picture, of blue/purple tones. Left foreground is a small lake with reflections of the mountains, immediate right foreground has yellow/brown tones, treed shoreline. Little sky showing, cloudy. Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition publication of the collection, either in whole or in part. Banff Centre catalogue numbers: 81 0334 A; 20687.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountains; lake

Credit: Gift of Banff Centre Brewster Donation, Banff, 1986

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.09

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Indigenous portrait given to Norman Luxton by W. Langdon Kihn

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of one signed copy of a portrait of an unidentified Indigenous man by artist W. Langdon Kihn. Portrait was gifted to Norman Luxton by Kihn in 1922.

Date Range: 1922

Reference Code: LUX / I / D1 / 17

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Drawing

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / D : Personal and professional

Sous-Fonds: LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / I / D1 : Personal and family life

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / D1 / 17

GMD: Drawing

Responsibility: Produced by W. Langdon Kihn

Date Range: 1922

Physical Description: 1 drawing : portrait, pencil and ink ; 29 x 37.5 cm

History / Biographical: Wilfred Langdon Kihn (1898-1957) was an American artist born in Brooklyn, New York. Kihn was best known for his illustrated portraits of American and Canadian Indigenous people, including members of the Blackfoot, Navajo, Pueblo and Tsimshian communities. The individuals in Kihn's portraits were most often depicted wearing traditional and ceremonial clothing rather than their typical clothes. Kihn's art career began in 1919 when he travelled to Montana and created some of his earliest portraits while visiting the Blackfeet Reservation. Throughout the 1920s, Kihn travelled extensively in Canada and the United States, creating portraits of individuals from a diverse range of Indigenous communities. Many of these portraits were put on display as part of a travelling exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1935, Kihn was commissioned by National Geographic to produce Indigenous portraits for publications; this ultimately led to a two-decade career with National Geographic.

Scope & Content: File consists of one signed copy of a portrait of an unidentified Indigenous man by artist W. Langdon Kihn. Portrait was gifted to Norman Luxton by Kihn in 1922.

Notes: Portrait is signed in the bottom left corner: "To "Norm" Luxton From his friend W. Langdon Kihn. 1922"

Name Access: Luxton, Norman; Kihn, W. Langdon

Subject Access: Portrait; First Nations; Indigenous Peoples; Art; Artist

Language: English

Category: Arts; First nations; Indigenous Peoples

Biographical Source Notes: https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/20/nyregion/art-indian-portraits-by-kihn-exhibited.html; https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/w-langdon-kihn-papers-7081

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Fish Houses

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Artist: Stanley Wingate Woodward (1890 – 1970, American)

Date: 1929

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WoS.03.02

Description: Robb on back of frame, so was possibly purchased by Catharine before her marriage (1930) or was purchased by Catharine's mother, Edith Morse Robb.

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Artist: Stanley Wingate Woodward (1890 – 1970, American)

Title: Fish Houses

Date: 1929

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 24.0 x 18.8 cm

Description: Robb on back of frame, so was possibly purchased by Catharine before her marriage (1930) or was purchased by Catharine's mother, Edith Morse Robb.

Subject: architecture, urban

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

Catalogue Number: WoS.03.02

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Portrait

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Artist: Phillip Leslie Hale (1865 – 1931, American)

Date: 1927

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HaP.03.01

Description: This drawing was purchased from the League of Boston Artists. Probably purchased by Mrs. Robb.

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Artist: Phillip Leslie Hale (1865 – 1931, American)

Title: Portrait

Date: 1927

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 31.5 x 23.5 cm

Description: This drawing was purchased from the League of Boston Artists. Probably purchased by Mrs. Robb.

Subject: portrait, female

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

Catalogue Number: HaP.03.01

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

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Larkspur and Peony

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Artist: Laura Coombs Hills (1859 – 1952, American)

Date: c. 1926

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: HiL.03.01

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Artist: Laura Coombs Hills (1859 – 1952, American)

Title: Larkspur and Peony

Date: c. 1926

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 58.6 x 46.0 cm

Subject: botanical

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

Catalogue Number: HiL.03.01

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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Untitled

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Artist: Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)

Date: c. 1927

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.02

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Artist: Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: c. 1927

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 27.7 x 40.0 cm

Subject: portrait; male; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1976

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.02

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Mapudre, A Mangbetou Woman

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Artist: Alexandre Iacovleff (1887 – 1938, French)

Date: 1925

Medium: oil pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: IaA.03.01

Description: A realistic rendering of a seated woman, wearing a loincloth, headdress and jewellry at her ankles, wrists and neck.

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Artist: Alexandre Iacovleff (1887 – 1938, French)

Title: Mapudre, A Mangbetou Woman

Date: 1925

Medium: oil pastel on paper

Dimensions: 73.5 x 23.0 cm

Description: A realistic rendering of a seated woman, wearing a loincloth, headdress and jewellry at her ankles, wrists and neck.

Subject: figure, female

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

Catalogue Number: IaA.03.01

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Pianist

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Artist: H. L. Stratton

Date: 1923

Medium: watercolour; ink on paper board

Catalogue Number: StH.05.01

Description: Almost blacked out pianist scene. Black background and piano, black suit on pianist. Only light areas on head and hands of pianist. Initialled .HLS.23. in pencil brc, pencilled on back Stratton 383W57 St..

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Artist: H. L. Stratton

Title: Pianist

Date: 1923

Medium: watercolour; ink on paper board

Dimensions: 20.5 x 19.7 cm

Description: Almost blacked out pianist scene. Black background and piano, black suit on pianist. Only light areas on head and hands of pianist. Initialled .HLS.23. in pencil brc, pencilled on back Stratton 383W57 St..

Subject: figure, male

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

Catalogue Number: StH.05.01

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Bighorn Ram head

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Date: c. 1925

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: RuC.03.09

Description: A finely detailed drawing of a ram's head, facing to the right of picture

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Title: Bighorn Ram head

Date: c. 1925

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 29.0 x 22.5 cm

Description: A finely detailed drawing of a ram's head, facing to the right of picture

Subject: animal, mountain sheep; ram

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: RuC.03.09

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Untitled

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Artist: Leonard Moore Davis (1864 – 1938, American)

Date: 1927

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: DaL.05.01

Description: A mountain peak dominates the centre, right side in shadow, tinges of pink top left of mountain. Mountain range left background. Left foreground and right foreground indicate green hillsides. Sky is light blue with a few patches of white top right.

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Artist: Leonard Moore Davis (1864 – 1938, American)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1927

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 8.2 x 11.3 cm

Description: A mountain peak dominates the centre, right side in shadow, tinges of pink top left of mountain. Mountain range left background. Left foreground and right foreground indicate green hillsides. Sky is light blue with a few patches of white top right.