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The Pack Horse

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1931

Medium: Medusa cement [self-setting]

Catalogue Number: BeC.06.02

Description: Colour: white. This is a bas-relief of a pack horse facing right standing in grass.Modelled ca. 1931 for Tex Woods, a packer and guide in Banff, for gable on house on Spray Avenue. Taken off house in 1977 by Ray Haimila. He had permission to cast 14 bronzes plus 1 Aluminum on the condition that he …

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: The Pack Horse

Date: 1931

Medium: Medusa cement [self-setting]

Dimensions: 36.0 x 46.0 cm

Description: Colour: white. This is a bas-relief of a pack horse facing right standing in grass.Modelled ca. 1931 for Tex Woods, a packer and guide in Banff, for gable on house on Spray Avenue. Taken off house in 1977 by Ray Haimila. He had permission to cast 14 bronzes plus 1 Aluminum on the condition that he present the master cast to the Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation. He presented 1 bronze to the Senior Citizen’s Home in Canmore; sold the others.

Subject: animal; horse

Credit: Gift of Raymond Haimila, Canmore, 1985

Catalogue Number: BeC.06.02

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Untitled [cowboy roping horse]

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: watercolour on pressed paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.05.01

Description: A cowboy wearing a blue shirt, brown vest, green neckerchief, orange/yellow chaps, a holster and gun, in bottom right of picture, has roped a horse on front legs, center left. The roped horse is falling forward. Six other horses are running in the background, a lot of dust in corral. The sky is yel…

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [cowboy roping horse]

Date: 1930

Medium: watercolour on pressed paper

Dimensions: 32.5 x 25.4 cm

Description: A cowboy wearing a blue shirt, brown vest, green neckerchief, orange/yellow chaps, a holster and gun, in bottom right of picture, has roped a horse on front legs, center left. The roped horse is falling forward. Six other horses are running in the background, a lot of dust in corral. The sky is yellow. The roped horse has a brand on left shoulder: lazy N over bar one.

Subject: figure, cowboy; animal, horse

Credit: Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983

Catalogue Number: BeC.05.01

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Lake Louise

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: c. 1935

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.04.28

Description: A summer rendering of Lake Louise, right foreground low bushes and evergreen tree.

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Lake Louise

Date: c. 1935

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 15.6 x 21.0 cm

Description: A summer rendering of Lake Louise, right foreground low bushes and evergreen tree.

Subject: landscape, Canadian Rockies; Lake Louise

Credit: Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983

Catalogue Number: BeC.04.28

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Untitled [Four Western Prints]

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: c. 1935

Medium: paper on ink

Catalogue Number: BeC.04.01

Description: BeC.04.01 - BeC.04.02 - BeC.04.03 - BeC.04.04 grouped as “Four Western Prints”BeC.04.01 is a drawing of Red River cart; signed “C.A. Beil” in plate blc and titled center bottom “Red River cart”, written on back “Dear Helen-Thanks for the card, you bet I’ll see you and very soon at that. Been wantin…

Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [Four Western Prints]

Date: c. 1935

Medium: paper on ink

Dimensions: 8.9 x 11.6 cm

Description: BeC.04.01 - BeC.04.02 - BeC.04.03 - BeC.04.04 grouped as “Four Western Prints”BeC.04.01 is a drawing of Red River cart; signed “C.A. Beil” in plate blc and titled center bottom “Red River cart”, written on back “Dear Helen-Thanks for the card, you bet I’ll see you and very soon at that. Been wanting to but didn’t know how to approach your camp. Love, Chas.” (signed by Charlie Beil)

Subject: transportation; cart

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

Catalogue Number: BeC.04.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.04

Description: A page full of sketches: a head of a ram, a ram's horn, a bear's head, a running bear, a pawing bear, a kneeling horse, 2 standing horses, one rear view,a bison and an elephant. A flat topped mountain is seen in background, centre right.

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 38.0 cm

Description: A page full of sketches: a head of a ram, a ram's horn, a bear's head, a running bear, a pawing bear, a kneeling horse, 2 standing horses, one rear view,a bison and an elephant. A flat topped mountain is seen in background, centre right.

Subject: landscape; mountain; animal, ram, bear, horse, buffalo, elephant

Credit: Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.04

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Untitled

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.03

Description: A page full of sketches - a saddled horse, a bison, a long horn and an elephant.

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 18.3 x 31.0 cm

Description: A page full of sketches - a saddled horse, a bison, a long horn and an elephant.

Subject: Animal, horse, cow, elephant

Credit: Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.03

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Untitled [Saddle Horse]

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.01

Description: A sketch of a saddled and bridled horse. The horse is facing to right of picture, his tail is tied up, he is standing in snow. A faint drawing of a log house is in centre background, a buffalo skull is over the door. A circle resembling a compass is in bottom right of picture. The reverse of this d…

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [Saddle Horse]

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 19.5 x 36.5 cm

Description: A sketch of a saddled and bridled horse. The horse is facing to right of picture, his tail is tied up, he is standing in snow. A faint drawing of a log house is in centre background, a buffalo skull is over the door. A circle resembling a compass is in bottom right of picture. The reverse of this drawing has a pen and ink sketch of an airplane, of WW I vintage, the pilot can be seen in the cockpit.

Subject: animal; horse; architecture; rural; log cabin

Credit: Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.01

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Untitled [horse]

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1936

Medium: plaster

Catalogue Number: BeC.06.04

Description: A blue /black horse makes it’s way down a green coloured rocky base. The horse’s back legs are bent.This is the only existing cast; there is no mould for it anymore, according to Mrs. Olive Beil. Charlie made it for the Whyte's.

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [horse]

Date: 1936

Medium: plaster

Dimensions: 21.8 x 9.5 x 24.8 cm

Description: A blue /black horse makes it’s way down a green coloured rocky base. The horse’s back legs are bent.This is the only existing cast; there is no mould for it anymore, according to Mrs. Olive Beil. Charlie made it for the Whyte's.

Subject: animal; horse

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

Catalogue Number: BeC.06.04

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Untitled

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.02

Description: Sketches of a man standing, a man running and a horse's fetlock and hoof on one side of fold; 4 sketches of horses on the other. The reverse on the sheet has two sketches of saddles, the other side of the fold has sketches of horses, one saddled (no bridle) one running, and the head and eye of anot…

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1930

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 18.3 x 30.9 cm

Description: Sketches of a man standing, a man running and a horse's fetlock and hoof on one side of fold; 4 sketches of horses on the other. The reverse on the sheet has two sketches of saddles, the other side of the fold has sketches of horses, one saddled (no bridle) one running, and the head and eye of another.

Subject: figure, man; animal, horse

Credit: Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983

Catalogue Number: BeC.03.02

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Untitled

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: c. 1935

Medium: paper on ink

Catalogue Number: BeC.04.05

Description: BeC.04.05 circa 1935 (Pack Train in Winter Wind), signed blc, Xmas card-engraving print. Xmas card received by Whytes from the Beils.

Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: c. 1935

Medium: paper on ink

Dimensions: 13.0 x 18.0 cm

Description: BeC.04.05 circa 1935 (Pack Train in Winter Wind), signed blc, Xmas card-engraving print. Xmas card received by Whytes from the Beils.

Subject: Christmas

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

Catalogue Number: BeC.04.05

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Untitled [Four Western Prints]

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Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Date: c. 1935

Medium: paper on ink

Catalogue Number: BeC.04.02

Description: BeC.04.01 - BeC.04.02 - BeC.04.03 - BeC.04.04 grouped as “Four Western Prints”BeC.04.02 is four oxen pulling covered wagon, signed brc;

Artist: Charles A. Beil (1894 – 1976, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [Four Western Prints]

Date: c. 1935

Medium: paper on ink

Dimensions: 8.9 x 11.6 cm

Description: BeC.04.01 - BeC.04.02 - BeC.04.03 - BeC.04.04 grouped as “Four Western Prints”BeC.04.02 is four oxen pulling covered wagon, signed brc;