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By The Lake

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

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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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

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.”

Subject: lake; nature; landscape; mountains

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.05

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Bow Lake

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

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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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

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.”

Subject: Bow Lake; lake; mountains; glacier

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.07

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By The Lake

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

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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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

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.”

Subject: lake; mountains; landscape

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.09

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Lonely Place

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

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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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

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”

Subject: lake; mountains; landscape; nature

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.10

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Oil Painting

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.12

Description: Large lake surrounded by low brown and green hills. Figure on horseback silhouetted on near bank. Lake and sky both yellow. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner.

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: Oil Painting

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 46.0 x 61.0 cm

Description: Large lake surrounded by low brown and green hills. Figure on horseback silhouetted on near bank. Lake and sky both yellow. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner.

Subject: landscape; sunset; nature; mountains; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.12

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Oil Painting

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.14

Description: Mountain scene. Path winds through trees and flowers on left side and across lower edge. blue-green lake behind with mountains rising sharply from its banks. Blue amend white sky above. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner.

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: Oil Painting

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 61.0 x 91.0 cm

Description: Mountain scene. Path winds through trees and flowers on left side and across lower edge. blue-green lake behind with mountains rising sharply from its banks. Blue amend white sky above. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner.

Subject: mountains; lake; nature; landscape

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.14

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Oil Painting

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.15

Description: Large body of water with beach in foreground. Waves breaking on rocks at left. Driftwood and two figures with canoe centre and centre left on shore. Rocky outcrop coming out of water at right side. Distant mountains in background. Dramatic thunderhead clouds with tiny sliver of blue sky above. “SIT…

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: Oil Painting

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 61.0 x 91.0 cm

Description: Large body of water with beach in foreground. Waves breaking on rocks at left. Driftwood and two figures with canoe centre and centre left on shore. Rocky outcrop coming out of water at right side. Distant mountains in background. Dramatic thunderhead clouds with tiny sliver of blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” lower right corner.

Subject: lake; beach; mountains; landscape

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.15

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Oil Painting

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.17

Description: Blue lake with grassy foreground with 3 conifers and two deciduous trees. Banks on each side reach into middle of lake. Far shore has rolling green hills and distant mountains. Blue sky with wispy yellow and white clouds “SITTING WIND” at lower right corner. Blond wood frame joined at corners.

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: Oil Painting

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 42.5 x 57.5 cm

Description: Blue lake with grassy foreground with 3 conifers and two deciduous trees. Banks on each side reach into middle of lake. Far shore has rolling green hills and distant mountains. Blue sky with wispy yellow and white clouds “SITTING WIND” at lower right corner. Blond wood frame joined at corners.

Subject: mountains; lake; landsape; nature

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.17

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The Hunter

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

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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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

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”