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Back of Sawback

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.06

Description: General colour: brown, blue. A lake in the center surrounded by dry mountain cliffs. Central peak is right of center and the other is at the left side. The sky is dark in the upper right corner and clouds fill the upper left.

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

Title: Back of Sawback

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 18.5 x 25.3 cm

Description: General colour: brown, blue. A lake in the center surrounded by dry mountain cliffs. Central peak is right of center and the other is at the left side. The sky is dark in the upper right corner and clouds fill the upper left.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.06

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Bow Pass, Early Morning

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.04

Description: General colour: blue, brown on grey. Lower third is blue and brown rocks surrounding a pool of water lower center. Up the left side rises a warm brown rock face. The sky is the grey of the paper and fills the upper right half.

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

Title: Bow Pass, Early Morning

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 29.1 x 38.0 cm

Description: General colour: blue, brown on grey. Lower third is blue and brown rocks surrounding a pool of water lower center. Up the left side rises a warm brown rock face. The sky is the grey of the paper and fills the upper right half.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.04

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Cathedral Mountain

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.23

Description: General colour: grey, blue, black. Dead burnt trees stand on slightly regrown earth at the bottom of the picture. Behind is a mountain with snow slopes and blue cliffs. The upper two thrids is rain clouds. Rain falls center and at the right in the distance.

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 34.2 x 41.8 cm

Description: General colour: grey, blue, black. Dead burnt trees stand on slightly regrown earth at the bottom of the picture. Behind is a mountain with snow slopes and blue cliffs. The upper two thrids is rain clouds. Rain falls center and at the right in the distance.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.23

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Consolation Valley

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.01

Description: General colour: blue, green, brown. Grass and a clump of fur trees are in the lower right area. Water is in the lower left area. Trees on the far shore at the left side. The blue mountain sweeps up from the water at center reaching the upper edge and clouds in the blue sky.

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

Title: Consolation Valley

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 48.2 x 37.3 cm

Description: General colour: blue, green, brown. Grass and a clump of fur trees are in the lower right area. Water is in the lower left area. Trees on the far shore at the left side. The blue mountain sweeps up from the water at center reaching the upper edge and clouds in the blue sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of W. (Mrs.) B. Milne, Nanaimo, 1969

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.01

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Ghost Lake, Alberta

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.12

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Dry lake fills lower right area. Brown shore comes down from the left side. Across the middle are blue mountains. The sky is blue with pale clouds and fill the upper third.

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

Title: Ghost Lake, Alberta

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.3 x 32.9 cm

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Dry lake fills lower right area. Brown shore comes down from the left side. Across the middle are blue mountains. The sky is blue with pale clouds and fill the upper third.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.12

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The Hump, Bow Glacier and Bow Lake

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.14

Description: General colour: brown, blue. As the land across the bottom reaches the lake there are a few short trees mostly on the left. The far shore, one quarter way up has trees in the center and dry rock banks on either side rising up to mountains and glacier left and right of the center peak. The blue sky …

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

Title: The Hump, Bow Glacier and Bow Lake

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 27.9 x 38.0 cm

Description: General colour: brown, blue. As the land across the bottom reaches the lake there are a few short trees mostly on the left. The far shore, one quarter way up has trees in the center and dry rock banks on either side rising up to mountains and glacier left and right of the center peak. The blue sky fills the upper half.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.14

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Near Nanton, Alberta

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.15

Description: General colour: grey, brown, blue. Cattle munch grass along the lower edge. There is a building on the right side, a few trees to its left. Way in the distance are blue mountains. The upper three quarters is clouds.

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

Title: Near Nanton, Alberta

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 18.1 x 23.8 cm

Description: General colour: grey, brown, blue. Cattle munch grass along the lower edge. There is a building on the right side, a few trees to its left. Way in the distance are blue mountains. The upper three quarters is clouds.

Subject: landscape; rural; animal

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.15

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Goodsir Plateau

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

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.02

Description: An overall light brown tones; dark blue river in right foreground and lower centre; the mountains dominate the centre of the picture, some snow, cloudy sky.Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition or publication of the collection, either in whole or in part. Banff Cent…

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

Title: Goodsir Plateau

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 63.5 x 57.1 cm

Description: An overall light brown tones; dark blue river in right foreground and lower centre; the mountains dominate the centre of the picture, some snow, cloudy sky.Credit both The Banff Centre and Mrs. J. I. Brewster in any exhibition or publication of the collection, either in whole or in part. Banff Centre catalogue numbers: 81 0335 A; 20688

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.02

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Northern Lights

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Artist: Graham Noble Norwell (1901 – 1967, Canadian)

Date: c. 1945

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: NoG.05.02

Artist: Graham Noble Norwell (1901 – 1967, Canadian)

Title: Northern Lights

Date: c. 1945

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 16.6;26 x 20.1;31 cm

Subject: landscape; architecture, rural; sjyscape

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

Catalogue Number: NoG.05.02

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Winter Scene

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Artist: Graham Noble Norwell (1901 – 1967, Canadian)

Date: 1945

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: NoG.05.01

Description: Catharine Whyte purchased this painting in Montreal, probably between 1945 and 1950.

Artist: Graham Noble Norwell (1901 – 1967, Canadian)

Title: Winter Scene

Date: 1945

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 18.4;22.2 x 25; 30.5 cm

Description: Catharine Whyte purchased this painting in Montreal, probably between 1945 and 1950.

Subject: landscape; mountain; winter

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

Catalogue Number: NoG.05.01

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On Forty Mile Creek, Banff

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Date: 1946

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ShM.05.03

Description: Two large Douglas Fir trees dominate the right side of picture of a forest; a stream runs the full length of bottom of picture. Only the bottom half of the two trees is shown, some stumps and forest. The entire picture is in various tones of green.

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Title: On Forty Mile Creek, Banff

Date: 1946

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 27.5 x 36.5 cm

Description: Two large Douglas Fir trees dominate the right side of picture of a forest; a stream runs the full length of bottom of picture. Only the bottom half of the two trees is shown, some stumps and forest. The entire picture is in various tones of green.

Subject: landscape; forest

Credit: Purchased from Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 1983

Catalogue Number: ShM.05.03

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Maligne Canyon

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Date: 1946

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ShM.05.04

Description: A blue river with white highlights runs from the centre to the bottom right of the picture, purple cliffs to the right centre and a rocky bank to the left centre. Trees on both sides of river, a high bank with trees is in background with a blue sky.

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Title: Maligne Canyon

Date: 1946

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.5 x 35.5 cm

Description: A blue river with white highlights runs from the centre to the bottom right of the picture, purple cliffs to the right centre and a rocky bank to the left centre. Trees on both sides of river, a high bank with trees is in background with a blue sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountains; river

Credit: Gift of Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 1983

Catalogue Number: ShM.05.04

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The Gelande Jump

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Artist: Robert J. McGuinness (1886 – 1961, Canadian)

Date: 1948 – 1949

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: McR.05.04

Description: A mountain side covered with snow covers all but the top left corner, a few rocks show through the snow, centered is a man on skis, he is wearing a yellow shirt, grey pants and hat, he is facing to the left, bent over his skis with his ski poles straight down behind him, image has a pencil drawn b…

Artist: Robert J. McGuinness (1886 – 1961, Canadian)

Title: The Gelande Jump

Date: 1948 – 1949

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 36.0 x 28.3 cm

Description: A mountain side covered with snow covers all but the top left corner, a few rocks show through the snow, centered is a man on skis, he is wearing a yellow shirt, grey pants and hat, he is facing to the left, bent over his skis with his ski poles straight down behind him, image has a pencil drawn border