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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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Cathedral Mountain

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Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.01

Description: Group of trees on the lower right in front of distant mountains.

Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Description: Group of trees on the lower right in front of distant mountains.

Subject: landscape, mountains

Credit: Gift of Iva (Mrs. Len) Smith, 1976

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.01

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Cathedral Mountain In Yoho

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Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.02

Description: General colour: black on white. In the foreground is a lake and ten trees on the opposite shore. Beyond is a treed slope up to rocky peaks. Behind is cloudy sky.

Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Title: Cathedral Mountain In Yoho

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Description: General colour: black on white. In the foreground is a lake and ten trees on the opposite shore. Beyond is a treed slope up to rocky peaks. Behind is cloudy sky.

Subject: landscape; mountains; Cathedral mOuntain

Credit: Gift of Iva (Mrs. Len) Smith, 1976

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.02

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Of Mildred to Mildred

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Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Date: 1928

Medium: oil pastel; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.03

Description: Right profile of a young woman. Dark shading behind her face.

Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Title: Of Mildred to Mildred

Date: 1928

Medium: oil pastel; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Description: Right profile of a young woman. Dark shading behind her face.

Subject: portrait; female

Credit: Gift of Iva (Mrs. Len) Smith, 1976

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.03

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Boy's portrait

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

Date: 1922

Medium: graphite on cardboard

Catalogue Number: KiW.03.01

Description: General colour: pencil on yellow. Head of a boy who is looking out. Wide collar on his shirt and one button at the top.

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

Title: Boy's portrait

Date: 1922

Medium: graphite on cardboard

Dimensions: 29.0 x 35.0 cm

Description: General colour: pencil on yellow. Head of a boy who is looking out. Wide collar on his shirt and one button at the top.

Subject: portrait; child

Credit: Gift of Frank Wellman, 1974

Catalogue Number: KiW.03.01

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Bow Lake

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

Date: 1963

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.06

Description: General colour: pencil on white. Two points of land come in from left and right respectively with water in between and behind. The far shore starts quarter way up and becomes a mountain left of enter and right banks up each side. Sketchy clouds appear to be raining left and right.

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

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1963

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 32.3 x 40.1 cm

Description: General colour: pencil on white. Two points of land come in from left and right respectively with water in between and behind. The far shore starts quarter way up and becomes a mountain left of enter and right banks up each side. Sketchy clouds appear to be raining left and right.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountains; lake

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.06

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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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Blood Indian Chief

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Artist: Reinhold H. Palenske (1884 – 1955, American)

Date: 1927

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: PeR.03.01

Description: General colour: white, black, orange. The man's white fur hat fills upper third of the drawing. His eyes look out. He wears an orange tie. There is some purple colour on his left lapel. The title is in orange in the lower left corner. In the lower right corner, the words are in black.

Artist: Reinhold H. Palenske (1884 – 1955, American)

Title: Blood Indian Chief

Date: 1927

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Dimensions: 29.2 x 45.1 cm

Description: General colour: white, black, orange. The man's white fur hat fills upper third of the drawing. His eyes look out. He wears an orange tie. There is some purple colour on his left lapel. The title is in orange in the lower left corner. In the lower right corner, the words are in black.

Subject: portrait; male

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: PeR.03.01

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Foot of Three Sisters

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Artist: Joseph Francis Plaskett (1918 – 2014, Canadian)

Date: 1968

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: PlJ.03.01

Description: General colour: black, blue, brown on grey paper. Mountains go into the distance from right to left diagonally upper to lower area. Sky is dark blue with flames of yellow on grey.

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Artist: Joseph Francis Plaskett (1918 – 2014, Canadian)

Title: Foot of Three Sisters

Date: 1968

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 49.7 x 65.9 cm

Description: General colour: black, blue, brown on grey paper. Mountains go into the distance from right to left diagonally upper to lower area. Sky is dark blue with flames of yellow on grey.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Purchased from Joseph Francis Plaskett, 1972

Catalogue Number: PlJ.03.01

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The First Step Beyond

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.03.02

Description: Colour: black on white. A cowering figure at centre is surrounded by three hands at the right (one hand becoming a face) and a large face and two black figures to the left and above.Au verso: THE FIRST STEP BEYOND

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: The First Step Beyond

Date: 1969

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 30.8 x 45.6 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. A cowering figure at centre is surrounded by three hands at the right (one hand becoming a face) and a large face and two black figures to the left and above.Au verso: THE FIRST STEP BEYOND

Subject: figure, male; mythological

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

Catalogue Number: StS.03.02

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Just Playing

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.03.04

Description: Colour: black on white. At viewer’s left and forefront, a man,is facing left and sitting on an oil drum. He is is wearing a cap, shirt, jeans and cowboy boots and is playing a guitar. Behind the man and toward viewer’s right is a telephone pole with a figure of a man hanging from a rope. In the bac…

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Just Playing

Date: 1969

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.5 x 37.0 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. At viewer’s left and forefront, a man,is facing left and sitting on an oil drum. He is is wearing a cap, shirt, jeans and cowboy boots and is playing a guitar. Behind the man and toward viewer’s right is a telephone pole with a figure of a man hanging from a rope. In the background are a gentle range of hills.Au verso printed in pencil “JUST PLAYING”, rhtc “115” encircled, blhc “20” encircled with “25” on top

Subject: figures, male; Indigenous

Credit: Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: StS.03.04

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White Buffalo

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.03.07

Description: Colour: black on white. In the centre is a seated black figure with white hair and one hand visble. To the viewer’s right stands an aged figure wearing a white cloak/blanket and leaning on a cane. In the distance towards the viewer’s lower left are eleven black bison and one white.Au verso: tlhc en…

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: White Buffalo

Date: 1969

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 35.3 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. In the centre is a seated black figure with white hair and one hand visble. To the viewer’s right stands an aged figure wearing a white cloak/blanket and leaning on a cane. In the distance towards the viewer’s lower left are eleven black bison and one white.Au verso: tlhc encircled “90” vestige of former drawing visible

Subject: figure, group; animal, buffalo

Credit: Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: StS.03.07

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Wapiti print 1968

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Artist: Betty Trimmer

Date: 1968

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: TrB.03.01

Description: Black markings on a white ground.

Artist: Betty Trimmer

Title: Wapiti print 1968

Date: 1968

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 41.7 x 68.7 cm

Description: Black markings on a white ground.

Subject: abstract; animal, elk

Credit: Gift of Whites Grocery, Banff, 1969

Catalogue Number: TrB.03.01

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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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Figure Studies

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Artist: Edmee Moore (1908 – 1971, Canadian)

Date: 1924 – 1932

Medium: graphite; on paper

Catalogue Number: MoE.03.099

Description: A single figure study of partially reclined figure with left leg bent and right leg extended, with arms supporting behind the back and head tilted back.

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Artist: Edmee Moore (1908 – 1971, Canadian)

Title: Figure Studies

Date: 1924 – 1932

Medium: graphite; on paper

Dimensions: 22.9 x 30.4 cm

Description: A single figure study of partially reclined figure with left leg bent and right leg extended, with arms supporting behind the back and head tilted back.

Subject: figure; still life

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: MoE.03.099

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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.