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Bill Neish's Horse 1936

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: 1936

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.01

Description: General colour: brown on white. A horse saddled and carrying a rifle, saddle bags, and another case. Stands facing left. His ears are perked. Around the edges are notes by the artist regarding colouration.

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Bill Neish's Horse 1936

Date: 1936

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 28.0 x 38.0 cm

Description: General colour: brown on white. A horse saddled and carrying a rifle, saddle bags, and another case. Stands facing left. His ears are perked. Around the edges are notes by the artist regarding colouration.

Subject: animal; horse

Credit: Gift of Helen Collinson, Edmonton, 1974

Catalogue Number: GyH.03.01

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Fred Brewster 1957

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Artist: Edward Goodall (1909 – 1982, Canadian)

Date: 1957

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: GoE.03.02

Description: General colour: pencil on white. Head and upper torso of a man sitting in a chair. His left profile. He wears a beret on the back of his head. His shirt is plaid - sleves rolled up. He has a short mustache.

Artist: Edward Goodall (1909 – 1982, Canadian)

Title: Fred Brewster 1957

Date: 1957

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 24.4 x 19.3 cm

Description: General colour: pencil on white. Head and upper torso of a man sitting in a chair. His left profile. He wears a beret on the back of his head. His shirt is plaid - sleves rolled up. He has a short mustache.

Subject: portrait; male

Credit: Gift of Fred Brewster, Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: GoE.03.02

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Bow River Boat House 1952

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Artist: Cyril Harris ( – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1952

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: HaC.03.01

Description: General colour: brown on white. Three buildings - lake in front - trees behind - a flag pole with flag rises behind the house at the right. The house at the left has a chimney and is long and narrow.

Artist: Cyril Harris ( – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow River Boat House 1952

Date: 1952

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 15.1 x 21.5 cm

Description: General colour: brown on white. Three buildings - lake in front - trees behind - a flag pole with flag rises behind the house at the right. The house at the left has a chimney and is long and narrow.

Subject: landscape; lake; architecture, rural

Credit: Gift of Cyril Paris, Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: HaC.03.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Guy Wesley

Date: 1934

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WeG.03.01

Description: Colour: pencil on white. Flowers and grass fill the lower quarter. The Lake is above and in the background are two treed slopes which rise up on either side of a glacier at center. Clouds and sky fill the top quarter.

Artist: Guy Wesley

Title: Untitled

Date: 1934

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 14.8 x 22.3 cm

Description: Colour: pencil on white. Flowers and grass fill the lower quarter. The Lake is above and in the background are two treed slopes which rise up on either side of a glacier at center. Clouds and sky fill the top quarter.

Subject: landscape, mountain; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Gordon E Lock, 1968

Catalogue Number: WeG.03.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Guy Wesley

Date: 1936

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WeG.03.02

Description: Colour: pencil on white. Central image is a road from lower left corner to center up to mid center of the picture. The road shadowed by grass and trees on either side. Three mountains appear in the background.

Artist: Guy Wesley

Title: Untitled

Date: 1936

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 17.4 x 14.9 cm

Description: Colour: pencil on white. Central image is a road from lower left corner to center up to mid center of the picture. The road shadowed by grass and trees on either side. Three mountains appear in the background.

Subject: landscape, mountain; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Gordon E Lock, 1968

Catalogue Number: WeG.03.02

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Untitled

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Artist: Guy Wesley

Date: 1936

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WeG.03.03

Description: Colour: pencil on white. Central image is a waterfall with rocks on either side and mountains in the background at centre. Trees on an island come in from the left side. Shools of rock run horizontally along the bottom and here and there up to the falls.

Artist: Guy Wesley

Title: Untitled

Date: 1936

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 14.7 x 22.4 cm

Description: Colour: pencil on white. Central image is a waterfall with rocks on either side and mountains in the background at centre. Trees on an island come in from the left side. Shools of rock run horizontally along the bottom and here and there up to the falls.

Subject: landscape, mountain; river; waterfall; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Gordon E Lock, 1968

Catalogue Number: WeG.03.03

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Untitled

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Artist: Unknown

Date: prior to 1976

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.12

Description: Colour: black and brown on white. Head and shoulders of a man looking right. His hair is in long braids.

Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1976

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 61.0 x 48.0 cm

Description: Colour: black and brown on white. Head and shoulders of a man looking right. His hair is in long braids.

Subject: portrait; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1976

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.12

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Untitled

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Artist: Unknown

Date: prior to 1975

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.08

Description: Colour: black on white. The head and upper torso of a man looking to the right. He wears a large headdress of feathers, a buckskin jacket with a decorative pattern on the sleeve, and a medallion on his chest.

Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1975

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25.0 x 15.8 cm

Description: Colour: black on white. The head and upper torso of a man looking to the right. He wears a large headdress of feathers, a buckskin jacket with a decorative pattern on the sleeve, and a medallion on his chest.

Subject: portrait, male; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.08

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Indian Life 1952

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Artist: R. L. Hunter

Date: 1952

Medium: felt maker; ink; graphite crayon on paper

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.01

Description: Four figures sitting in the centre left foreground, group of people centre of drawing around a green clump of bush and multi-coloured banners flying on the air centre. Tents and teepees set around the central banner area.

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Artist: R. L. Hunter

Title: Indian Life 1952

Date: 1952

Medium: felt maker; ink; graphite crayon on paper

Dimensions: 45.0 x 56.0 cm

Description: Four figures sitting in the centre left foreground, group of people centre of drawing around a green clump of bush and multi-coloured banners flying on the air centre. Tents and teepees set around the central banner area.

Subject: figure; group; ceremonial

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

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.01

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John Brewster

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

Date: c. 1940

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.05

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of John Brewster as an elderly man. The head is drawn in good detail, full faced, shirt and tie evident, shoulders sketched in lightly. The face is round, hair over ears, otherwise bald, brown eyes, mustache, and amicable look.

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

Title: John Brewster

Date: c. 1940

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 35; 50.4 x 34.2; 38 cm

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of John Brewster as an elderly man. The head is drawn in good detail, full faced, shirt and tie evident, shoulders sketched in lightly. The face is round, hair over ears, otherwise bald, brown eyes, mustache, and amicable look.

Subject: portrait; male

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1983

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.05

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Jim Brewster of Banff

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

Date: 1935 – 1945

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.06

Description: A realistic rendering of a head and shoulder portrait of Jim Brewster; a three-quarter view; he has on a light brown hat, blue jacket, white shirt, red tie; streaks of colour in background.

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

Title: Jim Brewster of Banff

Date: 1935 – 1945

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 76.0 x 56.0 cm

Description: A realistic rendering of a head and shoulder portrait of Jim Brewster; a three-quarter view; he has on a light brown hat, blue jacket, white shirt, red tie; streaks of colour in background.

Subject: portrait; male; portrait: Jim Brewster

Credit: Gift of Lubov de Grandmaison, 1990

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.06

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Skyscape

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Artist: Dorothy R. Morton

Date: 1930

Medium: oil pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: MrD.03.01

Description: Skyscape with distant hills, orange and yellow dominant sky colours; signed brc D.R. Morton and dated Jan. 7, 1930. Artist poss. fellow student of Whytes.

Artist: Dorothy R. Morton

Title: Skyscape

Date: 1930

Medium: oil pastel on paper

Dimensions: 30.4 x 22.8 cm

Description: Skyscape with distant hills, orange and yellow dominant sky colours; signed brc D.R. Morton and dated Jan. 7, 1930. Artist poss. fellow student of Whytes.

Subject: landscape; skyscape

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

Catalogue Number: MrD.03.01

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Card Sketches

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Artist: John Davenall Turner (1900 – 1980, Canadian)

Date: 1951 – 1959

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: TuJ.03.01

Description: TuJ.03.01 (1951) roadside church, pen & ink, signed brc J.D. Turner Xmas card sent to the Whytes.

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Artist: John Davenall Turner (1900 – 1980, Canadian)

Title: Card Sketches

Date: 1951 – 1959

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 12.5 x 17.0 cm

Description: TuJ.03.01 (1951) roadside church, pen & ink, signed brc J.D. Turner Xmas card sent to the Whytes.

Subject: landscape; Christmas

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

Catalogue Number: TuJ.03.01

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Prairie Highway

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Artist: William Townsend (1909 – 1973, British)

Date: 1951 – 1972

Medium: oil pastel on paper (sketchbook)

Catalogue Number: ToW.03.01

Description: Blacktop highway covers bottom of picture going to center right, a yellow line runs in middle; yellow beside road, brown hills on either side, red on horizon, blue over the red, very sketchy.

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Artist: William Townsend (1909 – 1973, British)

Title: Prairie Highway

Date: 1951 – 1972

Medium: oil pastel on paper (sketchbook)

Dimensions: 22.8 x 30.5 cm

Description: Blacktop highway covers bottom of picture going to center right, a yellow line runs in middle; yellow beside road, brown hills on either side, red on horizon, blue over the red, very sketchy.

Subject: landscape, prairie

Credit: Purchased from Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary, 1984

Catalogue Number: ToW.03.01

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Fall in the Hills

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Artist: R. L. Hunter

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: felt pen; graphite; coloured graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.05

Description: The bottom third is a shallow blue river, 2 moose, male and female, are fording, up to their bellies, the hills in the background are autumn colours with some black to the right, the sky is clear blue

Artist: R. L. Hunter

Title: Fall in the Hills

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: felt pen; graphite; coloured graphite on paper

Dimensions: 45.0 x 60.2 cm

Description: The bottom third is a shallow blue river, 2 moose, male and female, are fording, up to their bellies, the hills in the background are autumn colours with some black to the right, the sky is clear blue

Subject: landscape; mountain; animals; animal; moose

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

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.05

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Hunter's Worries

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Artist: R. L. Hunter

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: felt pen; coloured graphite; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.04

Description: An man kneeling on a grassy knoll, with a brown and white pinto horse standing near, is looking down at a moose drinking in a river, the river runs in lower left corner, green grass and trees across foreground, grey cliffs along river and in background, big white clouds in blue sky

Artist: R. L. Hunter

Title: Hunter's Worries

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: felt pen; coloured graphite; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 45.0 x 60.3 cm

Description: An man kneeling on a grassy knoll, with a brown and white pinto horse standing near, is looking down at a moose drinking in a river, the river runs in lower left corner, green grass and trees across foreground, grey cliffs along river and in background, big white clouds in blue sky

Subject: landscape; mountain; people; activity; hunting; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.04

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Moose at water's edge

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Artist: R. L. Hunter

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: felt pen; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.03

Description: The foreground is a green grass and tree rimmed lake, a moose enters the lake near centre edge, grey mountains in background, light blue sky, large white cloud covers most of sky, edge of another cloud at right border

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Artist: R. L. Hunter

Title: Moose at water's edge

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: felt pen; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 42.5 cm

Description: The foreground is a green grass and tree rimmed lake, a moose enters the lake near centre edge, grey mountains in background, light blue sky, large white cloud covers most of sky, edge of another cloud at right border