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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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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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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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Untitled

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Artist: Unknown

Date: c. 1880

Medium: drawing on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.15

Description: on a rather square piece of thin rice paper is a small shape approx. 5cm x 5cm. It sits to the centre right of the page and centre bottom. The shape in unidentifiable, and is made of of 2 types of brush strokes. The ‘body’ of the shape has thick brush strokes that move inward. the top of the sh…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled

Date: c. 1880

Medium: drawing on paper

Dimensions: 32.0 x 35.0 cm

Description: on a rather square piece of thin rice paper is a small shape approx. 5cm x 5cm. It sits to the centre right of the page and centre bottom. The shape in unidentifiable, and is made of of 2 types of brush strokes. The ‘body’ of the shape has thick brush strokes that move inward. the top of the shape is a thin solid line that sits on top of the shape. On top of this line is a small triangle. On the bottom left of the shape a small strait line juts out, and curves a little at the bottom

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.15

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter or Catharine Whyte

Date: 1920 – 1928

Medium: ink on cream watercolor paper

Catalogue Number: Wy?.03.068

Description: Drawing of a standing male model with a small detail sketch to the left of the figure drawing. Also on back side, small drawing of man’s face in top right corner in brown pencil.

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Artist: Peter or Catharine Whyte

Title: Untitled

Date: 1920 – 1928

Medium: ink on cream watercolor paper

Dimensions: 66.0 x 51.5 cm

Description: Drawing of a standing male model with a small detail sketch to the left of the figure drawing. Also on back side, small drawing of man’s face in top right corner in brown pencil.

Subject: figure; male

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

Catalogue Number: Wy?.03.068

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.304

Description: Small ink and graphite sketches of cartoon figures, feet, horses, faces, and hands.Insciption: [blc] Dec. 26th/ Canada/ Catharine; [brc in cursive]: Well I wonder [ ...]everything

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 27.5 x 21.5 cm

Description: Small ink and graphite sketches of cartoon figures, feet, horses, faces, and hands.Insciption: [blc] Dec. 26th/ Canada/ Catharine; [brc in cursive]: Well I wonder [ ...]everything

Subject: sketch; cartoon; animal; horse; figure; male; female

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.304

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.305

Description: Eighteen small cartoon sketches of faces and people. Trc is a sketch of a figure fishing, blc is a sketch of a figure on a bicycle.Inscribed:[tlc] Peter Whyte Banff Alberta Canada; Peter Whyte Banff, Alberta Canada; [trc] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 28.0 x 21.5 cm

Description: Eighteen small cartoon sketches of faces and people. Trc is a sketch of a figure fishing, blc is a sketch of a figure on a bicycle.Inscribed:[tlc] Peter Whyte Banff Alberta Canada; Peter Whyte Banff, Alberta Canada; [trc] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass

Subject: sketch; cartoon; figure; activity; fishing; cycling

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.305

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Waterfall #1 & Waterfall #2

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1994

Medium: ink on rice paper

Catalogue Number: SiR.03.04

Description: a)Stark lines leading from the top of the paper leading down to three squiggle lines at the bottom centre of work . The ink is black in colour. b)Black ink mounts at the top of the paper with a thin line flowing towards the bottom of the page. there are several specs of washed out ink spots.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: Waterfall #1 & Waterfall #2

Date: 1994

Medium: ink on rice paper

Description: a)Stark lines leading from the top of the paper leading down to three squiggle lines at the bottom centre of work . The ink is black in colour. b)Black ink mounts at the top of the paper with a thin line flowing towards the bottom of the page. there are several specs of washed out ink spots.

Subject: line; ink

Credit: Gift of Robert William Sinclair, Edmonton, 2010

Catalogue Number: SiR.03.04

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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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[Two Stoney Nakoda]

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: ink’ watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.967

Description: Drawing of two men standing beside a teepee, one smoking a pipe, as two figures on horses approach. “ Coloured in with watercolour. Left figure wears yellow, green and red striped coat (Hudson’s Bay blanket?), brimmed hat with red feather. Figure at right wears green brimmed hat and gray waistco…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: [Two Stoney Nakoda]

Date: 1929

Medium: ink’ watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 10.0 x 13.0 cm

Description: Drawing of two men standing beside a teepee, one smoking a pipe, as two figures on horses approach. “ Coloured in with watercolour. Left figure wears yellow, green and red striped coat (Hudson’s Bay blanket?), brimmed hat with red feather. Figure at right wears green brimmed hat and gray waistcoat and pants. Signed BRC. Framed in simple frame with red tape border. Reverse has sticker that reads “ARTISTIC PICTURE FRAMING CARSON PIRIE SCOTT & CO”

Subject: Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Dorothy V. Whyte, West Vancouver, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.967

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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.