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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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York Boat on Lake Winnipeg

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1930

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.17

Description: Colour: green grey, pink, brown with blue and orange. Central image is the left profile of a boat coming through waves. Its sail is only partly in view. There are eight figures in the boat - one with a feather headdress. In the lower right corner is a sea gull-wings spread. On the horizon at the ri…

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: York Boat on Lake Winnipeg

Date: 1930

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 25.4 x 35.1 cm

Description: Colour: green grey, pink, brown with blue and orange. Central image is the left profile of a boat coming through waves. Its sail is only partly in view. There are eight figures in the boat - one with a feather headdress. In the lower right corner is a sea gull-wings spread. On the horizon at the right side is a rock island with a couple of wind blown trees on it. The sky above is yellow with dark grey at the upper edge.

Subject: landscape; lake; figure, group; boat

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

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.17

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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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High Life

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1882

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.03.01

Description: A drawing (copy) of a dog sitting on the floor, back view with head turned to the left; he is sitting in front of a table with various things on top of it; drawn curtains in background, opened a little at the left, iron faceted window panes through which can be seen a tower with a flag. Hand writte…

Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: High Life

Date: 1882

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 48.0;61.2 x 36.2;50.7 cm

Description: A drawing (copy) of a dog sitting on the floor, back view with head turned to the left; he is sitting in front of a table with various things on top of it; drawn curtains in background, opened a little at the left, iron faceted window panes through which can be seen a tower with a flag. Hand written on the brown paper backing of the framed picture: Crayon Copy Mary Sharples 1880.

Subject: still life; animal, dog

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: ScM.03.01

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Warren's Landing, Lake Winnipeg

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1931

Medium: colour woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.31

Description: This print is a duplicate of PhW.04.26.

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Warren's Landing, Lake Winnipeg

Date: 1931

Medium: colour woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 16.5 x 24.0 cm

Description: This print is a duplicate of PhW.04.26.

Subject: landscape; lake

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

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.31

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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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Lily

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1940

Medium: engraving, wood on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.55

Description: A mostly black picture, with outline of lily pads floating in the water, one pad is blossoming.

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Lily

Date: 1935 – 1940

Medium: engraving, wood on paper

Dimensions: 7.5 x 13.4 cm

Description: A mostly black picture, with outline of lily pads floating in the water, one pad is blossoming.

Subject: botanical, water lilies

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.55

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Stockton, Manitoba

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1940

Medium: engraving, wood on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.56

Description: An old-time street scene runs from bottom right to centre left. Right side is in shadow. 2 trees in front of building. Further down the street a man is sitting on a scaffold painting the side of the building. 2 figures in front of the building.

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Stockton, Manitoba

Date: 1933 – 1940

Medium: engraving, wood on paper

Dimensions: 10.7 x 19.2 cm

Description: An old-time street scene runs from bottom right to centre left. Right side is in shadow. 2 trees in front of building. Further down the street a man is sitting on a scaffold painting the side of the building. 2 figures in front of the building.

Subject: architecture, urban

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.56

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Waterfall, Lake of the Woods

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1940

Medium: engraving, wood on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.57

Description: A very black picture with the waterfall highlighted centre top of the picture. The banks on both sides of the waterfall are finely drawn in but subdued, the foreground is black with streaks of waterfall reflection.

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Waterfall, Lake of the Woods

Date: 1935 – 1940

Medium: engraving, wood on paper

Dimensions: 11.7 x 20.1 cm

Description: A very black picture with the waterfall highlighted centre top of the picture. The banks on both sides of the waterfall are finely drawn in but subdued, the foreground is black with streaks of waterfall reflection.

Subject: landscape, waterfall

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.57

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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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Sleigh and Village

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Artist: Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American)

Date: 1936 – 1937

Medium: wood cut on paper

Catalogue Number: HbA.04.01

Description: Sleigh approaching village, signed brc A.T. Hibbard. Printed on pale turquoise paper with dark blue ink and later hand-coloured, was an Xmas card sent by artist to the Whytes.

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Artist: Aldro T. Hibbard (1886 – 1972, American)

Title: Sleigh and Village

Date: 1936 – 1937

Medium: wood cut on paper

Dimensions: 11.9 x 15.7 cm

Description: Sleigh approaching village, signed brc A.T. Hibbard. Printed on pale turquoise paper with dark blue ink and later hand-coloured, was an Xmas card sent by artist to the Whytes.

Subject: landscape, mountains; architecture, urban; animal, horse; winter; Christmas

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

Catalogue Number: HbA.04.01

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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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Fishing Boats, Gimli Dock

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1937

Medium: wood cut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.32

Description: Docked boat, man standing on dock, dog in foreground on shoreline;

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Fishing Boats, Gimli Dock

Date: 1937

Medium: wood cut on paper

Dimensions: 12.3 x 18.3 cm

Description: Docked boat, man standing on dock, dog in foreground on shoreline;

Subject: landscape; lake; figure, male; animal, dog; boat

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

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.32

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Waterfall, Lake of the Woods

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: wood engraving on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.40

Description: Rocks, waterfall, lake with strong, black areas. Signed W.J. Phillips brc. Was mailed inside white Christmas Greetings card fold from the Phillips. This print is #203 in R. Boulet Catalogue, this print is from the later issuing, 1957.

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Waterfall, Lake of the Woods

Date: 1934

Medium: wood engraving on paper

Dimensions: 12.4 x 20.0 cm

Description: Rocks, waterfall, lake with strong, black areas. Signed W.J. Phillips brc. Was mailed inside white Christmas Greetings card fold from the Phillips. This print is #203 in R. Boulet Catalogue, this print is from the later issuing, 1957.

Subject: landscape; lake; waterfall; Christmas

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

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.40

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Engineer's House and South Wall (Lower Fort Garry)

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1931

Medium: wood engraving on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.42

Description: Two houses in landscape or farm setting. Signed W.J. Phillips brc. Was mailed in white Christmas Greeting card from the Phillips and is glued at its top edge to inside of card. Xmas greeting in 1931 and again in 1951, this copy is from later date. This print is #179 in R. Boulet Catalogue.

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Engineer's House and South Wall (Lower Fort Garry)

Date: 1931

Medium: wood engraving on paper

Dimensions: 9.6 x 13.4 cm

Description: Two houses in landscape or farm setting. Signed W.J. Phillips brc. Was mailed in white Christmas Greeting card from the Phillips and is glued at its top edge to inside of card. Xmas greeting in 1931 and again in 1951, this copy is from later date. This print is #179 in R. Boulet Catalogue.