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Mount Rundle from Canmore

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

Date: 1968

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: PlJ.03.02

Description: General colour: brown, black on grey, minimum of colour in sky. Lower half - mountains. Upper half - clouds and sky. Yellow, white, peach, sand colours on grey.

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

Title: Mount Rundle from Canmore

Date: 1968

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 49.7 x 65.9 cm

Description: General colour: brown, black on grey, minimum of colour in sky. Lower half - mountains. Upper half - clouds and sky. Yellow, white, peach, sand colours on grey.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Purchased from Joseph Francis Plaskett, 1972

Catalogue Number: PlJ.03.02

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Mt. Assiniboine

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

Date: n.d.

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.13

Description: The peak of Mt. Assiniboine rises up in the upper centre portion of the drawing. A glacier extends into the foreground from the mountain. Lake Magog is visible in the bottom left corner, while a hill with trees and snow on it, is visible in the bottom right corner.

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

Title: Mt. Assiniboine

Date: n.d.

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 42.0 x 53.3 cm

Description: The peak of Mt. Assiniboine rises up in the upper centre portion of the drawing. A glacier extends into the foreground from the mountain. Lake Magog is visible in the bottom left corner, while a hill with trees and snow on it, is visible in the bottom right corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Mt. Assiniboine; Lake Magog

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 2001

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.13

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Earl Gammon

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

Date: n.d.

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.09

Description: A portrait of a Earl Gammon with grey hair and slightly smiling. He is wearing a dark suit jacket which is only partially coloured in. He is also wearing a white shirt and red bow tie. He has a light green handkerchief in his pocket. The same light green colour surrounds his head. The man is visi…

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

Title: Earl Gammon

Date: n.d.

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 60.0 x 44.0 cm

Description: A portrait of a Earl Gammon with grey hair and slightly smiling. He is wearing a dark suit jacket which is only partially coloured in. He is also wearing a white shirt and red bow tie. He has a light green handkerchief in his pocket. The same light green colour surrounds his head. The man is visible from the chest up. The paper is yellowish.

Subject: portrait; male; Earl Gammon

Credit: Gift of Doris Gammon, Banff, 2000

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.09

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Untitled [Native Man]

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Date: 1949

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.01

Description: A portrait of an Indigenous man. His hair is grey and worn in two braids. He is wearing several strings of beads around his neck. His shirt or tunic is purple. A purple and orange checked blanket is wrapped around his shoulders. It is visible in both the bottom left corner and the bottom right…

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Title: Untitled [Native Man]

Date: 1949

Medium: pastel on paper

Description: A portrait of an Indigenous man. His hair is grey and worn in two braids. He is wearing several strings of beads around his neck. His shirt or tunic is purple. A purple and orange checked blanket is wrapped around his shoulders. It is visible in both the bottom left corner and the bottom right corner. Behind his shoulder on the left, a tipi is visible. Smoke is coming out of the top of it. Brown, craggy mountains are visible across the horizon. The sky moves up from yellow to green to blue. Clouds at the top of the image are orange.

Subject: portrait; male; Indigenous

Credit: Gift of Doris Gammon, Banff, 2000

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.01

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Chief John Hunter

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Date: 1949

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.02

Description: Portrait of Chief John Hunter, facing toward the right of the image. His hair is black and in two braids. Wisps of hair are loose and blowing in the wind. His face is wrinked, particularly around his mouth. His coat is white and he is wearing orange and green scarves. In the bottom right corne…

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Artist: Gerda Christoffersen ( – 2012, Canadian)

Title: Chief John Hunter

Date: 1949

Medium: pastel on paper

Description: Portrait of Chief John Hunter, facing toward the right of the image. His hair is black and in two braids. Wisps of hair are loose and blowing in the wind. His face is wrinked, particularly around his mouth. His coat is white and he is wearing orange and green scarves. In the bottom right corner, trees are visible. Above them are loosely drawn mountains. The sky is green (light and dark) and mauve.

Subject: portrait; male; Chief John Hunter

Credit: Gift of Doris Gammon, Banff, 2000

Catalogue Number: ChG.03.02

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Untitled [Sacred Owl]

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

Date: c. 1950

Medium: pastel on sandpaper

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.10

Description: Pastel portrait of a First Nations man who is facing toward the left of the piece. The man is resting his face on his hand and he is visible from only the neck up. On his head he is wearing a red kerchief. His hair is in two braids, the one on the left of his head is only slightly visible, the o…

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

Title: Untitled [Sacred Owl]

Date: c. 1950

Medium: pastel on sandpaper

Dimensions: 37.5 x 27.5 cm

Description: Pastel portrait of a First Nations man who is facing toward the left of the piece. The man is resting his face on his hand and he is visible from only the neck up. On his head he is wearing a red kerchief. His hair is in two braids, the one on the left of his head is only slightly visible, the one on the right is completely visible. He is wearing a blue scarf or tie around his neck. Identified by Rod Green at Masters Gallery as Sacred Owl.

Subject: portrait; male; Sacred Owl

Credit: Gift of Caroline Harris-Andrews, Kingston, 2002

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.10

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Untitled [Mountain Landscape]

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Artist: Maisie Wride

Date: n.d.

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: WrI.03.01

Description: Mountain landscape with tall pine trees in foreground on either side of drawing. Viewer is looking down at a blue-turquoise lake. A tall snow-capped mountain rises up beyond the lake. The dark slope of another mountain at the lake’s edge is visible on the left of the drawing.

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Artist: Maisie Wride

Title: Untitled [Mountain Landscape]

Date: n.d.

Medium: pastel on paper

Description: Mountain landscape with tall pine trees in foreground on either side of drawing. Viewer is looking down at a blue-turquoise lake. A tall snow-capped mountain rises up beyond the lake. The dark slope of another mountain at the lake’s edge is visible on the left of the drawing.

Subject: landscape; mountains; lake

Credit: Gift of Robert G. Short, Three Hills, 1999

Catalogue Number: WrI.03.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Bess Harris (1891 – 1969, Canadian)

Date: 1954

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: HrB.03.01

Description: An abstract pastel drawing of what looks to be the skull of a cow or bison. The skull is surrounded by loosely concentric rings.

Artist: Bess Harris (1891 – 1969, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1954

Medium: pastel on paper

Description: An abstract pastel drawing of what looks to be the skull of a cow or bison. The skull is surrounded by loosely concentric rings.

Subject: abstract; animal; bovine; skull

Credit: Gift of George K.K. (Tommy) Link, Tucson, USA, 1979

Catalogue Number: HrB.03.01

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Untitled (sample)

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Artist: Mary Garnham Andrews (1916 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: c. 1940

Catalogue Number: AnM.08.002 a

Description: A small rectangular sample piece with woven bands of various (red, black, yellow, blue, green etc.) colours.

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Artist: Mary Garnham Andrews (1916 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Untitled (sample)

Date: c. 1940

Dimensions: 15.0 x 10.0 cm

Description: A small rectangular sample piece with woven bands of various (red, black, yellow, blue, green etc.) colours.

Subject: crafts; weaving; Mary Andrews

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 1998

Catalogue Number: AnM.08.002 a

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Untitled (sample)

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Artist: Mary Garnham Andrews (1916 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1948

Medium: weaving

Catalogue Number: AnM.08.002 b

Description: A hand woven sample of bound weaving, humanesque style, in wool and rayon in colours of red, black, yellow, blue white and brown. There are rows of designs, most notably a row of girls and a row of boys.

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Artist: Mary Garnham Andrews (1916 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Untitled (sample)

Date: 1948

Medium: weaving

Dimensions: 38.0 x 29.5 cm

Description: A hand woven sample of bound weaving, humanesque style, in wool and rayon in colours of red, black, yellow, blue white and brown. There are rows of designs, most notably a row of girls and a row of boys.

Subject: crafts; weaving; Mary Andrews

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 1998

Catalogue Number: AnM.08.002 b

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Untitled (sample)

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Artist: Mary Garnham Andrews (1916 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: c. 1950

Catalogue Number: AnM.08.001 c

Description: A dark brown and off-white sample of crackle weave design.

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Artist: Mary Garnham Andrews (1916 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Untitled (sample)

Date: c. 1950

Dimensions: 34.0 x 29.5 cm

Description: A dark brown and off-white sample of crackle weave design.

Subject: crafts; weaving; Mary G. Andrews

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 1998

Catalogue Number: AnM.08.001 c

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Untitled (sample)

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Artist: Mary Garnham Andrews (1916 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: c. 1970

Medium: weaving

Catalogue Number: AnM.08.001 e

Description: A sample of weaving 2/8 with brown weft and beige/white warp separated by all beige/white (1.10cm) warp with a strand of royal blue running through and then beige/white warp and royal blue weft.

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Artist: Mary Garnham Andrews (1916 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Untitled (sample)

Date: c. 1970

Medium: weaving

Dimensions: 20.0 x 36.0 cm

Description: A sample of weaving 2/8 with brown weft and beige/white warp separated by all beige/white (1.10cm) warp with a strand of royal blue running through and then beige/white warp and royal blue weft.