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Hecate Strait From Sandspit

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.08

Description: General colour: brown, green, blue. Foreground beach is covered with logs and continues up the right side to a point with fall evergreens on it. The green water fills the central area. Distant blue hills come out at the right from behind the trees. The sky is grey blue.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Hecate Strait From Sandspit

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 33.3 x 46.9 cm

Description: General colour: brown, green, blue. Foreground beach is covered with logs and continues up the right side to a point with fall evergreens on it. The green water fills the central area. Distant blue hills come out at the right from behind the trees. The sky is grey blue.

Subject: landscape; sea; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.08

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Untitled

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1961

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.15

Description: General colour: green, blue. In the lower half are five figures to the left and a stand of teepee poles to the right. Across the middle are five buildings. Behind them are trees, mountains in the distance and blue grey sky above. Signed lr: “E. Lamarque 1961”

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1961

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 35.5 x 50.1 cm

Description: General colour: green, blue. In the lower half are five figures to the left and a stand of teepee poles to the right. Across the middle are five buildings. Behind them are trees, mountains in the distance and blue grey sky above. Signed lr: “E. Lamarque 1961”

Subject: landscape; mountains; architecture, rural; figure, group; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.15

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By The Lake

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.05

Description: Oil painting of large lake with cliffs at right side and lake with trees and rocks by shore at right side. Low hills in background at far shore of lake. Swirled clouds in sky above. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner. On back: “Indian Name Sitting Wind Stoney Reserve Morley Alberta.”

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: By The Lake

Date: 1969

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 30.5 x 40.5 cm

Description: Oil painting of large lake with cliffs at right side and lake with trees and rocks by shore at right side. Low hills in background at far shore of lake. Swirled clouds in sky above. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner. On back: “Indian Name Sitting Wind Stoney Reserve Morley Alberta.”

Subject: lake; nature; landscape; mountains

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.05

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Lonely Place

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.10

Description: Painting of a blue lake across width of canvas. Foreground has sandy shore with driftwood log at left and grasses and single tree at right. Two green mountains in background, separated from lake by strip of brush and trees. Fluffy white clouds with small patches of blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” at…

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: Lonely Place

Date: 1969

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 30.5 x 40.5 cm

Description: Painting of a blue lake across width of canvas. Foreground has sandy shore with driftwood log at left and grasses and single tree at right. Two green mountains in background, separated from lake by strip of brush and trees. Fluffy white clouds with small patches of blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” at owner right corner. On back: “Frank Kaquitts Morley Alberta, Indian Res. Morley. Indian Name Sitting Wind” “Lonely place, July 1969”

Subject: lake; mountains; landscape; nature

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.10

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The Hunter

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Date: 1966

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.19

Description: Two figures in loincloths and two saddles horses (one brown, one black) in grassy meadow on the shore of a blue lake., Figure at left is standing next to black horse while brown horse is grazing on grass in centre next to seated figure at right. Rocky mountains and grassy slopes rise from far shore…

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Artist: Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)

Title: The Hunter

Date: 1966

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 59.0 x 74.5 cm

Description: Two figures in loincloths and two saddles horses (one brown, one black) in grassy meadow on the shore of a blue lake., Figure at left is standing next to black horse while brown horse is grazing on grass in centre next to seated figure at right. Rocky mountains and grassy slopes rise from far shore of lake. Thin clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” lower right corner. On back: “THE HUNTER Frank Kaquitts Aug 1966” Stamped on back of canvas supports is “ARTISTS MATERIALS GRUMBACHER NEW YORK”

Subject: landscape; indigenous; horses; lake; mountains

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

Catalogue Number: WiS.02.19

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Running the Lower Grand Rapids, Athabasca R.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.63

Description: Foreground, green, white, grey choppy water with rocks and sparse evergreens among rocky banks. Four figures in a boat are mid-to viewer’s right., a dark, gloomy sky overhead.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Running the Lower Grand Rapids, Athabasca R.

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 39.1 x 56.5 cm

Description: Foreground, green, white, grey choppy water with rocks and sparse evergreens among rocky banks. Four figures in a boat are mid-to viewer’s right., a dark, gloomy sky overhead.