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- Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian) 99
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- George Webber 4
- Michael Cameron (1955 – , Canadian) 4
- Steven Dixon 3
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Castor Peak, Pollux Peak and the Asulkan Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactric.18.17
- Date
- 2000
- Medium
- photograph on photographic paper
- Catalogue Number
- RiC.18.17
- Description
- Black and white photograph of Asulkan Glacier, Castor Peak and Pollux Peak in Glacier National Park. In the foreground along the bottom of the image there is a rocky area. Snow and swirling snow make up the middle portion of the image. The Mountain peaks are visible through the snow.
- Title
- Castor Peak, Pollux Peak and the Asulkan Glacier
- Date
- 2000
- Medium
- photograph on photographic paper
- Description
- Black and white photograph of Asulkan Glacier, Castor Peak and Pollux Peak in Glacier National Park. In the foreground along the bottom of the image there is a rocky area. Snow and swirling snow make up the middle portion of the image. The Mountain peaks are visible through the snow.
- Credit
- Purchased from Robert Smith, Banff, 2001
- Catalogue Number
- RiC.18.17
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Rock near Meeting of the Waters
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactkre.18.02
- Date
- 2000
- Medium
- photograph on photographic paper
- Catalogue Number
- KrE.18.02
- Description
- A colour photograph that shows a close up of wet rock. Lichen or moss is growing on the rock. The rock is dark grey, the lichen is white.
1 image
- Title
- Rock near Meeting of the Waters
- Date
- 2000
- Medium
- photograph on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- 40.6 x 50.8 cm
- Description
- A colour photograph that shows a close up of wet rock. Lichen or moss is growing on the rock. The rock is dark grey, the lichen is white.
- Credit
- Purchased from Robert Smith, Banff, 2001
- Catalogue Number
- KrE.18.02
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Lone Tree Below Illecillewaet Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbod.18.01
- Date
- 2000
- Medium
- photograph on photographic paper
- Catalogue Number
- BoD.18.01
- Description
- Colour photograph of tree in foreground. Behind it there is a mountain landscape. Around the tree is a rocky area. Clouds extend across the sky.
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- Title
- Lone Tree Below Illecillewaet Glacier
- Date
- 2000
- Medium
- photograph on photographic paper
- Description
- Colour photograph of tree in foreground. Behind it there is a mountain landscape. Around the tree is a rocky area. Clouds extend across the sky.
- Credit
- Purchased from Robert Smith, Banff, 2001
- Catalogue Number
- BoD.18.01
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Motion Pictures: B20: Looking for the Body in the Upper Vaux Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcwd.18.05
- Date
- 2001
- Medium
- photograph on photographic paper
- Catalogue Number
- CwD.18.05
- Description
- Photograph of Vaux glacier which looks as if it was taken as a still image from a motion picture. In the upper left corner is sky which is slightly sepia coloured. It looks as if the image has been overexposed in this area. Below the sky the glacier is visible. A mountain rises up to the right …
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- Title
- Motion Pictures: B20: Looking for the Body in the Upper Vaux Glacier
- Date
- 2001
- Medium
- photograph on photographic paper
- Description
- Photograph of Vaux glacier which looks as if it was taken as a still image from a motion picture. In the upper left corner is sky which is slightly sepia coloured. It looks as if the image has been overexposed in this area. Below the sky the glacier is visible. A mountain rises up to the right of the work as a dark area.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Vaux glacier
- Credit
- Purchased from Robert Smith, Banff, 2001
- Catalogue Number
- CwD.18.05
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- Date
- 2003
- Medium
- oil on reclaimed door
- Catalogue Number
- CaM.02.05
- Description
- A highly varnished painting of Boulder Pass. At the bottom of the image there is snow that sweeps up the right side of the image and caps a rocky cliff. The snow is quite yellow at the centre of the image but becomes shadowed and dark in the bottom right corner. A lower snow-capped cliff is in t…
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- Title
- Boulder Pass
- Date
- 2003
- Medium
- oil on reclaimed door
- Dimensions
- 75.0 x 75.0 cm
- Description
- A highly varnished painting of Boulder Pass. At the bottom of the image there is snow that sweeps up the right side of the image and caps a rocky cliff. The snow is quite yellow at the centre of the image but becomes shadowed and dark in the bottom right corner. A lower snow-capped cliff is in the lower left corner. It forms a pass between it and the cliff on the right. The sky is quite dark at the top of the image but quite cloudy and grey-yellow lower down at the centre of the image. The vantage point makes the viewer feel as if they are peering over the ledge of a cliff and that all that is visible is sky.
- Credit
- Purchased from Michael Cameron, Banff, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- CaM.02.05
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Study for Boulder Pass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcam.02.06
- Date
- 2003
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- CaM.02.06
- Description
- Study for Boulder Pass painting. Yellowish snow sweeps across the bottom and up to a snow-capped cliff top. A lower snow-capped cliff is in the bottom right corner. The two cliffs form a pass between them. A stormy sky takes up the top of the image.
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- Title
- Study for Boulder Pass
- Date
- 2003
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 16.9 x 16.7 cm
- Description
- Study for Boulder Pass painting. Yellowish snow sweeps across the bottom and up to a snow-capped cliff top. A lower snow-capped cliff is in the bottom right corner. The two cliffs form a pass between them. A stormy sky takes up the top of the image.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Boulder Pass
- snow
- clouds
- Credit
- Purchased from Michael Cameron, Banff, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- CaM.02.06
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- Date
- 2003
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- CaM.02.07
- Description
- A small dark study of Mt. Rundle. The base of the mountain is quite dark and gradually climbs to shades of blue and than to yellow-white snow. The back side of the mountain is quite dark and in shadows. The sky is dark and stormy except for yellow clouds that appear as if sun is reflecting off t…
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- Title
- Rundle Study
- Date
- 2003
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 16.8 x 16.8 cm
- Description
- A small dark study of Mt. Rundle. The base of the mountain is quite dark and gradually climbs to shades of blue and than to yellow-white snow. The back side of the mountain is quite dark and in shadows. The sky is dark and stormy except for yellow clouds that appear as if sun is reflecting off them.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Mt. Rundle
- snow
- clouds
- Credit
- Purchased from Michael Cameron, Banff, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- CaM.02.07
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Red Tongue and Owlet Feathers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactodt.12.01%20a
- Artist
- Tatianna M. O’Donnell
- Date
- 2003
- Medium
- acrylic, feathers on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- OdT.12.01 a
- Description
- Diptych depicting one scene of a forest fire.
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- Artist
- Tatianna M. O’Donnell
- Title
- Red Tongue and Owlet Feathers
- Date
- 2003
- Medium
- acrylic, feathers on canvas
- Dimensions
- 111.5 x 86.5 cm
- Description
- Diptych depicting one scene of a forest fire.
- Subject
- landscape
- forest
- activity
- forest fire
- Credit
- Gift of Tatianna M. O’Donnell, Enderby, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- OdT.12.01 a
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Red Tongue and Owlet Feathers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactodt.12.01%20b
- Artist
- Tatianna M. O’Donnell
- Date
- 2003
- Medium
- acrylic, feathers on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- OdT.12.01 b
- Description
- Diptych depicting one scene of a forest fire.
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- Artist
- Tatianna M. O’Donnell
- Title
- Red Tongue and Owlet Feathers
- Date
- 2003
- Medium
- acrylic, feathers on canvas
- Dimensions
- 71.0 x 51.0 cm
- Description
- Diptych depicting one scene of a forest fire.
- Subject
- landscape
- forest
- activity
- forest fire
- Credit
- Gift of Tatianna M. O’Donnell, Enderby, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- OdT.12.01 b
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Evening near Floe Lake
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmok.02.01
- Date
- 2004
- Medium
- oil; varnish on wood door
- Catalogue Number
- MoK.02.01
- Description
- Yellow sky seen through burnt trees.
1 image
- Title
- Evening near Floe Lake
- Date
- 2004
- Medium
- oil; varnish on wood door
- Dimensions
- 38.6 x 98.5 cm
- Description
- Yellow sky seen through burnt trees.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Floe Lake area
- Credit
- Purchased from Karen Maiolo, Banff, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- MoK.02.01
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- Date
- 2004
- Medium
- oil; tar; varnish on board
- Catalogue Number
- CaM.02.08
- Description
- 2003 forest fire in Skoki Valley.
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- Title
- Valley Fire
- Date
- 2004
- Medium
- oil; tar; varnish on board
- Dimensions
- 76.0 x 76.0 cm
- Description
- 2003 forest fire in Skoki Valley.
- Credit
- Gift of Michael Cameron, Banff, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- CaM.02.08
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- Date
- 2009
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SmB.05.03
- Description
- Painting is dominated by Mt. Temple and one spruce tree on the viewer’s left that reaches almost out of the painting. Dominant colours are green, blue, grey, white, and black. Snow, some water and the bank is visible in the immediate lower foreground and the spruce tree rising out of snow to the le…
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- Title
- Mt. Temple
- Date
- 2009
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.0 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- Painting is dominated by Mt. Temple and one spruce tree on the viewer’s left that reaches almost out of the painting. Dominant colours are green, blue, grey, white, and black. Snow, some water and the bank is visible in the immediate lower foreground and the spruce tree rising out of snow to the left. A bank of coniferous trees begin on the viewer’s left at the spruce tree and rise steadily to the viewer’s right. Two-thirds of the painting is a snow and ice-covered blue and grey Mt. Temple. The sky is grey and cloudy obscuring the mountain peak. A vestige of blue sky behind the mountain shows through on viewer’s middle right.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- Mt. Temple
- Credit
- Purchased from Brett Smith, 108 Mile Ranch, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- SmB.05.03
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Mosquito Creek
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsmb.05.04
- Date
- 2009
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SmB.05.04
- Description
- A winter scene with dominant colours of white, green, blue, grey, and black. The foreground, which is more than half the painting, is comprised of snow, ice, shadows, two sections of the creek starting from viewer’s left, with one bush and one coniferous tree to viewer’s far middle right. The dark …
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- Title
- Mosquito Creek
- Date
- 2009
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 36.7 cm
- Description
- A winter scene with dominant colours of white, green, blue, grey, and black. The foreground, which is more than half the painting, is comprised of snow, ice, shadows, two sections of the creek starting from viewer’s left, with one bush and one coniferous tree to viewer’s far middle right. The dark water of the creek is visible from the bush at the right, flows under the ice and snow, and then reappears at the left-hand centre of the painting and flows to the viewer’s left hand corner of the painting. The top-third of the painting is a bank of coniferous trees, sparsely painted on the left, becoming larger and darker towards middle and then lighter on the right as the trees further back rise to the mountain range in the background. Snow and clouds obscure the mountain tops. The sky is light grey and white.
- Credit
- Purchased from Brett Smith, 108 Mile Ranch, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- SmB.05.04
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- Date
- 2009
- Medium
- painting on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SmB.05.05
- Description
- A summer scene dominated by Mt. Rundle and the trees that flank Vermilion’s first lake. The dominant colours are light and dark green, black, blue, brown and grey. The foreground is green and brown low vegetation, out of which a line of lodgepole pines, some dead and still standing, rise to two-thi…
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- Title
- Rundle
- Date
- 2009
- Medium
- painting on paper
- Dimensions
- 29.0 x 38.5 cm
- Description
- A summer scene dominated by Mt. Rundle and the trees that flank Vermilion’s first lake. The dominant colours are light and dark green, black, blue, brown and grey. The foreground is green and brown low vegetation, out of which a line of lodgepole pines, some dead and still standing, rise to two-thirds of the painting. Starting at the viewer’s far left, at mid-point, the branches of an aspen with green leaves fills the top far left of the painting. Vermilion’s first lake is visible though the lodgepoles and directly behind that, are the dark trees that line its opposite bank. Above the lake the lower slope of Tunnel Mountain is visible to the viewer’s left. The painting is dominated by majestic Mount Rundle, its lower slopes covered with muted green coniferous trees and its sheer rock face in varying shades of grey, blue, and brown. The deep blue sky has a few wisps of white showing through and some light grey clouds to the viewer’s right, above the peaks of the Rundle Range.
- Credit
- Purchased from Brett Smith, 108 Mile Ranch, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- SmB.05.05
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Stormy Mountain Sky
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactsmb.05.06
- Date
- 2009
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SmB.05.06
- Description
- A dark, stormy sky, and a large stand of partially burned trees on the viewer’s left, dominate the top two-thirds of the painting. The dominant colours are blue, black, green and brown. In the foreground to the viewer’s right are remnants of stumps and what appears to be fall vegetation, with charr…
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- Title
- Stormy Mountain Sky
- Date
- 2009
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.3 x 40.0 cm
- Description
- A dark, stormy sky, and a large stand of partially burned trees on the viewer’s left, dominate the top two-thirds of the painting. The dominant colours are blue, black, green and brown. In the foreground to the viewer’s right are remnants of stumps and what appears to be fall vegetation, with charred tree trunks. To the viewer’s left is a charred stump of a burned tree trunk and above that a large stand of lodgepole pines with charred trunks, but with needles still on the tops of the trees. The stand of trees rise high into the stormy sky. Further away, behind the lodgepole pine trees, is a bank of coniferous trees in various shades of greens, that stretch across the painting. Above that, starting behind and to the right of the lodgepoles, mountains are visible; the first and farthest away, is grey with some snow visible, and then wooded mountains continue to the viewer’s far right to the edge of the painting. The dark, cloudy sky dominates most of the painting.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Canadian Rockies
- Credit
- Purchased from Brett Smith, 108 Mile Ranch, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- SmB.05.06
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Above Mount Assiniboine #1
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactthr.05.01
- Artist
- Rene Thibault (1947 – )
- Date
- 2009
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ThR.05.01
- Description
- Predominant colours are pink, blue, purple, green and brown. The painting is dominated by the pyramidal-shaped Mt. Assiniboine and the icefield below it. It appears to be an aerial view of sunrise on the mountain. The foreground is comprised of rocks showing through a snow-covered approach to the m…
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- Artist
- Rene Thibault (1947 – )
- Title
- Above Mount Assiniboine #1
- Date
- 2009
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 38.0 x 58.0 cm
- Description
- Predominant colours are pink, blue, purple, green and brown. The painting is dominated by the pyramidal-shaped Mt. Assiniboine and the icefield below it. It appears to be an aerial view of sunrise on the mountain. The foreground is comprised of rocks showing through a snow-covered approach to the mountain peak. The rocks are various shades of very dark blue, lighter blue and brown. To the viewer’s left the snow is tinged in various shades of pink as the morning light strikes it and the view to the right is still in the blue shades of shadow. The artist’s signature in white is in this area. The middle of the painting is the pink glow of the sun on snow with some shaded snow and rocks still showing to the viewer’s right. The top-half is a snow-covered Mt. Assiniboine with brown rock bands; viewer’s right in the sun’s light and viewer’s left in the shade. Beyond the mountain are hills and valleys of pink, blue and green. The sky is a very deep shade of purple and blue.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountains
- Mt. Assiniboine
- Credit
- Gift of Rene Thibault, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- ThR.05.01
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View from The Rock Pile, Moraine Lake
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbem.04.01
- Date
- 2007
- Medium
- print on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeM.04.01
- Description
- General colours of grey, white, green, purple, grey, gold, black and blue. In the foreground is a rock pile painted in shades of purple, grey and green, and to the viewer’s extreme right, the blue of the north end of Moraine Lake. Above the rock pile to the viewer’s left are a stand of coniferous t…
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- Title
- View from The Rock Pile, Moraine Lake
- Date
- 2007
- Medium
- print on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.2 x 24.7 cm
- Description
- General colours of grey, white, green, purple, grey, gold, black and blue. In the foreground is a rock pile painted in shades of purple, grey and green, and to the viewer’s extreme right, the blue of the north end of Moraine Lake. Above the rock pile to the viewer’s left are a stand of coniferous tree becoming sparser (seven trees) as the eye turns to the right ending at the edge of the rock pile. To the viewer’s left, above the foreground trees, are hills covered in snow and trees and the massive grey, green, and brown Tower of Babel mountain mid- to right. Below the Tower and to the right is the dark grey and black rock slide, sparsely covered with trees, which rises to the slate-coloured mountain. Snow-covered chutes and gullies lined with trees rise from behind the rock pile to the viewer’s extreme right.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Tower of Babel
- Morraine Lake
- Credit
- Gift of Kerry Guenter, 2008
- Catalogue Number
- BeM.04.01
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On Lake O’Hara
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- Artist
- Rene Thibault (1947 – )
- Date
- 2009
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- ThR.12.01
- Description
- General colours of blue, grey, turquoise, violet, pink, green, white, black and brown. The painting is dominated by a frontal view of Mount Yukness as seen from the shoreline of Lake O’Hara. In the foreground is a grey, blue rocky shore with rocks, water and tree trunks. On the viewer’s left are th…
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- Artist
- Rene Thibault (1947 – )
- Title
- On Lake O’Hara
- Date
- 2009
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61.0 x 61.0 cm
- Description
- General colours of blue, grey, turquoise, violet, pink, green, white, black and brown. The painting is dominated by a frontal view of Mount Yukness as seen from the shoreline of Lake O’Hara. In the foreground is a grey, blue rocky shore with rocks, water and tree trunks. On the viewer’s left are three large dead tree trunks, painted in black, brown, grey and violet, lying on grey rocks interspersed with blue water puddles; the topmost tree trunk has branches, the lower two do not. To the viewer’s right two tree trunks are lying on the rocky shore; the bottom tree trunk, which extends further out in the water, has four branches and beneath this is the artist’s signature “Rene Thibault” in black. About one-quarter up from the shore and tree trunks there are three coniferous trees to the viewer’s left, and then a rock in the water with coniferous trees growing on it. Beyond this, viewer’s left, is the lake and opposite shore; the lake has shadows of black, blue, grey extending to turquoise blue and grey further out and to the opposite shore at the base of Mt. Yukness. Beyond the foreground tree trunks, mid- and to to viewer’s right, darker grey rocks are visible through the water. On the viewer’s right the water becomes more turquoise as it reaches a bank beyond comprised of grey rock, a line of coniferous trees in greens and black, and a few grey tree trunks lying on the shore. The face of Mount Yukness comprises the majority of the painting (top two-thirds). The lower part of the mountain is painted in darker greys and blues except for the moraine from the falls which is light grey. The uppermost part with the Yukness Ledges and peak are painted grey, white, pink and blue. The sky behind is painted in grey with bold strokes of white and lighter greys simulating clouds.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountains
- Lake O’Hara
- Credit
- Gift of Rene Thibault, 2009
- Catalogue Number
- ThR.12.01
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- Date
- 2003
- Material
- paper; plastic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1140 a-c
- Description
- Three double-sided, plastic-covered scenic placemats with: (a) having one coloured photographic reproduction of Bow Lake on one side and a black-and-white photographic reproduction of Crowfoot Glacier on the other; (b,c) Alberta’s wildflowers on one side of both; (b) a colour photograph reproductio…
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- Title
- Placemat
- Date
- 2003
- Material
- paper; plastic
- Dimensions
- 29.0 x 44.2 cm
- Description
- Three double-sided, plastic-covered scenic placemats with: (a) having one coloured photographic reproduction of Bow Lake on one side and a black-and-white photographic reproduction of Crowfoot Glacier on the other; (b,c) Alberta’s wildflowers on one side of both; (b) a colour photograph reproduction of Lake Louise; (c) a colour photographic reproduction of Moraine Lake. (a) The lower half of the photograph is the lake and shoreline and the top half is mountains and sky. The foreground of the lake’s shore is in the shade and mostly dark, except for a bit of green vegetation in the viewer’s extreme left-hand corner and some green bushes bunched together in the lower middle. Some sunlight hits part of the brown-coloured vegetation and logs. There are parts of dark branches of a spruce tree from top to bottom on the viewer’s left; mid-centre the shore juts out and further down, a log with some branches. On the viewer’s right there are heavy green branches, the bottom part in the shade, that form part of a spruce tree from top to bottom. The lake is sunlit from the left with reflections of the mountains in the shimmering water. The shore beyond is lined with trees and the grey mountains, with some snow on the peaks, above and further to the viewer’s right, a glimpse of a glacier. On the viewer’s far right some green vegetation and than a rust-coloured moraine, leading up to a mountain barely discernable through the spruce tree branches. The sky is blue with white, puffy clouds. On the white border, printed in black script, in viewer’s left-hand bottom corner “Bow Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada”; on the white border, printed in black italics, in viewer’s right-hand bottom corner “Photo Don Harmon” and underneath it “Distributed b Byron Harmon Photos, P.O. Box 490, Banff, Alberta”. On the opposite side of the placemat is a copy of a black-and-white photograph by Byron Harmon of Crowfoot Glacier in 1917. The foreground is branches, vegetation and one large spruce tree, on the viewer’s far right, that rises almost to the top of the photograph. Mid-centre, four packhorses, carrying their diamond-hitch loads, are grazing near two spruce trees. A bank of trees behind the horses rises steadily to the viewer’s right and the giant Crowfoot Glacier, with three complete ‘toes’, to the viewer’s right and one incomplete ‘toe’ on the left, makes up the top-half, except for a bit of sky, mid-to-far left. On the white border, in viewer’s left-hand bottom corner, printed in black lettering, is “Crowfoot Glacier 1917” and on the right-hand bottom corner “Photo B. Harmon”.(b) and (c): on one side, in the middle of the placemats is a large rectangle with a white background and “Wild Flowers of the Canadian Rockies” printed in script-style, in dark pink ink. A pink wild rose, open, a bulb without petals, and two stems with leaves, are mid-centre to viewer’s left. “Wild Rose” is printed in black script to the the left and “Alberta’s Floral Emblem” is printed, to the right of the rose, in light blue script. The outside edge of the placemat has 16 brown-framed boxes with pictures and the printed name of the following flowers: starting from viewer’s left top, clockwise: “Blue Flax”, “Yellow Vetch”, “Indian Paintbrush”, ”Pink Pussy Toes”, “Buffalo Berry”, “Heart-Leaf Arnica”, “Hare Bells”, “Tiger Lily”, “Sagebrush Buttercup”, “Wood Violet”, “Crocus”, “American Vetch” , “Strawberry”, “Yellow Columbine” , and “Fire Weed”. On the other other side of (b) (30.0x44.20cm wide), the photo is dominated by a summer view of Lake Louise, the Victoria Glacier behind, and the front lawn and swimming pool of Chateau Lake Louise. The foreground is made up, on viewer’s left, of: lawn and walkway, fence and lake walkway, three people walking, one person standing, one person sitting at a table, three spruce trees, three horses with riders, and red, yellow and white poppies. In the foreground, on viewer’s middle and right, are two more horses with riders, three people on the walkway, two people sitting on chairs at a table, more poppies, spruce trees and a white roofless structure, with openings all around, that surrounds a swimming pool with people, one diving in midair. The middle of the scene is the turquoise-blue waters of Lake Louise, with the reflection of Victoria Glacier, and a canoe with two people in it. The rest of the scene is mountains in shade on the viewer’s left, the sunlit Victoria Glacier in the middle, and wooded mountains to the right. The sky is a deep blue. On the white border, viewer’s left, printed in black ink “Distributed by United News (wholesalers) Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, Canada”; in the middle, printed in black, “LAKE LOUISE” and underneath, “BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA, CANADA”. On the white border, viewer’s right-hand bottom corner, printed in black ink, “A Traveltime Canada Placemat / PMS-6218” and underneath, “printed in Canada by lawson graphics pacific limited vancouver, british columbia”. The other side of (c) (30.3x44.4cm wide) is a summer image of Moraine Lake with six of the mountain peaks behind it. The foreground is spruce trees, rocks and the blue waters of Moraine Lake. To the viewer’s left is the top of a spruce tree extending to the grey moraine above, then two more spruce trees, grey rocks, a brown rocky path leading to the viewer’s right, a small coniferous tree, and at viewer’s far right, a large spruce tree reaching the top of the image. In the viewer’s right-hand bottom corner, the words “DON HARMON” is printed in yellow. Water can seen through the trees and the reflection of the mountains and trees is discernible. Above the moraine and trees on the viewer’s far left is a shaded tree-covered slope reaching the top of the image. Coniferous trees line the lake shore, above which moraine and snow move from the five mountain peaks, toward the lake. The sky is bright blue above the grey, granite mountains, that have some snow on them. On the white border, viewer’s left-hand bottom corner, printed in black ink “Distributed by United News (wholesalers) Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, Canada” and underneath “Photo by Don Harmon”; in the middle, in black ink “MORAINE LAKE” and underneath “BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA, CANADA”; in the viewer’s right-hand bottom corner, printed in black ink, “A Traveltime Canada Placemat / PMS-6218” and underneath, “printed in Canada by lawson graphics pacific limited vancouver, british columbia”.
- Credit
- Gift of Ursula Welford, Thorold, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1140 a-c
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Lake near Jasper, Canadian Rockies
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- Artist
- Donald Curran (1955 – )
- Date
- 2007
- Medium
- on board
- Catalogue Number
- CuR.02.01
- Description
- An oil painting on board, unframed. The top-half of the painting comprises the brown and beige shoreline, the red and white boathouse, green coniferous trees, the mountains with snow-covered peaks and the blue sky with horizontal mauve and purple clouds. The bottom half of the painting comprises th…
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- Artist
- Donald Curran (1955 – )
- Title
- Lake near Jasper, Canadian Rockies
- Date
- 2007
- Medium
- on board
- Dimensions
- 20.3 x 24.5 cm
- Description
- An oil painting on board, unframed. The top-half of the painting comprises the brown and beige shoreline, the red and white boathouse, green coniferous trees, the mountains with snow-covered peaks and the blue sky with horizontal mauve and purple clouds. The bottom half of the painting comprises the lake and on the viewer’s left, the rocky shoreline and the top-half reflected in the water: the boathouse, the mountains behind, the trees and the sky. The artist signature is in the rhc: DONALD CURRAN 2007. Au verso top printed in pen “LAKE NEAR JASPER CANADIAN ROCKIES” signed in script underneath “Donald Curran 2007”.
- Credit
- Gift of Kerry Guenter, 2007
- Catalogue Number
- CuR.02.01
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