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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 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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Bow River Boat House 1952

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Artist: Cyril Harris ( – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1952

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: HaC.03.01

Description: General colour: brown on white. Three buildings - lake in front - trees behind - a flag pole with flag rises behind the house at the right. The house at the left has a chimney and is long and narrow.

Artist: Cyril Harris ( – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow River Boat House 1952

Date: 1952

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 15.1 x 21.5 cm

Description: General colour: brown on white. Three buildings - lake in front - trees behind - a flag pole with flag rises behind the house at the right. The house at the left has a chimney and is long and narrow.

Subject: landscape; lake; architecture, rural

Credit: Gift of Cyril Paris, Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: HaC.03.01

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Moraine Lake

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

Date: 1929

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.01

Description: General colour: blue. The lake at the bottom is banked on the right by trees and on the left in the distance by a mountain face rising out of the water. Glacier is center with five peaks visible: The central one being left of center at the very top. Sky is yellow grey and mostly in the upper right …

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Title: Moraine Lake

Date: 1929

Dimensions: 40.3 x 51.9 cm

Description: General colour: blue. The lake at the bottom is banked on the right by trees and on the left in the distance by a mountain face rising out of the water. Glacier is center with five peaks visible: The central one being left of center at the very top. Sky is yellow grey and mostly in the upper right corner.

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.03.01

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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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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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Bow Lake

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Artist: Fitzpatrick

Date: 1920 – 1930

Medium: ink on heavy paper

Catalogue Number: FiP.03.06

Description: A view of Bow lake, a teepee with a man in front of it, off right centre. Taken from a Byron Harmon photograph.

Artist: Fitzpatrick

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1920 – 1930

Medium: ink on heavy paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 41.7 cm

Description: A view of Bow lake, a teepee with a man in front of it, off right centre. Taken from a Byron Harmon photograph.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake

Credit: Gift of Don Harmon, Banff, 1978

Catalogue Number: FiP.03.06

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Moraine Lake

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Artist: Fitzpatrick

Date: 1920 – 1930

Medium: ink on heavy paper

Catalogue Number: FiP.03.05

Description: A view of Moraine Lake taken from a Byron Harmon photograph.

Artist: Fitzpatrick

Title: Moraine Lake

Date: 1920 – 1930

Medium: ink on heavy paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 42 cm

Description: A view of Moraine Lake taken from a Byron Harmon photograph.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; mountains

Credit: Gift of Don Harmon, Banff, 1978

Catalogue Number: FiP.03.05

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Lake Louise, Mount Lefroy

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Artist: Fitzpatrick

Date: 1920 – 1930

Medium: ink on heavy paper

Catalogue Number: FiP.03.04

Description: A view of Lake Louise with Mount Lefroy prominant in background, taken from a Byron Harmon photograph.

Artist: Fitzpatrick

Title: Lake Louise, Mount Lefroy

Date: 1920 – 1930

Medium: ink on heavy paper

Dimensions: 41.8 x 27.9 cm

Description: A view of Lake Louise with Mount Lefroy prominant in background, taken from a Byron Harmon photograph.

Subject: landscape; lake; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Don Harmon, Banff, 1978

Catalogue Number: FiP.03.04

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Lake Louise

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Artist: Fitzpatrick

Date: 1920 – 1930

Medium: ink on heavy paper

Catalogue Number: FiP.03.03

Description: A view of Lake Louise taken from a Byron Harmon photograph.

Artist: Fitzpatrick

Title: Lake Louise

Date: 1920 – 1930

Medium: ink on heavy paper

Dimensions: 26.6 x 42 cm

Description: A view of Lake Louise taken from a Byron Harmon photograph.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake

Credit: Gift of Don Harmon, Banff, 1978

Catalogue Number: FiP.03.03

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Fairholme Range, Bow River

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Artist: Fitzpatrick

Date: 1920 – 1930

Medium: ink on heavy paper

Catalogue Number: FiP.03.02

Description: A view of the Bow River between Mount Rundle and Tunnel Mountain, Fairholme Range in background - from a photograph by Byron Harmon.

Artist: Fitzpatrick

Title: Fairholme Range, Bow River

Date: 1920 – 1930

Medium: ink on heavy paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 41.7 cm

Description: A view of the Bow River between Mount Rundle and Tunnel Mountain, Fairholme Range in background - from a photograph by Byron Harmon.

Subject: landscape; mountains; Canadian Rockies; Bow River

Credit: Gift of Don Harmon, Banff, 1978

Catalogue Number: FiP.03.02

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Mount Rundle

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Artist: Fitzpatrick

Date: 1920 – 1930

Medium: ink on heavy paper

Catalogue Number: FiP.03.01

Description: Taken from a Byron Harmon photograph, Mount Rundle from Vermilion Lakes road.

Artist: Fitzpatrick

Title: Mount Rundle

Date: 1920 – 1930

Medium: ink on heavy paper

Dimensions: 27.9 x 42.8 cm

Description: Taken from a Byron Harmon photograph, Mount Rundle from Vermilion Lakes road.

Subject: landscape; Mount Rundle

Credit: Gift of Don Harmon, Banff, 1978

Catalogue Number: FiP.03.01

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Card Sketches

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Artist: John Davenall Turner (1900 – 1980, Canadian)

Date: 1951 – 1959

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: TuJ.03.01

Description: TuJ.03.01 (1951) roadside church, pen & ink, signed brc J.D. Turner Xmas card sent to the Whytes.

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Artist: John Davenall Turner (1900 – 1980, Canadian)

Title: Card Sketches

Date: 1951 – 1959

Medium: ink; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 12.5 x 17.0 cm

Description: TuJ.03.01 (1951) roadside church, pen & ink, signed brc J.D. Turner Xmas card sent to the Whytes.

Subject: landscape; Christmas

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

Catalogue Number: TuJ.03.01

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Fall in the Hills

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Artist: R. L. Hunter

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: felt pen; graphite; coloured graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.05

Description: The bottom third is a shallow blue river, 2 moose, male and female, are fording, up to their bellies, the hills in the background are autumn colours with some black to the right, the sky is clear blue

Artist: R. L. Hunter

Title: Fall in the Hills

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: felt pen; graphite; coloured graphite on paper

Dimensions: 45.0 x 60.2 cm

Description: The bottom third is a shallow blue river, 2 moose, male and female, are fording, up to their bellies, the hills in the background are autumn colours with some black to the right, the sky is clear blue

Subject: landscape; mountain; animals; animal; moose

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

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.05

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Hunter's Worries

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Artist: R. L. Hunter

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: felt pen; coloured graphite; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.04

Description: An man kneeling on a grassy knoll, with a brown and white pinto horse standing near, is looking down at a moose drinking in a river, the river runs in lower left corner, green grass and trees across foreground, grey cliffs along river and in background, big white clouds in blue sky

Artist: R. L. Hunter

Title: Hunter's Worries

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: felt pen; coloured graphite; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 45.0 x 60.3 cm

Description: An man kneeling on a grassy knoll, with a brown and white pinto horse standing near, is looking down at a moose drinking in a river, the river runs in lower left corner, green grass and trees across foreground, grey cliffs along river and in background, big white clouds in blue sky

Subject: landscape; mountain; people; activity; hunting; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.04

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Moose at water's edge

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Artist: R. L. Hunter

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: felt pen; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.03

Description: The foreground is a green grass and tree rimmed lake, a moose enters the lake near centre edge, grey mountains in background, light blue sky, large white cloud covers most of sky, edge of another cloud at right border

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Artist: R. L. Hunter

Title: Moose at water's edge

Date: prior to 1979

Medium: felt pen; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 42.5 cm

Description: The foreground is a green grass and tree rimmed lake, a moose enters the lake near centre edge, grey mountains in background, light blue sky, large white cloud covers most of sky, edge of another cloud at right border

Subject: landscape; mountain; animal; moose

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

Catalogue Number: HlR.03.03

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Burnt Wood

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Artist: Alexander Young Jackson (1882 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1924

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: JaA.03.06

Description: Pencil sketch of foothills with mountain range in background. A river indicated in foreground flows from left bottom corner to right, brc is river bank. Light and heavy pencil lines with shading, indicating trees and hills. Colour notes throughout. Drawing made on light sketchbook paper, serra…

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Artist: Alexander Young Jackson (1882 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Burnt Wood

Date: 1924

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.7 x 27.8 cm

Description: Pencil sketch of foothills with mountain range in background. A river indicated in foreground flows from left bottom corner to right, brc is river bank. Light and heavy pencil lines with shading, indicating trees and hills. Colour notes throughout. Drawing made on light sketchbook paper, serrated top edge, rounded corners bl and br.

Subject: landscape; foothills; forest

Credit: Gift of Naomi Jackson Groves, Ottawa, 1989

Catalogue Number: JaA.03.06

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Untitled

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1957

Medium: crayon on paper

Catalogue Number: DaK.03.34

Description: Mountains dominate top two thirds of picture. Running along base of mountains are a line of trees, a lake is indicated in bottom third foreground.

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1957

Medium: crayon on paper

Dimensions: 29.4 x 37.0 cm

Description: Mountains dominate top two thirds of picture. Running along base of mountains are a line of trees, a lake is indicated in bottom third foreground.