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Banff Road, West of Calgary.

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

Date: 1963

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.25

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Lower third is brown fields with a few vague structures here and there. Upper two thirds are blue mountain range and clouded sky.

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

Title: Banff Road, West of Calgary.

Date: 1963

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 20.3 x 25.3 cm

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Lower third is brown fields with a few vague structures here and there. Upper two thirds are blue mountain range and clouded sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.25

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Bubba Peibi

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Artist: Unknown

Date: c. 1970

Medium: watercolour on bark

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.02

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Bubba Peibi

Date: c. 1970

Medium: watercolour on bark

Dimensions: 46.0 x 20.9 cm

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.02

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Ceremonial Dancer

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Artist: Gerald Tailfeathers (1925 – 1975, Canadian)

Date: 1967

Medium: watercolour, ink on paper

Catalogue Number: TaG.05.01

Description: Colour: brown, black, turquoise, orange on white. A single figure in ceremonial dress whirls two turquoise blue hoops round his wrists. The black and white feathers of his headdress and tail are tipped with orange.

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Artist: Gerald Tailfeathers (1925 – 1975, Canadian)

Title: Ceremonial Dancer

Date: 1967

Medium: watercolour, ink on paper

Dimensions: 17.6 x 22.8 cm

Description: Colour: brown, black, turquoise, orange on white. A single figure in ceremonial dress whirls two turquoise blue hoops round his wrists. The black and white feathers of his headdress and tail are tipped with orange.

Subject: figure, male; activity, dancing

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: TaG.05.01

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Elisabee Povungnituk

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

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.05

Description: A full face portrait of an Inuit lady. She has a red patterned scarf around her head, a green parka with a yellow collar.

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

Title: Elisabee Povungnituk

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 45.8 x 38.0 cm

Description: A full face portrait of an Inuit lady. She has a red patterned scarf around her head, a green parka with a yellow collar.

Subject: portrait, female; Inuit

Credit: Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.05

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Eskimo Man

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

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.07

Description: The head of an Inuit man, facing slightly to the right, is dressed in a yellow parka with light brown fur trim around his face, two red ties hang from the centre hood.

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

Title: Eskimo Man

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 38.0 x 33.3 cm

Description: The head of an Inuit man, facing slightly to the right, is dressed in a yellow parka with light brown fur trim around his face, two red ties hang from the centre hood.

Subject: portrait, male; Inuit; Povungnituk

Credit: Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995

Catalogue Number: DaK.02.07

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A Fishing Expedition

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Artist: Unknown

Date: c. 1970

Medium: watercolour on bark

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.01

Description: Story label on back of bark. Text on back of painting indicates horizontal; but probably intends vertical. Purchased in Australia. by Catharine Robb Whyte ca.1975. Barking and support done by Kensington Art Gallery, Calgary.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: A Fishing Expedition

Date: c. 1970

Medium: watercolour on bark

Dimensions: 42.7 x 22.4 cm

Description: Story label on back of bark. Text on back of painting indicates horizontal; but probably intends vertical. Purchased in Australia. by Catharine Robb Whyte ca.1975. Barking and support done by Kensington Art Gallery, Calgary.

Subject: activity, fishing

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.01

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Follow-up

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Artist: Alex Simeon Janvier (1935 – , Canadian)

Date: 1964

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: JvA.05.01

Description: General colour: red, blue on white. A horizontal shape cuts the picture in half. Another shape goes up from that to the upper edge left of center. A single orange line comes down to the left lower edge. Four large orange dots sit at the outsides of the main shape.

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Artist: Alex Simeon Janvier (1935 – , Canadian)

Title: Follow-up

Date: 1964

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 37.0 x 25.5 cm

Description: General colour: red, blue on white. A horizontal shape cuts the picture in half. Another shape goes up from that to the upper edge left of center. A single orange line comes down to the left lower edge. Four large orange dots sit at the outsides of the main shape.

Subject: mythological; abstract, non-representational

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

Catalogue Number: JvA.05.01

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The Homestead

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

Date: 1964

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.05

Description: General colour: brown, blue. Lower half is fields, farm buildings left, center and right. Two horses stand lower left. Upper half is distant blue mountains and clouded sky.

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

Title: The Homestead

Date: 1964

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 15.2 x 22.8 cm

Description: General colour: brown, blue. Lower half is fields, farm buildings left, center and right. Two horses stand lower left. Upper half is distant blue mountains and clouded sky.

Subject: landscape; foothills; architecture, rural

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.05

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Inuit Child

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.411

Description: A full face head and shoulders portrait of a young Inuit child. She is wearing a peaked hood blue parka with brown fur trim. The painting appears unfinished.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Inuit Child

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35.0 x 27.5 cm

Description: A full face head and shoulders portrait of a young Inuit child. She is wearing a peaked hood blue parka with brown fur trim. The painting appears unfinished.

Subject: portrait; child

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.411

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Inuit Portrait, Povungnituk

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.359

Description: A painting of an Inuit man, he is facing to the right. His face and hair is painted in, however the rest of the picture is unfinished.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Inuit Portrait, Povungnituk

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 37.7 x 38.0 cm

Description: A painting of an Inuit man, he is facing to the right. His face and hair is painted in, however the rest of the picture is unfinished.

Subject: portrait, male

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.359

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Kananaskis Lake

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

Date: 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.13

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Near shore is brown and fills lower area. Two posts sunk in the sand at the left side. The water reaches the far shore (one third up) of blue hills. The sky is full of rain clouds. On the left side a dark cloud appears to be loosing rain on the lake.

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

Title: Kananaskis Lake

Date: 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 29.1 x 38.7 cm

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Near shore is brown and fills lower area. Two posts sunk in the sand at the left side. The water reaches the far shore (one third up) of blue hills. The sky is full of rain clouds. On the left side a dark cloud appears to be loosing rain on the lake.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.13

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Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Mignon Fox Linck

Date: c. 1966

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LiM.05.01

Description: The mountain dominates the entire picture from side to side with a little dark blue sky at the top and the lake in the immediate foreground. Written in pen on the back of the dust jacket in pen and ink: With love to Lillian you Glacier Peak affectionally Mignon.

Artist: Mignon Fox Linck

Title: Lake O'Hara

Date: c. 1966

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 14.9 x 22.5 cm

Description: The mountain dominates the entire picture from side to side with a little dark blue sky at the top and the lake in the immediate foreground. Written in pen on the back of the dust jacket in pen and ink: With love to Lillian you Glacier Peak affectionally Mignon.

Subject: landscape; mountains; lake

Credit: Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1986

Catalogue Number: LiM.05.01

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Rocky Mountain Suite #2

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Artist: Jerry F. Grey

Date: c. 1974

Medium: watercolour; liquitex on paper

Catalogue Number: GrJ.05.01

Description: General colour: yellow. A surface gridded in varying densities of the same colour. In every square of sixteen small squares there is a white triangle in the lower left corner.

Artist: Jerry F. Grey

Title: Rocky Mountain Suite #2

Date: c. 1974

Medium: watercolour; liquitex on paper

Dimensions: 41.3 x 58.4 cm

Description: General colour: yellow. A surface gridded in varying densities of the same colour. In every square of sixteen small squares there is a white triangle in the lower left corner.

Subject: abstract; non-representational

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

Catalogue Number: GrJ.05.01

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The Top of the Hill

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

Date: 1963

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.07

Description: General colour: grey, brown, blue. A road winds from the lower edge right to center and disappears into a grey hill with bushes on it and two trees left of center. Fence posts can be seen crossing the picture at the bottom of the hill. In the background to the left are distant mountains. The upper …

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

Title: The Top of the Hill

Date: 1963

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 19.0 x 24.7 cm

Description: General colour: grey, brown, blue. A road winds from the lower edge right to center and disappears into a grey hill with bushes on it and two trees left of center. Fence posts can be seen crossing the picture at the bottom of the hill. In the background to the left are distant mountains. The upper part is clouds and sits of blue sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

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

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.07

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Untitled

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Artist: Alex Simeon Janvier (1935 – , Canadian)

Date: 1963

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: JvA.05.02

Description: General colour: blue, orange. The drawing is contained by two horizontal lines. A blue one at the top and an orange at the bottom. Nine birds form a horizontal line across the middle. Two taller creatures stand left of centre. A dotted line runs from the right side down to the orange line and a? up…

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Artist: Alex Simeon Janvier (1935 – , Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1963

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 23.0 x 31.0 cm

Description: General colour: blue, orange. The drawing is contained by two horizontal lines. A blue one at the top and an orange at the bottom. Nine birds form a horizontal line across the middle. Two taller creatures stand left of centre. A dotted line runs from the right side down to the orange line and a? up to end by the last bird on the left.