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Artist
John Kenneth Esler (1933 – , Canadian)
Date
1976
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
EsK.04.02
Description
The bottom two thirds of the print is white with an interconnecting web of straight lines throughout. Above this light section are two low tent shaped images with a gray shadow. The top third is a combination of straight and crossed lines and shapes differing in colours ranging from dark blue and g…
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Artist
John Kenneth Esler (1933 – , Canadian)
Title
Boreas
Date
1976
Medium
ink on paper
Description
The bottom two thirds of the print is white with an interconnecting web of straight lines throughout. Above this light section are two low tent shaped images with a gray shadow. The top third is a combination of straight and crossed lines and shapes differing in colours ranging from dark blue and gray to a maroon colour.
Subject
mythological
Boreas
Credit
Gift of Dora Helen Mackie, Calgary, 1998
Catalogue Number
EsK.04.02
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Bringing Back a Lost Soul

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Artist
Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)
Date
1972
Medium
lithograph on paper
Catalogue Number
StS.04.01
Description
Colour: black on white. Central figure is kneeling, with the head of an ill man resting in his hands. Behind them are swirls of strange figures, their arms outstretched. Vestiges of former drawing visible.
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Artist
Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)
Title
Bringing Back a Lost Soul
Date
1972
Medium
lithograph on paper
Dimensions
59.6 x 39.2 cm
Description
Colour: black on white. Central figure is kneeling, with the head of an ill man resting in his hands. Behind them are swirls of strange figures, their arms outstretched. Vestiges of former drawing visible.
Subject
figure, group
mythological
Credit
Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
StS.04.01
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Bringing Back A Lost Soul

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Artist
Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)
Date
1972
Medium
lithograph on paper
Catalogue Number
StS.04.05
Description
Colour: black on white. Central figure is kneeling, with the head of an ill man resting in his hands. Behind them are swirls of strange figures, their arms outstretched.
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Artist
Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)
Title
Bringing Back A Lost Soul
Date
1972
Medium
lithograph on paper
Dimensions
59.6 x 39.2 cm
Description
Colour: black on white. Central figure is kneeling, with the head of an ill man resting in his hands. Behind them are swirls of strange figures, their arms outstretched.
Subject
figure, group
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
StS.04.05
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But of all the creatures...

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Artist
Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)
Date
1978
Medium
ink; watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ArP.04.11
Description
The story - page 10:But of all the creatures I've run across, there is nothing so wonderful as a banquet. They all eat supper just about the same.
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Artist
Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)
Title
But of all the creatures...
Date
1978
Medium
ink; watercolour on paper
Dimensions
17.5 x 17.5 cm
Description
The story - page 10:But of all the creatures I've run across, there is nothing so wonderful as a banquet. They all eat supper just about the same.
Subject
animal
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ArP.04.11
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Artist
Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)
Date
1970
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
StS.05.02
Description
General colour: grey green. A man, wearing only a blue loin cloth and two feathers in his braided hair grips the neck of another man who kneels to the right of him. A ghost image of a bear grasping a bison is slightly superimposed on top of them. There is a horizon line of white figures - four to e…
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Artist
Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)
Title
The Contest
Date
1970
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
26.1 x 37.5 cm
Description
General colour: grey green. A man, wearing only a blue loin cloth and two feathers in his braided hair grips the neck of another man who kneels to the right of him. A ghost image of a bear grasping a bison is slightly superimposed on top of them. There is a horizon line of white figures - four to each side of the central image.Au verso: “THE CONTEST” tlhc “436” encircled, rhtc “K.6” (remaining number hidden by archival tape)brhc “12” encircled, below “30” encircled
Subject
animal, bear, buffalo
figure, group
mythological
Credit
Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970
Catalogue Number
StS.05.02
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The creatures in Southern waters...

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Artist
Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)
Date
1978
Medium
ink; watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ArP.04.04
Description
The story - page 3:The creatures in southern waters are known for their cleverness. Jacques Cousteau has found them invaluable.
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Artist
Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)
Title
The creatures in Southern waters...
Date
1978
Medium
ink; watercolour on paper
Dimensions
17.5 x 17.5 cm
Description
The story - page 3:The creatures in southern waters are known for their cleverness. Jacques Cousteau has found them invaluable.
Subject
animal
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ArP.04.04
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Creatures must be careful...

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Artist
Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)
Date
1978
Medium
ink; watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ArP.04.07
Description
The story - page 6:Creatures must be careful if it should happen to get dark up there, they lose their gravity and go coasting through the night.
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Artist
Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)
Title
Creatures must be careful...
Date
1978
Medium
ink; watercolour on paper
Dimensions
17.5 x 17.5 cm
Description
The story - page 6:Creatures must be careful if it should happen to get dark up there, they lose their gravity and go coasting through the night.
Subject
animal
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ArP.04.07
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Creatures [Title Page]

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Artist
Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)
Date
1978
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
ArP.04.01
Description
Title page of the portfolio reads: Creatures by Patricia Alice Askren. A book of prints in limited edition. Published by Lettuce Press in the Spring of 1978.
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Artist
Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)
Title
Creatures [Title Page]
Date
1978
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
17.4 x 17.6 cm
Description
Title page of the portfolio reads: Creatures by Patricia Alice Askren. A book of prints in limited edition. Published by Lettuce Press in the Spring of 1978.
Subject
animal
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ArP.04.01
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Artist
David Muskego
Date
1972
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
MuD.02.01
Description
Dominant yellow/rust/blue on white ground symbolic painting; initialled brc DM/72 and written on back brace Custer's Last Stand (symbolic) by David Muskego, LeGoff Reserve, Alta. in Catharine's handwriting; also 109 Frank Kaquitts.
Artist
David Muskego
Title
Custer's Last Stand
Date
1972
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
20.6 x 45.8 cm
Description
Dominant yellow/rust/blue on white ground symbolic painting; initialled brc DM/72 and written on back brace Custer's Last Stand (symbolic) by David Muskego, LeGoff Reserve, Alta. in Catharine's handwriting; also 109 Frank Kaquitts.
Subject
symbolism
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
MuD.02.01
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Artist
Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)
Date
1978
Medium
ink; watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ArP.04.12
Description
This image has many people shaped figures with animal or bird type heads sitting on other animals or frogs that are racing each other. In the sky are flying fish in the shape of airplanes and it is raining from the clouds above. The race has started at the left side of the image and is headed towar…
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Artist
Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)
Title
A Day at the Races
Date
1978
Medium
ink; watercolour on paper
Dimensions
24.5 x 30.0 cm
Description
This image has many people shaped figures with animal or bird type heads sitting on other animals or frogs that are racing each other. In the sky are flying fish in the shape of airplanes and it is raining from the clouds above. The race has started at the left side of the image and is headed toward the right.
Subject
animal
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ArP.04.12
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A few of them I know...

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Artist
Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)
Date
1978
Medium
ink; watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ArP.04.09
Description
The story - page 8: A few of them I have know have a wonderful time changing personalities once in a while. I find the clothes all over everytime I go into the bathroom.
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Artist
Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)
Title
A few of them I know...
Date
1978
Medium
ink; watercolour on paper
Dimensions
17.5 x 17.5 cm
Description
The story - page 8: A few of them I have know have a wonderful time changing personalities once in a while. I find the clothes all over everytime I go into the bathroom.
Subject
animal
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
ArP.04.09
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Artist
Leslie Reid
Date
1975
Medium
serigraph on paper
Catalogue Number
ReL.04.01
Description
Colour: pale pink. One third the way up across the picture a horizon line of trees seen faintly against a flat pink background.
Artist
Leslie Reid
Title
Galetta
Date
1975
Medium
serigraph on paper
Dimensions
75.6 x 56.5 cm
Description
Colour: pale pink. One third the way up across the picture a horizon line of trees seen faintly against a flat pink background.
Subject
abstract
mythological
Credit
Gift of Jon Whyte, Banff, 1978
Catalogue Number
ReL.04.01
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Artist
Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)
Date
1972
Medium
lithograph on paper
Catalogue Number
StS.04.02
Description
Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are …
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Artist
Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)
Title
Ghost Dance
Date
1972
Medium
lithograph on paper
Dimensions
39.3 x 59.5 cm
Description
Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are three wide round bands going across the picture.
Subject
figure, male
group
mythological
Credit
Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
StS.04.02
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Artist
Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)
Date
1972
Medium
lithograph on paper
Catalogue Number
StS.04.06
Description
Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are …
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Artist
Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)
Title
Ghost Dance
Date
1972
Medium
lithograph on paper
Dimensions
59.6 x 39.2 cm
Description
Colour: black on white. A man stands at center. His arms reach out to the left. He has a feather in his hair and a ring in his ear. His lower body is transparent. Across the lower part of the picture behind him is a semi-circle of dancing figures going around to the left. Behind the man's head are three wide round bands going across the picture.
Subject
figure, male
group
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
StS.04.06
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How the Beaver got His Tail

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Artist
Wayne Matchatis
Date
1972
Medium
oil on canvas on cardboard
Catalogue Number
MtW.02.01
Description
Symbolic s-curve drawing of the evolution of how the beaver got his tail, black on white, some of the forms are filled in solid.
Artist
Wayne Matchatis
Title
How the Beaver got His Tail
Date
1972
Medium
oil on canvas on cardboard
Dimensions
30 x 40.5 cm
Description
Symbolic s-curve drawing of the evolution of how the beaver got his tail, black on white, some of the forms are filled in solid.
Subject
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
MtW.02.01
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Artist
Brian Joseph Grandbois
Date
1976
Medium
acrylic on canvas board
Catalogue Number
GrB.12.08
Description
Colours blue, black, orange, yellow, gold; a stylized head in left centre of picture; long blue and gold earrings; a continuous line runs to centre left of picture, all very stylized, could be a lance with feathers hanging from it; the design at his neck resembles a bird's head; the background is l…
Artist
Brian Joseph Grandbois
Title
Indian Head
Date
1976
Medium
acrylic on canvas board
Dimensions
35.5 x 45.5 cm
Description
Colours blue, black, orange, yellow, gold; a stylized head in left centre of picture; long blue and gold earrings; a continuous line runs to centre left of picture, all very stylized, could be a lance with feathers hanging from it; the design at his neck resembles a bird's head; the background is left white.
Subject
mythological
Indigenous
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
GrB.12.08
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Artist
Brian Joseph Grandbois
Date
1976
Medium
acrylic on canvas board
Catalogue Number
GrB.12.07
Description
Colours gold, black, orange, yellow, blue, green; a stylized bird with a bear inside; object in centre of picture rest of background left white.
Artist
Brian Joseph Grandbois
Title
Indian Legend
Date
1976
Medium
acrylic on canvas board
Dimensions
35.5 x 45.5 cm
Description
Colours gold, black, orange, yellow, blue, green; a stylized bird with a bear inside; object in centre of picture rest of background left white.
Subject
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
GrB.12.07
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Artist
Brian Joseph Grandbois
Date
1976
Medium
acrylic on canvas board
Catalogue Number
GrB.12.06
Description
A stylized open painting, colours yellow, orange, gold and black; symbols non-representational; background unpainted - left white.
Artist
Brian Joseph Grandbois
Title
Indian Legend
Date
1976
Medium
acrylic on canvas board
Dimensions
35.5 x 45.5 cm
Description
A stylized open painting, colours yellow, orange, gold and black; symbols non-representational; background unpainted - left white.
Subject
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
GrB.12.06
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Artist
Brian Joseph Grandbois
Date
1976
Medium
acrylic on canvas board
Catalogue Number
GrB.12.05
Description
Colours yellow, orange, gold and black stylized animals and birds; open drawing background left white.
Artist
Brian Joseph Grandbois
Title
Indian Legend
Date
1976
Medium
acrylic on canvas board
Dimensions
30.5 x 41.0 cm
Description
Colours yellow, orange, gold and black stylized animals and birds; open drawing background left white.
Subject
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
GrB.12.05
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Artist
Brian Joseph Grandbois
Date
1973
Medium
acrylic on paper
Catalogue Number
GrB.12.01
Description
General colour: red, yellow, blue, black on white - equal portions. A single figure showing a force looking right, above that a fish looking left and above that a bird, wings spread, and legs coming down, looking right. Symbolic meanings - mother and child on her back, fish with eggs and an eagle -…
Artist
Brian Joseph Grandbois
Title
LIfe Cycle
Date
1973
Medium
acrylic on paper
Dimensions
152 x 30.5 cm
Description
General colour: red, yellow, blue, black on white - equal portions. A single figure showing a force looking right, above that a fish looking left and above that a bird, wings spread, and legs coming down, looking right. Symbolic meanings - mother and child on her back, fish with eggs and an eagle - all powerful symbols.
Subject
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
Catalogue Number
GrB.12.01
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