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The Backyard Rink

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Artist: Linda Evans (1949 – , Canadian)

Date: 1987

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: EvL.04.02

Description: It is dusk and winter in the mountains. In the foreground is a fence with a willow tree to the right. There is a cat perched on the fence watching the children in the background playing hockey. There is a house with a lighted window to the left. A string of lights from the house across the yard …

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Artist: Linda Evans (1949 – , Canadian)

Title: The Backyard Rink

Date: 1987

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 42.0 x 58.0 cm

Description: It is dusk and winter in the mountains. In the foreground is a fence with a willow tree to the right. There is a cat perched on the fence watching the children in the background playing hockey. There is a house with a lighted window to the left. A string of lights from the house across the yard illuminates the ice rink which dominates the middle right. Three boys are playing hockey and a girl in a yellow snowsuit is sitting on the ice. Trees and mountains are in the background.

Subject: landscape; mountain; tree; winter ice rink; children; activity, ice hockey; animal, cat; architecture

Credit: Gift of Linda Evans, Canmore, 1993

Catalogue Number: EvL.04.02

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Banff Revisited IV

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Artist: Sylvia Richman

Date: 1982

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: RiS.03.01

Description: Mountain shapes in foreground, blue/purple, reds, green, brown, black outlines, top half of picture is multicoloured - red left center with yellows, browns and greens. Top right corner is very muted.

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Artist: Sylvia Richman

Title: Banff Revisited IV

Date: 1982

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 15.0 x 18.3 cm

Description: Mountain shapes in foreground, blue/purple, reds, green, brown, black outlines, top half of picture is multicoloured - red left center with yellows, browns and greens. Top right corner is very muted.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of Sylvia Richman, 1983

Catalogue Number: RiS.03.01

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Barrier Mountain

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Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1986

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.12

Description: A pencil drawing of Barrier mountain, no clouds or foreground. The back edge has a complete border of masking tape.

Artist: James McLaren Nicoll (1892 – 1986, Canadian)

Title: Barrier Mountain

Date: prior to 1986

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 22.7 x 30.1 cm

Description: A pencil drawing of Barrier mountain, no clouds or foreground. The back edge has a complete border of masking tape.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of James McLaren Nicoll, 1978

Catalogue Number: NiJ.03.12

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Before the White Man Came

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1969

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.30

Description: The painting is dominated by a large bison midcentre left grazing in a herd in the foothills. The mountains are behind under a dark blue and yellow sky.

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Before the White Man Came

Date: 1969

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 11.3 x 16.3 cm

Description: The painting is dominated by a large bison midcentre left grazing in a herd in the foothills. The mountains are behind under a dark blue and yellow sky.

Subject: animal, buffalo; landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; foothills

Credit: Gift of Unknown, 1978

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.30

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Big Rock at Lake O'Hara

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

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.217

Description: A rugged rocky cliff surrounded by evergreens is located along the shores of Lake O'Hara. It ranges in colour from purples to yellow and orange. Lake O'Hara is depicted in slid turquoise. The mountains appear overhead beyond the cliffs with cobalt blue peering through top centre.

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

Title: Big Rock at Lake O'Hara

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 30.3 cm

Description: A rugged rocky cliff surrounded by evergreens is located along the shores of Lake O'Hara. It ranges in colour from purples to yellow and orange. Lake O'Hara is depicted in slid turquoise. The mountains appear overhead beyond the cliffs with cobalt blue peering through top centre.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.217

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Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1964

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.06

Description: The general colours are green, blue, grey, brown, mauve, purple and white. The painting is divided in half for dominance. The bottom-half is the icy blue/green and white of the frozen lake; on the viewer’s far right there are two small evergreens in the snow. The top-half comprises the mountains an…

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier

Date: 1964

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 37.2 x 56.0 cm

Description: The general colours are green, blue, grey, brown, mauve, purple and white. The painting is divided in half for dominance. The bottom-half is the icy blue/green and white of the frozen lake; on the viewer’s far right there are two small evergreens in the snow. The top-half comprises the mountains and glacier; viewer’s right the scree slope and upward sweep of a mountain, moving to the left is the next mountain with its white and blue glacier top and blue sweep down the middle of the mountain. Lower mid-centre is the glacier snow field and to the left is a brown and white mountain. The gloomy sky is grey and white swirling clouds with hints of yellow through the grey and blue sky beyond.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Bow Glacier; Bow Lake; Janet Holly Middleton

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.06

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Burn Below Storm Mountain

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Date: 1989

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.01

Description: Colours are predominately black, green, white, grey, purple and blue. New-growth evergreens and charred black remnants of trees dominate the painting. Middle third of the painting through the charred trees is Storm Mountain range with mist and cloud obscuring tops of peaks; there is evidence of sno…

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Artist: Bern Smith (1928 – 2009, Canadian)

Title: Burn Below Storm Mountain

Date: 1989

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 29.5 x 34.5 cm

Description: Colours are predominately black, green, white, grey, purple and blue. New-growth evergreens and charred black remnants of trees dominate the painting. Middle third of the painting through the charred trees is Storm Mountain range with mist and cloud obscuring tops of peaks; there is evidence of snow on the mountain range and through the trees on the lower slopes. In the top-third, a stormy sky prevails; several dark clouds with vestiges of blue sky showing. The foreground of new-growth trees are painted in different shades of green, mostly light green, darker green in the background and on the slopes. Dominating the viewer’s left is a tree burned black reaching from top to bottom, charred black trees in the middle half reaching up to the mist, and charred black trees on the right reaching from the new-growth forest floor to the top of painting. Viewer’s eye is drawn into the mountain valley foreground to the wooded uphill of seemingly unburned slopes.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; Storm Mountain

Credit: Purchased from Brett Smith, 108 Mile Ranch, 2009

Catalogue Number: SmB.05.01

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C Level Lake, Bankhead, Cascade Mountain

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Artist: Dorothy V. Whyte

Date: 1967

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: WhD.02.01

Description: Colour: green, blue, purple. Purple bushes run along tthe lower edge. In he center banked on either side by green bushes is blue green water. The upper third is the far shore of trees and mountains in the distance. There is grey sky along the top.

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Artist: Dorothy V. Whyte

Title: C Level Lake, Bankhead, Cascade Mountain

Date: 1967

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.7 cm

Description: Colour: green, blue, purple. Purple bushes run along tthe lower edge. In he center banked on either side by green bushes is blue green water. The upper third is the far shore of trees and mountains in the distance. There is grey sky along the top.

Subject: landscape, lake; mountain; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Dorothy V. Whyte, West Vancouver, 1970

Catalogue Number: WhD.02.01

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Canadian Rockies

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Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Date: 1966

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.34

Description: Merry Xmas & Happy New Year from Mr. & Mrs. J. Simpson Sr. 1966-7.

Artist: James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian)

Title: Canadian Rockies

Date: 1966

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 17.5 x 11.0 cm

Description: Merry Xmas & Happy New Year from Mr. & Mrs. J. Simpson Sr. 1966-7.

Subject: landscape; mountain

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: SiJ.05.34

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Canmore, My Home Town

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Artist: Linda Evans (1949 – , Canadian)

Date: 1987

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: EvL.04.04

Description: A stylized view of Canmore. A road winds through the town leading to the mountain and train tracks where there is a train coming through town. A lone cross country skier is in the foreground. There are children fishing in the creek, pulling a sleigh and playing hockey on the right. There are child…

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Artist: Linda Evans (1949 – , Canadian)

Title: Canmore, My Home Town

Date: 1987

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 71.2 x 52.0 cm

Description: A stylized view of Canmore. A road winds through the town leading to the mountain and train tracks where there is a train coming through town. A lone cross country skier is in the foreground. There are children fishing in the creek, pulling a sleigh and playing hockey on the right. There are children watching ducks, playing with a dog, snowman and toboganning on the left.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Nakiska; town; Canmore; winter; activity: ski jumping; toboganing; cross country skiing

Credit: Gift of Linda Evans, Canmore, 1993

Catalogue Number: EvL.04.04

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Cascade

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1988

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.03

Description: The mountain, a realistic rendering of Cascade Mountain in Banff National Park, is light blue and grey, covers most of the picture, cloudy sky top edge, foreground left is a road, to the right of road is a clump of yellow trees among some evergreens and grasses

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Cascade

Date: 1988

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 42.2 x 58.1 cm

Description: The mountain, a realistic rendering of Cascade Mountain in Banff National Park, is light blue and grey, covers most of the picture, cloudy sky top edge, foreground left is a road, to the right of road is a clump of yellow trees among some evergreens and grasses

Subject: landscape; mountain; Cascade Mountain

Credit: Gift of Janet Holly Middleton, Banff, 1991

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.03

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Castle Mt.

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Artist: Dorothy Elsie Knowles Perehudoff (1927 – 2023, Canadian)

Date: 1984

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: KnD.05.05

Description: Castle mountain behind the Bow River with evergreens on either side

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Artist: Dorothy Elsie Knowles Perehudoff (1927 – 2023, Canadian)

Title: Castle Mt.

Date: 1984

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 55.9 x 76.2 cm

Description: Castle mountain behind the Bow River with evergreens on either side

Subject: castle mountain; bow river; mountain; landscape; evergreen

Credit: Gift of Dorothy Elsie Knowles Perehudoff, Saskatoon, 2016

Catalogue Number: KnD.05.05

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Cathedral Mountain in Wapta Muck

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

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.231

Description: Cathedral rises through the whisps of circling cloud covering. The green blue, splashes of paint at the base of the mountain gives the impression of a thick forest. Beige strokes of paint stretch up to the purplish mass of rock beyond the treeline. Catharine is encompassed by a grey sky.

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

Title: Cathedral Mountain in Wapta Muck

Date: 1968

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: Cathedral rises through the whisps of circling cloud covering. The green blue, splashes of paint at the base of the mountain gives the impression of a thick forest. Beige strokes of paint stretch up to the purplish mass of rock beyond the treeline. Catharine is encompassed by a grey sky.