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An Awkward Juxtaposition

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Artist: Unknown

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.11

Description: A man wearing a dark jacket, white pants, a hat down over his eyes, a cane and a cigarette in a long holder, stands facing left under a sign which reads Curios.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: An Awkward Juxtaposition

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 25.8 x 20.2 cm

Description: A man wearing a dark jacket, white pants, a hat down over his eyes, a cane and a cigarette in a long holder, stands facing left under a sign which reads Curios.

Subject: figure, male; cartoon

Credit: Gift of Iva (Mrs. Len) Smith, 1976

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.11

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An Old Whaling Vessel

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Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.15

Description: A large masted ship on the water; brc: “H.C. HAHN”; blc: “AN OLD WHALING VESSEL”.

Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Title: An Old Whaling Vessel

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 30.5 x 22.7 cm

Description: A large masted ship on the water; brc: “H.C. HAHN”; blc: “AN OLD WHALING VESSEL”.

Subject: water; ship; Herbert Hahn

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

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.15

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Animalia Capillary

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1988

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.21

Description: Twelve sketches of animals, each washed with a single colour watercolour.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Animalia Capillary

Date: 1988

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 37.2 x 17.9 cm

Description: Twelve sketches of animals, each washed with a single colour watercolour.

Subject: animals, whimsey

Credit: Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2003

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.21

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Boothbay

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Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.09

Description: A tree on a bank, water, and a town on the opposite shore; brc: “H.C. HAHN” ; blc: “BOOTHBAY”.

Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Title: Boothbay

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 22.7 x 30.5 cm

Description: A tree on a bank, water, and a town on the opposite shore; brc: “H.C. HAHN” ; blc: “BOOTHBAY”.

Subject: landscape; town; water; Herbert Hahn

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

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.09

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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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Buckport

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Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.13

Description: Water and a bridge in the foreground, town in the background; brc: “H.C. HAHN”; blc: “BUCKPORT”.

Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Title: Buckport

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 22.7 x 30.5 cm

Description: Water and a bridge in the foreground, town in the background; brc: “H.C. HAHN”; blc: “BUCKPORT”.

Subject: bridge; water; buildings; village; Herbert Hahn

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

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.13

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Cathedral Mountain

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Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.01

Description: Group of trees on the lower right in front of distant mountains.

Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Title: Cathedral Mountain

Date: 1928

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Description: Group of trees on the lower right in front of distant mountains.

Subject: landscape, mountains

Credit: Gift of Iva (Mrs. Len) Smith, 1976

Catalogue Number: HaH.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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Drawing

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Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.14

Description: A street with utility lines and buildings in the background; brc: “H.C. HAHN”; blc: “BOOTHBAY”.

Artist: Herbert C. Hahn (1907 – , American)

Title: Drawing

Date: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 30.5 x 22.7 cm

Description: A street with utility lines and buildings in the background; brc: “H.C. HAHN”; blc: “BOOTHBAY”.

Subject: buidings; town; Herbert Hahn

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

Catalogue Number: HaH.03.14

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John Brewster

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1870 – 1875

Medium: charcoal; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.01

Description: A head and shoulders portrait of John Brewster.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: John Brewster

Date: 1870 – 1875

Medium: charcoal; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 47.0 x 39.0 cm

Description: A head and shoulders portrait of John Brewster.

Subject: portrait; male

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.01

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Kalamalka Lake

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

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.05

Description: Dominant colours are blue, green, yellow, brown, mauve, purple and grey. The painting is dominated by the lake shore foreground: on viewer’s right the tip of a grey, gnarled dead tree with branches; the tree appears to have gouache painted on to give it texture; a yellow and orange-coloured rock mi…

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

Title: Kalamalka Lake

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 38.0 x 55.0 cm

Description: Dominant colours are blue, green, yellow, brown, mauve, purple and grey. The painting is dominated by the lake shore foreground: on viewer’s right the tip of a grey, gnarled dead tree with branches; the tree appears to have gouache painted on to give it texture; a yellow and orange-coloured rock mid-centre to the right; on viewer’s left wildflowers, the dead tree trunk and the bush above. Grey and brown pebbles and sand and the top of the tree in the water make up the foreground on the extreme right. The dead tree appears to be resting on the yellow and orange-coloured rock. There are yellow flowers with brown centres (Black Eyed Susans) and green leaves below the tree trunk, viewer’s left, and a bush with big brown and green leaves above that. The blue-green calm lake lies beyond the tree trunk and on the opposite shore are blue, grey and purple hills and a snow-peaked mountain; to the viewer’s extreme right is a green and purple hill. The sky above is barely discernable and is a mixture of blue and mauve.

Subject: landscape; lake; Kalamalka Lake; Janet Holly Middleton

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.05

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Lake O’Hara

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

Date: 1978

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.07

Description: A watercolour depicting a mountain landscape, with a lake below (Lake O’Hara), painted in a very loose and free style. The bottom third is a blue lake with grey and white reflections from the banks, mountains, talus slopes, and trees above. The mid two-thirds depicts sparse trees, trail, and slopes…

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

Title: Lake O’Hara

Date: 1978

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 55.0 x 71.0 cm

Description: A watercolour depicting a mountain landscape, with a lake below (Lake O’Hara), painted in a very loose and free style. The bottom third is a blue lake with grey and white reflections from the banks, mountains, talus slopes, and trees above. The mid two-thirds depicts sparse trees, trail, and slopes to the left, waterfalls (Seven Veils), snow-covered mountain with glacier in the background (Mt. Oesa), mid-to-far right a mountain in varying shades of grey rising to almost the top of the painting (Opabin Mountain). Top portion blue sky with clouds. The extreme bottom and right hand side is left mostly unpainted.Signed, in script, blue watercolour paint bottom right hand corner “Middleton 78”. The lake bleeds into the signature.

Subject: landscape; mountain; lake; Lake O’Hara; Janet Holly Middleton

Credit: Purchased from Willock & Sax, 2013

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.07

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Mount Assiniboine

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

Date: 1976

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.02

Description: The tip of Mount Assiniboine is in cloud; the sky is cloudy with pink and light yellow to the right and light blue/green to the left; there is quite a bit of snow but the mountain to the right is green and the mountain on the left is in the purple/green range. A blue/green lake is in the immediate …

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

Title: Mount Assiniboine

Date: 1976

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 42.2 x 58.1 cm

Description: The tip of Mount Assiniboine is in cloud; the sky is cloudy with pink and light yellow to the right and light blue/green to the left; there is quite a bit of snow but the mountain to the right is green and the mountain on the left is in the purple/green range. A blue/green lake is in the immediate foreground.

Subject: landscape, mountain; landscape, Mount Assiniboine

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

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.02

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Mount Rundle

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

Date: 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.04

Description: Dominant colours are purple, green, blue, brown, grey, yellow, and white. The painting is dominated by Mount Rundle and a cloud-filled blue sky. The foreground is grey rocks, a dead tree with the brown tree trunk and branches reaching right, above that coniferous trees viewer’s right; the middle fo…

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

Title: Mount Rundle

Date: 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 50.5 x 70.5 cm

Description: Dominant colours are purple, green, blue, brown, grey, yellow, and white. The painting is dominated by Mount Rundle and a cloud-filled blue sky. The foreground is grey rocks, a dead tree with the brown tree trunk and branches reaching right, above that coniferous trees viewer’s right; the middle foreground is made up of grey pebbles and small rocks with coniferous trees behind, the sun is shining on the mid- foreground and the viewer’s right highlighting the ground and trees. To the viewer’s right there is a pile of grey, brown, and beige rocks with two coniferous trees above and some yellow and brown bushes to the right of that; to the very far right the Bow River is visible and also above the bushes it is snaking its way through the valley toward Canmore. A purple-hued with some blue Tunnel (Buffalo) Mountain is in front of Mount Rundle. Mount Rundle is purple, grey, blue, pink and white with green patches to the right. The ranges on the viewer’s left are purple, grey and white and to the right of Mount Rundle they are blue, grey and white. The sky above which comprises one-third of the painting has more clouds than blue sky. The clouds are white, grey, brown growing into purple, grey and yellowish hues to the viewer’s right.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Rundle Mountain; Janet Holly Middleton

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.04

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Neolithic Age

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1899

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.06

Description: Colour: black on white; a wounded bison with three arrows in his side and blood coming out of his mouth, kneels in the center of the picture;to the left and right are large leafless trees; a huge sun sits halfway on the horizon of rolling hills; in the background to the right, six figures with stic…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Neolithic Age

Date: 1899

Medium: ink; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 10.7 x 18.4 cm

Description: Colour: black on white; a wounded bison with three arrows in his side and blood coming out of his mouth, kneels in the center of the picture;to the left and right are large leafless trees; a huge sun sits halfway on the horizon of rolling hills; in the background to the right, six figures with sticks run up from behind a tree; to the left, in the background are two bears.