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1908 Railway Tunnel (Continental Divide on back)

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Artist
Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)
Date
c. 1911
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
CoJ.03.322
Description
Front: the entrance to a railway tunnel is on the left, and muontain and trees surround it. Above the entrance is written “1908” and then his writing for a colour scheme in the brc.Back: mountains and trees surround a valley running through the picture. Writing in the brc: “VICTORIA RIDGE OVER 10…
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Artist
Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)
Title
1908 Railway Tunnel (Continental Divide on back)
Date
c. 1911
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
28.0 x 35.5 cm
Description
Front: the entrance to a railway tunnel is on the left, and muontain and trees surround it. Above the entrance is written “1908” and then his writing for a colour scheme in the brc.Back: mountains and trees surround a valley running through the picture. Writing in the brc: “VICTORIA RIDGE OVER 10,000feet, 33 BELOW zero, CONTINENTAL DIVIDE FEB 23”
Subject
landscape
Credit
Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
Catalogue Number
CoJ.03.322
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Alpine Flower (Epilobium palustre or Epilobium ciliatum?)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1903
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.26
Description
A single plant fills most of the paper; a thin stem from which emanates many smaller stems with leaves; small pink flowers and buds top the stems.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Alpine Flower (Epilobium palustre or Epilobium ciliatum?)
Date
1903
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25.5 x 18.0 cm
Description
A single plant fills most of the paper; a thin stem from which emanates many smaller stems with leaves; small pink flowers and buds top the stems.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.26
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Anemone parviflora (Alpine Anenome)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.24
Description
Two plants with brown roots; large leaves; a white flower with yellow bud.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Anemone parviflora (Alpine Anenome)
Date
1885 – 1905
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25.0 x 15.0 cm
Description
Two plants with brown roots; large leaves; a white flower with yellow bud.
Subject
botanical
flower
anenome
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.24
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Anemone patens (Prairie Crocus)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1906
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.22
Description
A single plant and 2 cuttings, light purple flowers in various stages.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Anemone patens (Prairie Crocus)
Date
1906
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25.5 x 17.5 cm
Description
A single plant and 2 cuttings, light purple flowers in various stages.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Leonard Leacock, 1968
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.22
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Arctostaphylos uva-ursi [Bear Berry]

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1904
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.35
Description
A stem with spoon-shaped green leaves, two bunches of round red berries, and small bunches of urn shaped white flowers with pink tips. Date and artist monogram are in the BRC. Written on verso in pencil is [alpina?] from Field. Flowers last of May. Fruit July or August + beautiful red leaves.” at t…
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi [Bear Berry]
Date
1904
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25.0 x 16.5 cm
Description
A stem with spoon-shaped green leaves, two bunches of round red berries, and small bunches of urn shaped white flowers with pink tips. Date and artist monogram are in the BRC. Written on verso in pencil is [alpina?] from Field. Flowers last of May. Fruit July or August + beautiful red leaves.” at the top and “arctostaphylos uva-urs: at bottom.
Subject
bearberry
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1969
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.35
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Aster bigelovii (Purple Tansy Aster)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1903
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.04
Description
A single, thick brown stem with long green bracted leaves, is topped with a cluster of purple flowers with yellow centres.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Aster bigelovii (Purple Tansy Aster)
Date
1903
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25.5 x 17.5 cm
Description
A single, thick brown stem with long green bracted leaves, is topped with a cluster of purple flowers with yellow centres.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.04
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Aster foliaceus (Leafy Aster)

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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Date
1903
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.18
Description
A thick green stem comes from the centre bottom of painting spreading out near the top with smaller stems which have delicate yellow and pink flowers; 6 yellow centers with pink fringes; others are pink buds.
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Artist
Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)
Title
Aster foliaceus (Leafy Aster)
Date
1903
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25.5 x 17.5 cm
Description
A thick green stem comes from the centre bottom of painting spreading out near the top with smaller stems which have delicate yellow and pink flowers; 6 yellow centers with pink fringes; others are pink buds.
Subject
botanical
flower
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
ScM.05.18
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Banff Springs Hotel 1903

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Artist
Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)
Date
1903
Medium
print on paper
Catalogue Number
BeS.04.01
Description
A giclee print repo of F.M. Bell-Smith’s “Banff Springs Hotel 1903” painting. The painting is a landscape of the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel nestled in the mountains. In the background are mountains with their peaks hidden in cloud. To the left of the hotel is the Bow River. In the foreground is a…
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Artist
Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)
Title
Banff Springs Hotel 1903
Date
1903
Medium
print on paper
Dimensions
30.1 x 45.8 cm
Description
A giclee print repo of F.M. Bell-Smith’s “Banff Springs Hotel 1903” painting. The painting is a landscape of the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel nestled in the mountains. In the background are mountains with their peaks hidden in cloud. To the left of the hotel is the Bow River. In the foreground is a field with a path on the left. On the path is a figure or possibly two figures (a woman and child?). The path leads to a line of trees and behind the trees a hotel with orange-brown roofing can be seen. The colour palette is primarily green, blue and yellow. The artist signature is in the bottom left hand corner, “FM Bell Smith”.
Subject
BSH
landscape
F.M. Bell-Smith
Credit
Gift of Kerry Guenter, 2007
Catalogue Number
BeS.04.01
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Banff Springs Hotel 1903

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Artist
Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)
Date
1903
Medium
print on paper
Catalogue Number
BeS.04.02
Description
A giclee print repo of F.M. Bell-Smith’s “Banff Springs Hotel 1903” painting. The painting is a landscape of the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel nestled in the mountains. In the background are mountains with their peaks hidden in cloud. To the left of the hotel is the Bow River. In the foreground is a…
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Artist
Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)
Title
Banff Springs Hotel 1903
Date
1903
Medium
print on paper
Dimensions
30.4 x 45.8 cm
Description
A giclee print repo of F.M. Bell-Smith’s “Banff Springs Hotel 1903” painting. The painting is a landscape of the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel nestled in the mountains. In the background are mountains with their peaks hidden in cloud. To the left of the hotel is the Bow River. In the foreground is a field with a path on the left. On the path is a figure or possibly two figures (a woman and child?). The path leads to a line of trees and behind the trees a hotel with orange-brown roofing can be seen. The colour palette is primarily green, blue and yellow. The artist signature is in the bottom left hand corner, “FM Bell Smith”.
Subject
Banff Springs Hotel
landscape
F.M. Bell-Smith
Credit
Gift of Kerry Guenter, 2007
Catalogue Number
BeS.04.02
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Banff Springs Hotel, Rocky Mountains 1887

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Artist
C. Firth
Date
1887
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
FiC.05.01
Description
Scene showing Banff springs hotel at right perched on a hillside. In the background the Bow River winds through a valley between Tunnel Mountain and Mt. Roundly. More mountains in distance. Trees in foreground. My. Roundly is hazy, almost unfinished in appearance.
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Artist
C. Firth
Title
Banff Springs Hotel, Rocky Mountains 1887
Date
1887
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
12.0 x 16.0 cm
Description
Scene showing Banff springs hotel at right perched on a hillside. In the background the Bow River winds through a valley between Tunnel Mountain and Mt. Roundly. More mountains in distance. Trees in foreground. My. Roundly is hazy, almost unfinished in appearance.
Subject
mountains
Banff
Bow River
Alberta
Banff Springs Hotel
Credit
Gift of Dorothy and Jim McLeod, Calgary, 2021
Catalogue Number
FiC.05.01
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Artist
Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)
Date
prior to 1905
Medium
photoengraving on paper
Catalogue Number
RuC.11.01
Description
Colour: greys as in a black and white photograph. At the waters edge in the center are two bull moose fighting. To the right, half way up in the background is a female moose looking on. Dead logs and grass fill the lower part of the picture.
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Artist
Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)
Title
Battling Moose
Date
prior to 1905
Medium
photoengraving on paper
Dimensions
30.1 x 50.4 cm
Description
Colour: greys as in a black and white photograph. At the waters edge in the center are two bull moose fighting. To the right, half way up in the background is a female moose looking on. Dead logs and grass fill the lower part of the picture.
Subject
landscape
animal, moose
Credit
Gift of W. J. Wright, Kamloops, 1969
Catalogue Number
RuC.11.01
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Artist
Unknown
Date
later than 1900
Catalogue Number
UnK.06.04
Description
A realistic rendering of a walking grizzly bear. His head is turned slightly to the left. Open mouth shows white teeth and a pink tongue.
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Artist
Unknown
Title
Bear
Date
later than 1900
Dimensions
13.0 x 8.0 x 24.0 cm
Description
A realistic rendering of a walking grizzly bear. His head is turned slightly to the left. Open mouth shows white teeth and a pink tongue.
Subject
amimal, bear
grizzly bear
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
UnK.06.04
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Artist
Unknown
Date
c. 1910
Catalogue Number
UnK.06.36
Description
A wooden sculpture of a bighorn sheep.
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Artist
Unknown
Title
Bighorn Sheep
Date
c. 1910
Dimensions
14.5 x 16.0 cm
Description
A wooden sculpture of a bighorn sheep.
Subject
animal
Bighorn Sheep
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
UnK.06.36
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Artist
Isapik (?)
Date
later than 1900
Catalogue Number
IsA.06.01
Description
Green stone, stylized bird, with head outstretched, may be swimming.
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Artist
Isapik (?)
Title
Bird
Date
later than 1900
Dimensions
6.0 x 5.7 x 14.5 cm
Description
Green stone, stylized bird, with head outstretched, may be swimming.
Subject
animal, bird
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
IsA.06.01
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Artist
Unknown
Date
1880 – 1900
Catalogue Number
UnK.06.06
Description
ornately carved ivory sculpture of a man and a bird under a tree.
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Artist
Unknown
Title
The Bird Tree
Date
1880 – 1900
Dimensions
20.8 x 4.7 x 10.0 cm
Description
ornately carved ivory sculpture of a man and a bird under a tree.
Subject
figure, male
animal
mythological
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
UnK.06.06
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Artist
Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)
Date
c. 1885
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
CoJ.03.289
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Artist
Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)
Title
Boats in Harbour
Date
c. 1885
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
8 x 19 cm
Subject
landscape
Credit
Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
Catalogue Number
CoJ.03.289
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Artist
John Donaldson Curren (1852 – 1940, Canadian)
Date
later than 1883
Medium
ink; watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
CuJ.05.01
Description
General colour: green, orange. Central image is a house. Half of the roof is tiled with orange brick. There are trees to the left and behind. In front are fields and a cross the bottom, is a brown fence. Sky is grey.
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Artist
John Donaldson Curren (1852 – 1940, Canadian)
Title
Bogside Scotland
Date
later than 1883
Medium
ink; watercolour on paper
Dimensions
14.25 x 18.75 cm
Description
General colour: green, orange. Central image is a house. Half of the roof is tiled with orange brick. There are trees to the left and behind. In front are fields and a cross the bottom, is a brown fence. Sky is grey.
Subject
landscape
architecture
rural
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1974
Catalogue Number
CuJ.05.01
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Date
1900 – 1965
Medium
pastel on paper
Catalogue Number
LaC.03.03
Description
General colour: white, blue, orange, green on brown. A mountain with purple, blue and orange slopes on the left. A bank of green on the right and snow and rock face above and center. Vague blue and cream shadings in the sky.
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Artist
Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)
Title
Bow Glacier
Date
1900 – 1965
Medium
pastel on paper
Dimensions
24.0 x 30.4 cm
Description
General colour: white, blue, orange, green on brown. A mountain with purple, blue and orange slopes on the left. A bank of green on the right and snow and rock face above and center. Vague blue and cream shadings in the sky.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
mountains
Credit
Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
Catalogue Number
LaC.03.03
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Artist
Marmaduke Matthews (1837 – 1913, British)
Date
c. 1887
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
MaM.02.01
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Artist
Marmaduke Matthews (1837 – 1913, British)
Title
Bow River
Date
c. 1887
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
33.0 x 67.8 cm
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
river
Credit
Purchased from Kennedy Galleries , New York, USA, 1980
Catalogue Number
MaM.02.01
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Artist
C. Firth
Date
1887
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
FiC.05.02
Description
Large river [The Bow River] with snow-capped mountains at back and stands of conifers on the banks. River winds from left foreground into right background. Stand of trees at right foreground.
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Artist
C. Firth
Title
Bow River NWT, 1887
Date
1887
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
12.0 x 16.0 cm
Description
Large river [The Bow River] with snow-capped mountains at back and stands of conifers on the banks. River winds from left foreground into right background. Stand of trees at right foreground.
Subject
mountains
Banff
Bow River
Alberta
Credit
Gift of Dorothy and Jim McLeod, Calgary, 2021
Catalogue Number
FiC.05.02
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