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Still Life #14
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmib.13.20
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.13.20
- Description
- The collage is made of three main parts on a gray background. The most dominate object is a celling lamp that is displayed just off-centered to the left. It hangs from a dominate upper right corner and there is a second object in the lower left corner, illuminated by the lamp.
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- Title
- Still Life #14
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.48 x 30.48 cm
- Description
- The collage is made of three main parts on a gray background. The most dominate object is a celling lamp that is displayed just off-centered to the left. It hangs from a dominate upper right corner and there is a second object in the lower left corner, illuminated by the lamp.
- Subject
- collage
- collection
- milne
- Credit
- Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.13.20
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Still Life #18
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmib.13.21
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.13.21
- Description
- The collage is made of three main parts on a yellow background. There is a dominate image of a mountain scenery on the left edge. Right of the mountain, off-centered is a obtuse angle made by two cut outs and below on the lower right corner is an image of a light bulb.
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- Title
- Still Life #18
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.48 x 30.48 cm
- Description
- The collage is made of three main parts on a yellow background. There is a dominate image of a mountain scenery on the left edge. Right of the mountain, off-centered is a obtuse angle made by two cut outs and below on the lower right corner is an image of a light bulb.
- Subject
- collage
- collection
- milne
- Credit
- Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.13.21
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Still Life #21
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmib.13.22
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.13.22
- Description
- The collage is made of four main parts on a yellow background. The right half of the image is dominated by three of the components, two of which are indistinguishable. One is an image, turned on its side of beaded belts that can be found in the Whyte House U1. Eight have been identified: 103.07.006…
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- Title
- Still Life #21
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.48 x 30.48 cm
- Description
- The collage is made of four main parts on a yellow background. The right half of the image is dominated by three of the components, two of which are indistinguishable. One is an image, turned on its side of beaded belts that can be found in the Whyte House U1. Eight have been identified: 103.07.0065, 103.07.0072, 103.07.0087, 103.07.0088, 103.07.0090, 103.07.0092, 103.07.0110 and 103.07.0113. The left image is of the cabin logs and has been decoratively cut.
- Subject
- collage
- collection
- milne
- Credit
- Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.13.22
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Still Life #22
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmib.13.23
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.13.23
- Description
- The collage is made of two main parts, the upper right corner and the lower left corner. The upper right has an abstracted cut out that runs along the top of the image. While the lower object has been identified as 104.20.0607 a-g. It is a Japanese Lacquer coaster set that can be found in the Whyte…
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- Title
- Still Life #22
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.48 x 30.48 cm
- Description
- The collage is made of two main parts, the upper right corner and the lower left corner. The upper right has an abstracted cut out that runs along the top of the image. While the lower object has been identified as 104.20.0607 a-g. It is a Japanese Lacquer coaster set that can be found in the Whyte House, U2 sw. It is pasted with its shadow and appears three-dimensional on the surface of the image.
- Subject
- collage
- collection
- milne
- Credit
- Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.13.23
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Still Life #23
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmib.13.24
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.13.24
- Description
- The collage is made of an arrangement of three cut outs on a beige background. The lowest one is a silhouette of houses. Next is a bright irregular shape extending over the mid line of the image. Finally, closest to the top there is what appears to be blue and brown boxes framing the upper right co…
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- Title
- Still Life #23
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.48 x 30.48 cm
- Description
- The collage is made of an arrangement of three cut outs on a beige background. The lowest one is a silhouette of houses. Next is a bright irregular shape extending over the mid line of the image. Finally, closest to the top there is what appears to be blue and brown boxes framing the upper right corner.
- Subject
- collage
- collection
- milne
- Credit
- Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.13.24
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Still Life #25
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmib.13.25
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.13.25
- Description
- The collage is a boarder of different images around a orange/yellow background. The upper right corner has a break in the boarder. There appears to be five separate images that make up the boarder. A rabbit silhouette protrudes into the negative space.
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- Title
- Still Life #25
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.48 x 30.48 cm
- Description
- The collage is a boarder of different images around a orange/yellow background. The upper right corner has a break in the boarder. There appears to be five separate images that make up the boarder. A rabbit silhouette protrudes into the negative space.
- Subject
- collage
- collection
- milne
- Credit
- Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.13.25
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Still Life #27
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactmib.13.26
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.13.26
- Description
- The collage is a boarder of different images around a green/yellow background. None of the artifacts depicted have been identified yet. The built scene appears to be a domestic atmosphere.
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- Title
- Still Life #27
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- collage on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.48 x 30.48 cm
- Description
- The collage is a boarder of different images around a green/yellow background. None of the artifacts depicted have been identified yet. The built scene appears to be a domestic atmosphere.
- Subject
- collage
- collection
- milne
- Credit
- Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.13.26
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- Date
- 2016
- Medium
- acrylic on wood
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.12.01
- Description
- The painting is made of two main parts, the upper right corner and the lower left corner. The upper right has an abstracted cut out that runs along the top of the image. While the lower object has been identified as 104.20.0607 a-g. It is a Japanese Lacquer coaster set that can be found in the Whyt…
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- Title
- Volume #11
- Date
- 2016
- Medium
- acrylic on wood
- Dimensions
- 76.2 x 76.2 cm
- Description
- The painting is made of two main parts, the upper right corner and the lower left corner. The upper right has an abstracted cut out that runs along the top of the image. While the lower object has been identified as 104.20.0607 a-g. It is a Japanese Lacquer coaster set that can be found in the Whyte House, U2 sw. It is pasted with its shadow and appears three-dimensional on the surface of the image. Wood gain is visible through the acrylic surface. The paint appears to have been watered down and absorbed into the pores of the wood.The back shows two labels, one from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies and the other from the Paul Kuhn Gallery, See description for more details. The Whyte label is from the Exhibition (See Exhibition tab) and the Paul Kuhn Gallery label is from when it was for sale at the Paul Kuhn Gallery.
- Subject
- collage
- collection
- milne
- acrylic
- Credit
- Purchased from Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- MiB.12.01
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Dorothy Carleton
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifacttsb.02.01%20a%2cb
- Artist
- Bev Tosh (1948 – , Canadian)
- Date
- 2014
- Medium
- oil on plywood
- Catalogue Number
- TsB.02.01 a,b
- Description
- (a) portrait of Dorothy Carleton facing the viewer, her face in the top 1/3 and shoulders fade into the prominent wood grain, the bottom 2/3 is lightly painted white dress on wood grain. There is ar rainbow in top left corner to represent Dorothy’s statement of “living at the end of the rainbow”, t…
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- Artist
- Bev Tosh (1948 – , Canadian)
- Title
- Dorothy Carleton
- Date
- 2014
- Medium
- oil on plywood
- Dimensions
- 121.92 x 31.43 cm
- Description
- (a) portrait of Dorothy Carleton facing the viewer, her face in the top 1/3 and shoulders fade into the prominent wood grain, the bottom 2/3 is lightly painted white dress on wood grain. There is ar rainbow in top left corner to represent Dorothy’s statement of “living at the end of the rainbow”, the street she lived on in Banff with her family according to painter Tosh.(b) 142 x 30 cm white silk panel with black typed inscription
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy Carleton, Banff, 2016
- Catalogue Number
- TsB.02.01 a,b
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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.
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy and Jim McLeod, Calgary, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- FiC.05.01
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Bow River NWT, 1887
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactfic.05.02
- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy and Jim McLeod, Calgary, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- FiC.05.02
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Silver City and Castle Mountain, B.C., 1887
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactfic.05.03
- Artist
- C. Firth
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- FiC.05.03
- Description
- Collection of low log buildings in an open field with A large mountain [Castle Mountain] rising up in the distance. Mountain appears hazy, almost unfinished.
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- Artist
- C. Firth
- Title
- Silver City and Castle Mountain, B.C., 1887
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.0 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- Collection of low log buildings in an open field with A large mountain [Castle Mountain] rising up in the distance. Mountain appears hazy, almost unfinished.
- Subject
- mountains
- castle mountain
- log cabins
- town
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy and Jim McLeod, Calgary, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- FiC.05.03
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Castle Mountain Siding
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactzoc.13.01
- Artist
- C. Zollern
- Date
- 1895
- Medium
- watercolour; photograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ZoC.13.01
- Description
- Colour: green, yellow. Three frames inside one. Top picture is a painting of a group of wooden buildings left of center with a flag pole (flag is flying) and antlers on the roof. In front are railway tracks with a team of four workers going along on a cart. Behind is a river with a man fishing in i…
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- Artist
- C. Zollern
- Title
- Castle Mountain Siding
- Date
- 1895
- Medium
- watercolour; photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 34.8 x 47.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: green, yellow. Three frames inside one. Top picture is a painting of a group of wooden buildings left of center with a flag pole (flag is flying) and antlers on the roof. In front are railway tracks with a team of four workers going along on a cart. Behind is a river with a man fishing in it on the right. On both sides of the river are trees and in the distance are mountains. Sky fills the top. The lower two pictures are photographs. The left is of the first Banff Springs Hotel and Rundle Mountain. The right is looking down the main street of Banff in 1895.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1974
- Catalogue Number
- ZoC.13.01
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Battling Moose
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactruc.11.01
- 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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- 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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- Date
- c. 2015
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.03.182
- Description
- two squares with circles
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- c. 2015
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 10.0 x 15.0 cm
- Description
- two squares with circles
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.03.182
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A Little Ditty Bird
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcoj.03.023
- Date
- c. 1895
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.023
- Description
- Drawing of a designed goblet standing fully in the center of the page. The area surrounding the goblet has been completely shaded in. The drawing au verso is a nose, ear, and hand study.“The dark background with the still darker goblet allowed Collings to achieve bright metallic-like highlights on …
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- Title
- A Little Ditty Bird
- Date
- c. 1895
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 19 x 12.5 cm
- Description
- Drawing of a designed goblet standing fully in the center of the page. The area surrounding the goblet has been completely shaded in. The drawing au verso is a nose, ear, and hand study.“The dark background with the still darker goblet allowed Collings to achieve bright metallic-like highlights on the embossed goblet. Barely visible, a tiny, whimsical “Ditty” bird peaks over the lip of the cup.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.023
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- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.097
- Description
- Profile portrait of the bust of a woman with her head gazing downwards.“The woman’s head is bowed as though she is preoccupied with something in front of her; perhaps it is the artist’s wife, Mellora, playing the piano. The woman’s eyes and mouth, and tendrils of hair at the nape are treated sensit…
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- Title
- Melora
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 25 x 18 cm
- Description
- Profile portrait of the bust of a woman with her head gazing downwards.“The woman’s head is bowed as though she is preoccupied with something in front of her; perhaps it is the artist’s wife, Mellora, playing the piano. The woman’s eyes and mouth, and tendrils of hair at the nape are treated sensitively while flowers in the background underscore her femininity.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- portrait
- Mellora Collings
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1984
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.097
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Maple Creek, Border of Alberta
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- Date
- c. 1875
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.43
- Description
- Scene of grassy field leading to the distance with the red roof of some houses seen.“This very yellow landscape appears to have been an early experiment, lacking Collings’ finesse and resulting in ‘rubbed’ paper in the left portion of the sky.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Rai…
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- Title
- Maple Creek, Border of Alberta
- Date
- c. 1875
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 13.5 x 19 cm
- Description
- Scene of grassy field leading to the distance with the red roof of some houses seen.“This very yellow landscape appears to have been an early experiment, lacking Collings’ finesse and resulting in ‘rubbed’ paper in the left portion of the sky.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.43
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- Date
- 1880
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.45
- Description
- Scene of a valley with outcroppings of dark rust/red rocks to the right and forground right, trees to the left middle, and mountains in the distance.
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- Title
- Marble Halls
- Date
- 1880
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 13.5 x 14 cm
- Description
- Scene of a valley with outcroppings of dark rust/red rocks to the right and forground right, trees to the left middle, and mountains in the distance.
- Subject
- landscape
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.45
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- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- graphite on paper board
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.071
- Description
- Drawing of a farming disc, the first few discs are show as the disappear into the piece, and the seat sits high up on the piece.“An unlikely combination of practical entrepreneur and preoccupied artist, Collings was involved with farm machinery sales between 1882 and 1888 in England. A writer who i…
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- Title
- Rusty Disk
- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- graphite on paper board
- Dimensions
- 25 x 30 cm
- Description
- Drawing of a farming disc, the first few discs are show as the disappear into the piece, and the seat sits high up on the piece.“An unlikely combination of practical entrepreneur and preoccupied artist, Collings was involved with farm machinery sales between 1882 and 1888 in England. A writer who interviewed the artist in 1924 had the impression that Collings envisaged farm equipment as means for creating an enormous painting-like but three-dimensional “landscape.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.03.071
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