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Untitled [Moon through Branches]

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Artist: Unknown

Date: n.d.

Medium: ink and colour on silk; paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.09

Description: Colour: black; green; white; two branches of a tree in bloom across the lower left corner in front of a huge full moon.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Untitled [Moon through Branches]

Date: n.d.

Medium: ink and colour on silk; paper

Dimensions: 27.0 x 24.0 cm

Description: Colour: black; green; white; two branches of a tree in bloom across the lower left corner in front of a huge full moon.

Subject: landscape; night time

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.09

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Untitled

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.58

Description: A watercolour painting with a lake foreground, building mid-left, red roofs, grey with yellow, a mountain behind the buildings, one-third rock face, the rest green vegetation with some rock face showing through. Mid-to left green vegetation with some rocks visible.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 30.3 x 45.5 cm

Description: A watercolour painting with a lake foreground, building mid-left, red roofs, grey with yellow, a mountain behind the buildings, one-third rock face, the rest green vegetation with some rock face showing through. Mid-to left green vegetation with some rocks visible.

Subject: landscape; mountains; lake; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.58

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Cannery at Kimsquit, Mouth of Dean River, B.C.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1942

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.59

Description: A watercolour on soft board; blue water, brown dock and white and brown buildings in the foreground; a shore with green trees behind. A massive mountain looms behind. There are vestiges of snow on top and water coming down a canyon viewer’s left. The sky is a dull blue colour.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Cannery at Kimsquit, Mouth of Dean River, B.C.

Date: 1942

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 50.6 x 35.5 cm

Description: A watercolour on soft board; blue water, brown dock and white and brown buildings in the foreground; a shore with green trees behind. A massive mountain looms behind. There are vestiges of snow on top and water coming down a canyon viewer’s left. The sky is a dull blue colour.

Subject: landscape; mountains; Pacific; architecture, urban; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.59

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McFarlane's Flat, Halfway River

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1934

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.60

Description: Foreground flat brown and green vegetation with tepee poles mid-left, beyond a low building viewer’s right. Trees and blue foothills/mountain viewer’s left, a hill with sparse trees viewer’s right. A dark cloudy sky above.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: McFarlane's Flat, Halfway River

Date: 1934

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 34.3 x 48.4 cm

Description: Foreground flat brown and green vegetation with tepee poles mid-left, beyond a low building viewer’s right. Trees and blue foothills/mountain viewer’s left, a hill with sparse trees viewer’s right. A dark cloudy sky above.

Subject: landscape; mountains; buildings; teepee poles; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.60

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Kimsquit

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.61

Description: Foreground is water, docks and white and red buildings mid-to viewer’s right, reflections in water of red roofs. A wooded spit of land, viewer’s right, mauve mountains behind with vestiges of snow, blue sky.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Kimsquit

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 36.5 x 54.8 cm

Description: Foreground is water, docks and white and red buildings mid-to viewer’s right, reflections in water of red roofs. A wooded spit of land, viewer’s right, mauve mountains behind with vestiges of snow, blue sky.

Subject: landscape; mountains; water, Pacific Ocean; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.61

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Finlay Forks, B.C.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1954

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.62

Description: Foreground blue water; what appears to be a small island mid-centre, a pile of brush in the water viewer’s right. Black tree trunks and some sparse vegetation beyond, two buildings viewer’s left with blue mountains beyond; a dark grey sky overhead.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Finlay Forks, B.C.

Date: 1954

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 39.2 x 56.8 cm

Description: Foreground blue water; what appears to be a small island mid-centre, a pile of brush in the water viewer’s right. Black tree trunks and some sparse vegetation beyond, two buildings viewer’s left with blue mountains beyond; a dark grey sky overhead.

Subject: landscape; river; buildings; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.62

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Running the Lower Grand Rapids, Athabasca R.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.63

Description: Foreground, green, white, grey choppy water with rocks and sparse evergreens among rocky banks. Four figures in a boat are mid-to viewer’s right., a dark, gloomy sky overhead.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Running the Lower Grand Rapids, Athabasca R.

Date: 1960

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 39.1 x 56.5 cm

Description: Foreground, green, white, grey choppy water with rocks and sparse evergreens among rocky banks. Four figures in a boat are mid-to viewer’s right., a dark, gloomy sky overhead.

Subject: landscape; river, Athabasca; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.63

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Fraser River Above Lillooet, B.C.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1950

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.64

Description: A choppy river running between rocky banks viewer’s left, rocks and sparse trees and vegetation viewer’s right, mountains in middle, cloudy sky overhead.

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Fraser River Above Lillooet, B.C.

Date: 1950

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 39.4 x 56.5 cm

Description: A choppy river running between rocky banks viewer’s left, rocks and sparse trees and vegetation viewer’s right, mountains in middle, cloudy sky overhead.

Subject: landscape; mountains; river, Fraser; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.64

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Innesbruck M. Theresienstrasse

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Artist: Unknown

Date: n.d.

Medium: etching on cloth

Catalogue Number: UnK.04.02

Description: A street scene in Innesbruck, Austria. Blue sky across top of picture, purple mountain range with some snow and a smaller green mountain backdrops the street scene. A tall statue is in the centre of the street.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Innesbruck M. Theresienstrasse

Date: n.d.

Medium: etching on cloth

Dimensions: 17.0 x 20.3 cm

Description: A street scene in Innesbruck, Austria. Blue sky across top of picture, purple mountain range with some snow and a smaller green mountain backdrops the street scene. A tall statue is in the centre of the street.

Subject: architecture, urban; mountains; landscape

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.04.02

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Old Banff Springs Hotel

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Artist: Unknown

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on wood

Catalogue Number: UnK.02.11

Description: A painting on a solid piece of wood of the early Banff Springs Hotel, probably 1888 circa. The Bow River runs in the left foreground of picture. It is a realistic painting of the mountains, Sulphur, Goat and the back of Rundle. The colours are darkish greens, blue river, the sky is yellowish (the …

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Old Banff Springs Hotel

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on wood

Dimensions: 37.3 x 115.2 cm

Description: A painting on a solid piece of wood of the early Banff Springs Hotel, probably 1888 circa. The Bow River runs in the left foreground of picture. It is a realistic painting of the mountains, Sulphur, Goat and the back of Rundle. The colours are darkish greens, blue river, the sky is yellowish (the sky looks unfinished).

Subject: landscape; Banff Springs Hotel; Canadian Rockies; architecture; river

Credit: Purchased from Thomas N. Lackey, Halifax, 1983

Catalogue Number: UnK.02.11

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Small lake in Mountains

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Artist: Unknown

Date: 1978

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.13

Description: A pencil drawing of a small lake in the foreground, the immediate foreground is marshy and some trees, this surrounds the lake; mountains in background; a few clouds indicated. A small brass plaque with the drawing reads: To Lillian Gest In Appreciation The Lake O'Hara Trails Club 1979.

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Small lake in Mountains

Date: 1978

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 22.5; 26.7 x 26.7; 32.1 cm

Description: A pencil drawing of a small lake in the foreground, the immediate foreground is marshy and some trees, this surrounds the lake; mountains in background; a few clouds indicated. A small brass plaque with the drawing reads: To Lillian Gest In Appreciation The Lake O'Hara Trails Club 1979.

Subject: landscape; mountains; lake

Credit: Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1986

Catalogue Number: UnK.03.13

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Watermill and Waterfall

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Artist: Unknown

Date: c. 1930

Medium: ink and colour on silk; card

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.03

Description: A watermill is in top right of picture, a stone basement, wooden building with a large waterwheel, a waterfall comes tumbling down from wheel; a grassy slope is in the foreground, lake in foreground; a waterfall tumbles down from left top of picture; the paper is gold trimmed; the foldover paper pr…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Watermill and Waterfall

Date: c. 1930

Medium: ink and colour on silk; card

Dimensions: 27.2 x 24.1 cm

Description: A watermill is in top right of picture, a stone basement, wooden building with a large waterwheel, a waterfall comes tumbling down from wheel; a grassy slope is in the foreground, lake in foreground; a waterfall tumbles down from left top of picture; the paper is gold trimmed; the foldover paper presentation cover has Japanese writing: Square Paper for Drawing/painting (translation by Maskao Tani, 8/86). A business card was enclosed in the case: printed: Tsunejiro Miyaoka; handwritten: To Mr. Jack White with kind remembrances, Banff.July 24th 1935.

Subject: landscape; waterfall

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.05.03

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Kabuki Theatre Poster

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Artist: Unknown

Date: n.d.

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: UnK.04.08

Description: Small Kabuki Theatre Poster. A Man stands with legs far apart leaning back far to the right with his body and face facing left. He holds an umbrella that is cropped off by the edge of the print. He stands on a green ground. The backgroung is dark and features an almost black sky, a darkbrown hi…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Kabuki Theatre Poster

Date: n.d.

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 24.5 x 18.5 cm

Description: Small Kabuki Theatre Poster. A Man stands with legs far apart leaning back far to the right with his body and face facing left. He holds an umbrella that is cropped off by the edge of the print. He stands on a green ground. The backgroung is dark and features an almost black sky, a darkbrown hill, a small blue mountain, and a river. There are 2 text panels down the left side. Translator of print commented : Drawn by: Ichi bai tei(?), sai(?) ho. In images of the floating world Ichibaishi is also known as Yoshimine.