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- Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian) 103
- Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian) 86
- Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian) 62
- Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian) 24
- Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian) 15
- Bradford Washburn (1910 – , American) 8
- Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian) 7
- Phil Michaud (1935 – 2010, Canadian) 7
- Wilfred Lambert 7
- David More (1947 – , Canadian) 6
- Leonard Moore Davis (1864 – 1938, American) 6
- Tom Lonsdale (1886 – 1975, Canadian) 6
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- EvL.04.05
- Description
- The Banff train station is in the foreground with a Mountie directing a tourist. In the backgound is the Brewster bus station and to the right is a moose and beaver dam in Vermilion Lake. The many buildings from the town of Banff are in the background along with people engaged in various activities…
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- Title
- Banff, Canada
- Date
- 1987
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 61.0 x 45.0 cm
- Description
- The Banff train station is in the foreground with a Mountie directing a tourist. In the backgound is the Brewster bus station and to the right is a moose and beaver dam in Vermilion Lake. The many buildings from the town of Banff are in the background along with people engaged in various activities such as fishing and boating on the Bow River, bicycling etc.. The upper half is Rundle Mountain and the Banff Springs Hotel and the Sulphur Mountain Gondola Lift.
- Subject
- landscape
- town
- Banff
- road
- mountains
- buildings
- transportation
- train
- bus
- automobile
- carriage
- animal
- horse
- people
- tourist
- Mountie
- Credit
- Gift of Linda Evans, Canmore, 1993
- Catalogue Number
- EvL.04.05
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Banff Hotel, Alberta
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- Artist
- B. E. Neville
- Date
- prior to 1991
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- NeB.05.01
- Description
- The foreground is vegetation, rocks with coniferous trees up to tlc. Centre of picture is a multi-roofed building. Background is mountain range and grey sky.
- Artist
- B. E. Neville
- Title
- Banff Hotel, Alberta
- Date
- prior to 1991
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.0 x 34.9 cm
- Description
- The foreground is vegetation, rocks with coniferous trees up to tlc. Centre of picture is a multi-roofed building. Background is mountain range and grey sky.
- Credit
- Gift of Jon Whyte, Banff, 1992
- Catalogue Number
- NeB.05.01
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Banff Indian Days Camp
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.02.040
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil and mixed media on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.040
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- Title
- Banff Indian Days Camp
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- oil and mixed media on canvas
- Dimensions
- 53.4 x 63.7 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.02.040
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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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Banff Winter Carnival
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.03.834
- Date
- 1924 – 1925
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.834
- Description
- In the top section of the poster design there is a cartoon drawing of a man in a suit jacket, vest, and tie flying through the air on skis. He has no poles in his hands suggesting that he could be ski jumping. Below the man there is three distinct mountains, with clouds behind them, and trees frami…
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- Title
- Banff Winter Carnival
- Date
- 1924 – 1925
- Medium
- graphite; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 45.1 x 29.7 cm
- Description
- In the top section of the poster design there is a cartoon drawing of a man in a suit jacket, vest, and tie flying through the air on skis. He has no poles in his hands suggesting that he could be ski jumping. Below the man there is three distinct mountains, with clouds behind them, and trees framing the the edges of the drawing. Below the drawing it says “WITH APOLOGIES TO DEBECK”, “Peter White - 1924”, and “Banff WINTER CARNIVAL - FEBRUARY 7-14. 1925 - The Peoples Playground SKI-ING SWIMMING SKATING TOBOGGANING, ETC.” Surrounding the inscription it is bordered with 3mm design: two lines running parallel to each other with circles drawn in the middle.
- Subject
- winter
- sports
- snow
- mountains
- Rocky Mountains
- Banff
- Winter Carnival
- skiing
- swimming
- skating
- tobogganing
- skijumping
- man
- suit
- suit jacket
- vest
- tie
- skis
- trees
- clouds
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 0
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.834
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B.C. Sketches, 1960
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- Date
- n.d.
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.09.08
- Description
- A spiral yellow-covered sketchbook with “REEVES SERIES 92 “SKETCHBOOK” “Richmond” Water Colour Paper etc. Printed in red water colour “B.C. Sketches, 1960 By E. Lamarque”
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- Title
- B.C. Sketches, 1960
- Date
- n.d.
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 22.8 cm
- Description
- A spiral yellow-covered sketchbook with “REEVES SERIES 92 “SKETCHBOOK” “Richmond” Water Colour Paper etc. Printed in red water colour “B.C. Sketches, 1960 By E. Lamarque”
- Subject
- landscape
- water
- mountains
- buildings
- Ernest Lamarque
- Credit
- Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.09.08
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Beginning of Winter, Old Fort Wrigley, MacKenzie River
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlae.05.50
- Date
- 1921
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.50
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- Title
- Beginning of Winter, Old Fort Wrigley, MacKenzie River
- Date
- 1921
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.1 x 17.9 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.50
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Below Bow Falls
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactwyp.01.149
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.149
- Description
- Colour: green, grey, blue. The lower area is a river running from the lower right corner up left to center. Snow banks on either side give way to a rocky hillside on the left and a row of trees to the right. Behind in the centre is a treed slope going right to mountain and left to a distant mountai…
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- Title
- Below Bow Falls
- Date
- 1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 21.6 x 16.8 cm
- Description
- Colour: green, grey, blue. The lower area is a river running from the lower right corner up left to center. Snow banks on either side give way to a rocky hillside on the left and a row of trees to the right. Behind in the centre is a treed slope going right to mountain and left to a distant mountain. Blue sky along the top.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountains
- falls
- winter
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.149
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Big Bar, Muskwa River
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactlae.05.46
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.46
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- Title
- Big Bar, Muskwa River
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.3 x 30.3 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.46
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Blondie and Friend Icefields Parkway 1991
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- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- acrylic; charcoal on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.12.05
- Description
- Two bears done in charcoal and outlined in red paint walk in front of mountains that are in the background. The mountain range is outlined in white paint.
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- Title
- Blondie and Friend Icefields Parkway 1991
- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- acrylic; charcoal on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.0 x 73.0 cm
- Description
- Two bears done in charcoal and outlined in red paint walk in front of mountains that are in the background. The mountain range is outlined in white paint.
- Subject
- mountains
- animal, bears
- Maureen Enns
- Credit
- Gift of Maureen Enns, Cochrane, 2010
- Catalogue Number
- EnM.12.05
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal; fabric
- Catalogue Number
- 108.04.1152 a-n
- Description
- One canvas bag containing various sizes of nails “clinkers” for climbing boots:(a) 48 three-edged nails: spike 3.3 cm, 4.0x2.0w cm(b) 51 three-edged nails: spike 2.9 cm, 3.40x2.0w cm(c) 9 three-edged nails: spike 2.7 cm, 3.20x2.0w cm(d) 31 three-edged nails: spike 2.0 cm, 3.0x2.0w cm(e) 23 three-ed…
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- Title
- Boot Nail
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal; fabric
- Description
- One canvas bag containing various sizes of nails “clinkers” for climbing boots:(a) 48 three-edged nails: spike 3.3 cm, 4.0x2.0w cm(b) 51 three-edged nails: spike 2.9 cm, 3.40x2.0w cm(c) 9 three-edged nails: spike 2.7 cm, 3.20x2.0w cm(d) 31 three-edged nails: spike 2.0 cm, 3.0x2.0w cm(e) 23 three-edged nails: spike 1.60cm, 2.20x1.50w cm (f) 380 five-edged “mugger” nails: spike 1.2 cm, 1.5x1.0w cm(g) 52 “TRICOUNI BREV+ 613 SUISSE” edge nails (10 singles and 3 rolls in string @14)(h) 19 Bernina sole nails(i) 15 “TRICOUNI BREV+No 5 SUISSE” 1.5x2.5w cm (for sole edge)(j) 13 (9 black, 4 grey) “No 5 DEPOSE TRICOUNI” edge nails(k) 11 “BREV+TRICOUNI No 7-13” plates for heel edges, “SUISSE” on the plate 4.8wx4.0 lengthx3.0 h (l) 62 nails that resemble a saddle “TRICOUNI” on one side, “N.1 BREV.+” (m) 38 2.0x2.5w two-pronged edge nails 2.50lx1.4wx2.0 cm high(n) 6 similar shape but not edge nails, smaller two-pronged 2.4lx1.2wx2.3high The unbleached canvas bag measures 33cmx30.0cm wide. It is one piece of lightweight canvas folded and sewn on the side and bottom. There is a piece of cotton twill sewn into the side seam creating a tie to close the bag.
- Credit
- Gift of Bob and Marjory Hind, Calgary, 1999
- Catalogue Number
- 108.04.1152 a-n
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- 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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- 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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- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.07
- Description
- Blue green lake along lower edge. Large brown-grey mountains with strip of trees at lakeshore in background. Glacier at centre left with waterfall. Fluffy clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner. On back “Bow Lake. $25.00. July, 1969. Frank Kaquitts Morley Alberta. Indian nam…
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- Title
- Bow Lake
- Date
- 1969
- Medium
- oil on canvas board
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- Blue green lake along lower edge. Large brown-grey mountains with strip of trees at lakeshore in background. Glacier at centre left with waterfall. Fluffy clouds in blue sky above. “SITTING WIND” in lower right corner. On back “Bow Lake. $25.00. July, 1969. Frank Kaquitts Morley Alberta. Indian name Sitting Wind.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WiS.02.07
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- Date
- 1963
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.06
- Description
- General colour: pencil on white. Two points of land come in from left and right respectively with water in between and behind. The far shore starts quarter way up and becomes a mountain left of enter and right banks up each side. Sketchy clouds appear to be raining left and right.
- Title
- Bow Lake
- Date
- 1963
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 32.3 x 40.1 cm
- Description
- General colour: pencil on white. Two points of land come in from left and right respectively with water in between and behind. The far shore starts quarter way up and becomes a mountain left of enter and right banks up each side. Sketchy clouds appear to be raining left and right.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountains
- lake
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.03.06
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Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier
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- Date
- prior to 1965
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.28
- Description
- In the foreground on the left is a small group of trees and rocky ground leading down to a waters edge. In the mid-ground on the right is another group of trees and ground that meets the water. Just behind the trees is Bow Lake and in the background are snow capped mountains and Crowfoot Glacier. T…
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- Title
- Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier
- Date
- prior to 1965
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Description
- In the foreground on the left is a small group of trees and rocky ground leading down to a waters edge. In the mid-ground on the right is another group of trees and ground that meets the water. Just behind the trees is Bow Lake and in the background are snow capped mountains and Crowfoot Glacier. The sky has many gray clouds with small areas of blue sky showing through.
- Credit
- Gift of James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.28
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Bow Lake and Mount Thompson
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- Date
- prior to 1965
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.27
- Description
- The sky in this watercolour has many white and gray clouds. The mid section of the painting exhibits Mt. Thompson with snow. At the base of the mountain and off to the left side of the image is Bow Lake. The foreground has a small group of trees in the center and yellow grass, rocks and patches of …
- Title
- Bow Lake and Mount Thompson
- Date
- prior to 1965
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Description
- The sky in this watercolour has many white and gray clouds. The mid section of the painting exhibits Mt. Thompson with snow. At the base of the mountain and off to the left side of the image is Bow Lake. The foreground has a small group of trees in the center and yellow grass, rocks and patches of snow on both sides.
- Credit
- Gift of James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.27
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Bow Lake Boler
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- Date
- 2013
- Medium
- camera obscura on acid-free fibre paper
- Catalogue Number
- SmC.18.02
- Description
- Coloured image of boler interior. browns, greens and blues colour the walls with a projected image of the exterior surroundings. Two windows appear to show the exterior landscape. Landscape is a mountainous terrain with large body of water and some ever green trees. Interior furniture includes two …
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- Title
- Bow Lake Boler
- Date
- 2013
- Medium
- camera obscura on acid-free fibre paper
- Dimensions
- 121.92 x 152.4 cm
- Description
- Coloured image of boler interior. browns, greens and blues colour the walls with a projected image of the exterior surroundings. Two windows appear to show the exterior landscape. Landscape is a mountainous terrain with large body of water and some ever green trees. Interior furniture includes two benches, fold down table and box in bottom right corner. The table holds an unfolded map, some books and a mug. The reflected image on the walls is projected upside down because it is done using a camera obscura technique. This print belongs to the 76 Boler series. “Nearly true stories of a wandering 76 Boler”
- Subject
- mountains
- Bow Lake
- camera obscura
- boler
- Credit
- Gift of Colin Smith , Calgary , 2018
- Catalogue Number
- SmC.18.02
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Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier
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- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- print on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.04.36
- Description
- A mountain landscape silkscreen print. In the background there is a grey-brown sky and a blue mountain with white snow accents dominating the right side of the image and to the left of the mountain is another smaller peak. Between the two mountains is a glacier. In front of the glacier and mountain…
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- Title
- Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- print on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.5 x 34.5 cm
- Description
- A mountain landscape silkscreen print. In the background there is a grey-brown sky and a blue mountain with white snow accents dominating the right side of the image and to the left of the mountain is another smaller peak. Between the two mountains is a glacier. In front of the glacier and mountains is a light blue lake and in the foreground in the right corner are two dark green coniferous trees. The print is primarily blues, greens and white with about 10 colours used in total. Under the image in the bottom left corner written in pencil is, “Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier” and in the bottom rhc is the artist signature.
- Credit
- Gift of Joanne Thomas , Vancouver, 2012
- Catalogue Number
- MiJ.04.36
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Bow River Boat House
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- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- oil on canvas on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LoT.02.06
- Description
- Overall green in colour, five building begin on the right side of the painting and continue to the left of centre, all buildings have red rooves, line of canoes along right side in front of first two buildings, two boats on the water.
- Title
- Bow River Boat House
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- oil on canvas on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- Overall green in colour, five building begin on the right side of the painting and continue to the left of centre, all buildings have red rooves, line of canoes along right side in front of first two buildings, two boats on the water.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountains
- river
- architecture, urban
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- LoT.02.06
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Bow River NWT, 1887
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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.
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy and Jim McLeod, Calgary, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- FiC.05.02
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