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Backpack

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Date: 1915 – 1918

Material: fibre; skin; metal

Catalogue Number: 103.08.1027

Description: Outside metal frame, Erling Strom's, Bergen brand, shaped metal tubualar frame, waist bar curved, canvas sack attaced at top by leather piece and at bottom sides, top of sack has grommets through which rope is laced to close, flap goes over top , 2 leather straps that buckle onto main sack, webbed …

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Title: Backpack

Date: 1915 – 1918

Material: fibre; skin; metal

Description: Outside metal frame, Erling Strom's, Bergen brand, shaped metal tubualar frame, waist bar curved, canvas sack attaced at top by leather piece and at bottom sides, top of sack has grommets through which rope is laced to close, flap goes over top , 2 leather straps that buckle onto main sack, webbed waist band, leather shoulder straps are rivetted at top, adjustable buckle at bottom.

Subject: sports; hiking; Canadian Rockies; Erling Strom; Mount Assiniboine Lodge

Credit: Gift of Erling Strom, 1977

Catalogue Number: 103.08.1027

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Baker Creek

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.01

Description: General colour: blue, purple, green. Creek is surrounded on all sides by snow covered rocks and shrubs. The water comes down from the upper right of center to the lower center and of right near the bottom. In the lower left corner is a bare branched bush. Across the top is snow covered evergreens. …

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Baker Creek

Date: c. 1930

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 90.2 x 100.2 cm

Description: General colour: blue, purple, green. Creek is surrounded on all sides by snow covered rocks and shrubs. The water comes down from the upper right of center to the lower center and of right near the bottom. In the lower left corner is a bare branched bush. Across the top is snow covered evergreens. Clear sky and a distant hill in the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; winter; Baker Creek

Credit: Gift of Evelyn Browne, Durham, USA, 1968

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.01

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Bald Eagles on Watch

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Artist: Clarence Ingwall Tillenius (1913 – 2012, Canadian)

Date: 1979

Medium: oil on canvas board

Catalogue Number: TiC.02.09

Description: On the left side of the painting an eagle sits on the top of a dead tree facing the right side of the image. Behind the brown, yellow and white bird there are mountains and trees. The mountains in the far distance have some snow on the peaks but the closer ones are covered with green trees. In the…

Artist: Clarence Ingwall Tillenius (1913 – 2012, Canadian)

Title: Bald Eagles on Watch

Date: 1979

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 23.0 x 30.6 cm

Description: On the left side of the painting an eagle sits on the top of a dead tree facing the right side of the image. Behind the brown, yellow and white bird there are mountains and trees. The mountains in the far distance have some snow on the peaks but the closer ones are covered with green trees. In the foreground a blue body of water is surrounded with a brilliant green weed or grass. From the cl to the cr a line of trees cross the bottom of the image. Some of the trees and grass between the background mountains and the foreground water are a yellow hue.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; animal; Bald Eagle

Credit: Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996

Catalogue Number: TiC.02.09

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Banff

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.156

Description: Dark evergreens in right foreground, ochre and yellow meadow to the left and directly above trees, town of Banff is in middle far right. Snow-covered Mount Rundle upper right. The treeline cuts through the centre of the painting, grey brown flank of Tunnel Mountain to the left.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Banff

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.2 cm

Description: Dark evergreens in right foreground, ochre and yellow meadow to the left and directly above trees, town of Banff is in middle far right. Snow-covered Mount Rundle upper right. The treeline cuts through the centre of the painting, grey brown flank of Tunnel Mountain to the left.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; town, Banff

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.156

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Banff 1962

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: 1962

Medium: oil on masonite

Catalogue Number: GyH.02.01

Description: General colour: greens, pink, blue, mauve and purple. Mount Rundle in broad impressionistic strokes. “GLYDE 62” aigned in black in the brhc.

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Banff 1962

Date: 1962

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 26.1 x 33.6 cm

Description: General colour: greens, pink, blue, mauve and purple. Mount Rundle in broad impressionistic strokes. “GLYDE 62” aigned in black in the brhc.

Subject: landscape; Mount Rundle; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of eisler, Edmonton, 1972

Catalogue Number: GyH.02.01

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Banff, Cascade Mountain

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Artist: Emily Louise Elliot (1867 – 1952, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ElE.05.01

Description: Cascade Mountain with Bow River or Vermilion Lakes in foreground.

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Artist: Emily Louise Elliot (1867 – 1952, Canadian)

Title: Banff, Cascade Mountain

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 16.4 x 12.5 cm

Description: Cascade Mountain with Bow River or Vermilion Lakes in foreground.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Cascade Mountain

Credit: Purchased from Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 2005

Catalogue Number: ElE.05.01

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Banff from the Green Spot

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933 – 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.379

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Banff from the Green Spot

Date: 1933 – 1937

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22.7 x 27.8 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; buildings

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.379

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Banff from Tunnel Mountain

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.055

Description: Colour: blue, green, orange red. At the lower left corner is a green slope. Looking down on a town of bright buildings. Half way up are trees and a plain going off into the distance until mountain slopes take over the upper third.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Banff from Tunnel Mountain

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green, orange red. At the lower left corner is a green slope. Looking down on a town of bright buildings. Half way up are trees and a plain going off into the distance until mountain slopes take over the upper third.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; architecture; rural

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.055

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928

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Artist: Richard Jack (1866 – 1952, Canadian)

Date: c. 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: JkR.02.03

Description: A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of …

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Artist: Richard Jack (1866 – 1952, Canadian)

Title: Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928

Date: c. 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.5 x 60.3 cm

Description: A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of an open space where the men in kilts are standing. Mount Rundle rises up behind the Hotel. A flagpole, trees and coloured tents are dispersed through the crowd in the middle of the painting.

Subject: architecture; Banff Springs Hotel; landscape; Canadian Rockies; activity; Highland Gathering

Credit: Gift of Joan Fitt, Calgary, 2001

Catalogue Number: JkR.02.03

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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.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; building, Banff Springs Hotel; mountains; forest

Credit: Gift of Jon Whyte, Banff, 1992

Catalogue Number: NeB.05.01

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Banff National Park, Yoho Park and Kootenay Park

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Medium: Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published); Map

Published Date: 1929

Publisher: Canadian Pacific Railway

Call Number: C3-6.3(a)

Publisher: Canadian Pacific Railway

Published Date: 1929

Physical Description: Colour

Medium: Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published); Map

Subjects: Canadian Rockies

Notes: Panoramic map showing main and branch lines of C.P.R.; 3 duplicates in Map Room

Accession Number: 131; 110; 1120; 3072

Call Number: C3-6.3(a)

Collection: Archives Library

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Banff National Park, Yoho Park and Kootenay Park

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Medium: Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published); Map

Published Date: 1930

Publisher: C.P.R.

Call Number: C3-6.3(b)

Publisher: C.P.R.

Published Date: 1930

Physical Description: Colour

Medium: Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published); Map

Subjects: Canadian Rockies

Notes: Panoramic map showing main and branch lines of C.P.R. Railway

Accession Number: 1230

Call Number: C3-6.3(b)

Collection: Archives Library

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Banff Road, West of Calgary.

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: 1963

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.25

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Lower third is brown fields with a few vague structures here and there. Upper two thirds are blue mountain range and clouded sky.

Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Banff Road, West of Calgary.

Date: 1963

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 20.3 x 25.3 cm

Description: General colour: blue, brown. Lower third is brown fields with a few vague structures here and there. Upper two thirds are blue mountain range and clouded sky.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.25

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Bankhead Foundations

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas on aluminum

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.223

Description: The great rock formation juts out of the lime coloured grass in the middle centre. Some large blue green evergreens create a natural barrier between the foreground and background. A smeared array of greens implies a deep forest beyond the rise in the foreground. The blue mountains stretch across th…

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Bankhead Foundations

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas on aluminum

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: The great rock formation juts out of the lime coloured grass in the middle centre. Some large blue green evergreens create a natural barrier between the foreground and background. A smeared array of greens implies a deep forest beyond the rise in the foreground. The blue mountains stretch across the horizon line. Pale blue sky with low lying cloud cover dominates the top 1/3 of the sketch.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; architecture

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.223

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Barrier Lake

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1952

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.375

Description: The blue lake in the center of this image is surrounded by green trees. Behind the lake the mountains are partically covered with trees and some are light brown in color with no trees. The sky above the lake and mountains is pale blue with some white clouds. The foreground area has a road that begi…

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Barrier Lake

Date: 1952

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.2 x 30.3 cm

Description: The blue lake in the center of this image is surrounded by green trees. Behind the lake the mountains are partically covered with trees and some are light brown in color with no trees. The sky above the lake and mountains is pale blue with some white clouds. The foreground area has a road that begins on the left and follows threw to the right, with a dip down in the bottom center area.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; Barrier Lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.375

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The Bear Street Alley, Banff

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1931 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.344

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: The Bear Street Alley, Banff

Date: 1931 – 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.7 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; town; building; winter

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.344

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Bear Street Alley, Banff

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.052

Description: Colour: warm brown with blue. A road with buildings on both sides and hydro poles, goes from the bottom foreground to left side and disappears into a mountain side which rises up behind filling the upper half. Blue sky is in the upper right corner.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bear Street Alley, Banff

Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35 cm

Description: Colour: warm brown with blue. A road with buildings on both sides and hydro poles, goes from the bottom foreground to left side and disappears into a mountain side which rises up behind filling the upper half. Blue sky is in the upper right corner.