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Summit of the Rockies and Mt. Field

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Artist: James Alfred Aitken (1846 – 1897, Scottish)

Date: c. 1886

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: AiJ.05.01

Description: The scene is comprised mainly of a mountain and a lake. The lake takes up approx. 1/2 of the work, and is cropped in the brc by the frame. The blc is the shoreline of the lake. On the right and left side of the piece, just above the lake, the beginning of two treed mountain sides head out of the…

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Artist: James Alfred Aitken (1846 – 1897, Scottish)

Title: Summit of the Rockies and Mt. Field

Date: c. 1886

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: The scene is comprised mainly of a mountain and a lake. The lake takes up approx. 1/2 of the work, and is cropped in the brc by the frame. The blc is the shoreline of the lake. On the right and left side of the piece, just above the lake, the beginning of two treed mountain sides head out of the picture frame. These two slopes frame a clear mountain in the background which is centered in the middle of the piece. They sky is quite cloudy.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Mt. Field

Credit: Gift of Donald Grace, Saanichton, 1997

Catalogue Number: AiJ.05.01

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Untitled [Flower Series]

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Date: 1977

Medium: watercolour; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.02

Description: General colour: blue, grey. Two stalks of blue flowers - four blooms and several buds. There are two grey lines that come in from opposite sides of the circle. One blue stripe comes in at the upper left.

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Title: Untitled [Flower Series]

Date: 1977

Medium: watercolour; ink on paper

Dimensions: 38.5 x 33.4 cm

Description: General colour: blue, grey. Two stalks of blue flowers - four blooms and several buds. There are two grey lines that come in from opposite sides of the circle. One blue stripe comes in at the upper left.

Subject: botanical; flowers

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

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.02

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Untitled [Flowers Series]

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Date: 1977

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.03

Description: This watercolour has been created in a circle shape. Within the circle are two flowers in bloom and two others that are only at the initial blooming stages. The artist has signed just outside the circle at the bottom right corner.

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Title: Untitled [Flowers Series]

Date: 1977

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.6 x 21.1 cm

Description: This watercolour has been created in a circle shape. Within the circle are two flowers in bloom and two others that are only at the initial blooming stages. The artist has signed just outside the circle at the bottom right corner.

Subject: botanical; flowers

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

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.03

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Untitled [Flower Series]

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Date: 1977

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.04

Description: This watercolour has three flowers placed in almost a triangle shape in relation to each other; with the tip of the triangle pointing downward. There are many long stems coming from the flowers. Most of the stems are vertical and are created in an upward gesture. Four small short stems come from th…

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Title: Untitled [Flower Series]

Date: 1977

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 28.5 x 21.5 cm

Description: This watercolour has three flowers placed in almost a triangle shape in relation to each other; with the tip of the triangle pointing downward. There are many long stems coming from the flowers. Most of the stems are vertical and are created in an upward gesture. Four small short stems come from the bottom part and extend to the lower portion of the image.

Subject: botanical; flowers

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

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.04

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Boojum cactus / desert scene

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Date: 1981

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.07

Description: Multi-coloured cone shaped, spiked trees and cacti on and against grey rocks covers most of the left and centre top with smaller ones on mauve rocks to the right. In the centre are two mythological bird creatures perched on rocks.

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Artist: Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)

Title: Boojum cactus / desert scene

Date: 1981

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 56.0 x 76.5 cm

Description: Multi-coloured cone shaped, spiked trees and cacti on and against grey rocks covers most of the left and centre top with smaller ones on mauve rocks to the right. In the centre are two mythological bird creatures perched on rocks.

Subject: botanical; Boojum cactus; Pat Askren

Credit: Gift of Jon Whyte, Banff, 1992

Catalogue Number: ArP.05.07

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Untitled [Grasshopper and Bee]

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Artist: Qi Baishi

Date: n.d.

Material: paint

Catalogue Number: BaQ.05.01

Description: Long yellow/green leaves come out from top left and droop towards bottom, there is a bunch of seeds coming from the stem. A brown grasshopper is on one leaf, a brown bee is in the left foreground.

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Title: Untitled [Grasshopper and Bee]

Date: n.d.

Material: paint

Dimensions: 30.0 x 23.8 cm

Description: Long yellow/green leaves come out from top left and droop towards bottom, there is a bunch of seeds coming from the stem. A brown grasshopper is on one leaf, a brown bee is in the left foreground.