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Airplane Lake, British Columbia
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- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.02
- Description
- General colour: light green, brown. The lake sits in the lower third of the picture between two points of grassy treed land. One comes from the left side across the bottom, the other from the right side, part way up to right of center. A brown mountain range rises up from the lake and to the right …
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- Title
- Airplane Lake, British Columbia
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 26.9 x 43.5 cm
- Description
- General colour: light green, brown. The lake sits in the lower third of the picture between two points of grassy treed land. One comes from the left side across the bottom, the other from the right side, part way up to right of center. A brown mountain range rises up from the lake and to the right side. Sky beyond with two birds flying center and left.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- lake
- Ernest Lamarque
- Credit
- Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971
- Catalogue Number
- LaE.05.02
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- Date
- c. 1940
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.05.03
- Description
- Hoodoos tower over what is possibly the Bow River. Three large hoodoos stand on a bluff overlooking the river beyond them. Several more hoodoos are visible further along this same bluff. The area in front of the hoodoos is mainly flat with some rolling to the ground. The river flows through the…
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- Title
- Hoodoos
- Date
- c. 1940
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Description
- Hoodoos tower over what is possibly the Bow River. Three large hoodoos stand on a bluff overlooking the river beyond them. Several more hoodoos are visible further along this same bluff. The area in front of the hoodoos is mainly flat with some rolling to the ground. The river flows through the watercolour, the larger hoodoos partly blocking the the visibility of the river. Coniferous trees are seen below the hoodoos along the river. Everything is painted in soft washes of sand, green and blue.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- hoodoos
- Credit
- Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.05.03
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In the Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactphw.05.10
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.05.10
- Description
- The painting is on heavy, brownish paper. The foreground is green, lower right are rocks and a rocky side of a mountain. Blue mountains are evident in background. The top two thirds of the painting is sky, slight washes indicate soft white clouds. Signed brc.
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- Title
- In the Rockies
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 23.5 x 26.0 cm
- Description
- The painting is on heavy, brownish paper. The foreground is green, lower right are rocks and a rocky side of a mountain. Blue mountains are evident in background. The top two thirds of the painting is sky, slight washes indicate soft white clouds. Signed brc.
- Credit
- Purchased from Sotheby Parke Bernet (Canada) Ltd, Toronto, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.05.10
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- Artist
- Doris Cormie
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- painting on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CmD.05.06
- Description
- A watercolour painting of a mountain landscape with a lake. A distinct and pointed Mt. Edith right of centre in the background dominates this painting. The mountain is beige with green and grey. Behind the mountain is a blue cloudless sky. To the left of Mt. Edith is a mountain range extending out …
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- Artist
- Doris Cormie
- Title
- Mount Edith
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- painting on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 40.0 cm
- Description
- A watercolour painting of a mountain landscape with a lake. A distinct and pointed Mt. Edith right of centre in the background dominates this painting. The mountain is beige with green and grey. Behind the mountain is a blue cloudless sky. To the left of Mt. Edith is a mountain range extending out of frame and on the right is the side of another mountain leading out of frame. In the middle ground is a short line of shrubs and trees with two tall pine trees on the far right. In the foreground is an indigo and blue lake with the shore visible along the bottom edge, predominately on the right side. Blue, purple, green, grey and beige are the main colours used. The artist signature is at the bottom right. Au verso, written in pencil along the bottom, “Mt. Edith Cormie Aug 24/38”. Written right of centre in the bottom half of the paper is, “14 x 10 1/4 6 x 6 1/2 20 x 16 3/4”. Written on the left side mid way up is, “51” with a circle around it.
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- Mount. Edith
- lake
- Doris Cormie
- Credit
- Gift of Barry Hunter Gillis, Richmond, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- CmD.05.06
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The New Plant at the Gap - Banff Road
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgyh.05.04
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.05.04
- Description
- An industrial plant is situated next to the side of the mountain. This may be a gravel plant or perhaps a cement plant somewhere near Exshaw.
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- Title
- The New Plant at the Gap - Banff Road
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Description
- An industrial plant is situated next to the side of the mountain. This may be a gravel plant or perhaps a cement plant somewhere near Exshaw.
- Credit
- Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.05.04
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- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.01
- Description
- Two tents are pitched lower left, trees to right, yellow/green foreground, blue mountain in background, yellowish, light blue sky.
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- Title
- On the Trail
- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.0 x 22.1 cm
- Description
- Two tents are pitched lower left, trees to right, yellow/green foreground, blue mountain in background, yellowish, light blue sky.
- Credit
- Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.01
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Tunnel Mountain
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactphw.05.08
- Date
- c. 1936
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.05.08
- Description
- General colour: blue, mauve. Sky fills the upper half of paper. Lake, trees and mountains, the lower half. Two poplar trees divide the picture vertically top to bottom, one third from left side.
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- Title
- Tunnel Mountain
- Date
- c. 1936
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 32.7 x 53.3 cm
- Description
- General colour: blue, mauve. Sky fills the upper half of paper. Lake, trees and mountains, the lower half. Two poplar trees divide the picture vertically top to bottom, one third from left side.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- PhW.05.08
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- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.03
- Description
- A wooden (foot) bridge is in foreground, it spans from side to side, rocks, a few evergreen trees and grasses in immediate foreground; blue water is evident under bridge; forest with 2 mountains peaks in background; some snow on tops; light blue sky.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 34.3 x 24.8 cm
- Description
- A wooden (foot) bridge is in foreground, it spans from side to side, rocks, a few evergreen trees and grasses in immediate foreground; blue water is evident under bridge; forest with 2 mountains peaks in background; some snow on tops; light blue sky.
- Credit
- Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.03
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- Date
- 1935
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.13
- Description
- Water in the foreground with the reflection of the bushes and pine trees to the left. A hill rises to the left behind the pine trees. There is a bank to the right and further on a stand of pine trees that reaches mid-centre. A very cloudy sky hides most of the mountain in the background.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1935
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.0 x 36.0 cm
- Description
- Water in the foreground with the reflection of the bushes and pine trees to the left. A hill rises to the left behind the pine trees. There is a bank to the right and further on a stand of pine trees that reaches mid-centre. A very cloudy sky hides most of the mountain in the background.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.13
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- Date
- 1939
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.17
- Description
- A valley with a stand of evergreens to the left, a few more growing up the slope, a stream of water in the middle, two stands of evergreens on the right growing up the slope, mountains in the background with a clear sky. This is a Christmas card, greeting and signature in brc.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1939
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 10.8 x 16.8 cm
- Description
- A valley with a stand of evergreens to the left, a few more growing up the slope, a stream of water in the middle, two stands of evergreens on the right growing up the slope, mountains in the background with a clear sky. This is a Christmas card, greeting and signature in brc.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- mountain
- valley
- water
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- SiJ.05.17
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