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The Canadian

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Artist: Nicholas Morant (1910 – 1999, Canadian)

Date: 1976

Medium: ektacolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MoN.18.08

Description: A colour photograph, a passenger train is travelling around a curve lower centre of picture, beside a partially frozen river, fog is rising from it, the middle of the picture is snow covered forest with snow covered mountains in the background, cloud sky

Artist: Nicholas Morant (1910 – 1999, Canadian)

Title: The Canadian

Date: 1976

Medium: ektacolour on paper

Dimensions: 40.7 x 50.8 cm

Description: A colour photograph, a passenger train is travelling around a curve lower centre of picture, beside a partially frozen river, fog is rising from it, the middle of the picture is snow covered forest with snow covered mountains in the background, cloud sky

Subject: landscape, mountain; transportation, CPR; landscape, winter

Credit: Gift of Canadian Pacific Corporate Archives, Montreal, 1985

Catalogue Number: MoN.18.08

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The Canadian New Size

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Artist: Nicholas Morant (1910 – 1999, Canadian)

Date: 1971

Medium: ektacolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MoN.18.11

Description: A colour photograph of a train in a S curve, bottom right to centre, the valley floor is forested, rising up to mountains in the background, a blue sky with some white clouds, a river runs from bottom centre to centre of picture

Artist: Nicholas Morant (1910 – 1999, Canadian)

Title: The Canadian New Size

Date: 1971

Medium: ektacolour on paper

Dimensions: 50.7 x 61.0 cm

Description: A colour photograph of a train in a S curve, bottom right to centre, the valley floor is forested, rising up to mountains in the background, a blue sky with some white clouds, a river runs from bottom centre to centre of picture

Subject: landscape, mountain; transportation, CPR

Credit: Gift of Canadian Pacific Corporate Archives, Montreal, 1985

Catalogue Number: MoN.18.11

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Hector Lake, Kicking Horse Pass, BC

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.07

Description: Mountain landscape with large glassy lake in centre of painting. Abstract foliage and stand of dead trees in foreground at right. Brown treed slopes on opposite shore with large snow-capped mountains in distance. Small white and red buildings on far shore of lake. Title written in bottom left corne…

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Artist: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)

Title: Hector Lake, Kicking Horse Pass, BC

Date: 1887

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 32.8 x 48.0 cm

Description: Mountain landscape with large glassy lake in centre of painting. Abstract foliage and stand of dead trees in foreground at right. Brown treed slopes on opposite shore with large snow-capped mountains in distance. Small white and red buildings on far shore of lake. Title written in bottom left corner. “F.M. Bell-Smith 1887” at bottom right.

Subject: mountains; lake; CPR

Credit: Gift of Mark Cullen, 2021

Catalogue Number: BeS.05.07

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Mount Lefroy N.W.T.

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Artist: Marmaduke Matthews (1837 – 1913, British)

Date: c. 1888

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MaM.05.01

Description: Left foreground evergreen trees on a slope, right foreground from centre left to tr mountain slope with some evergreen trees and burnt out forest. The snow capped mountain is centre right to near top of picture. Mountain range to left. Sky is partly cloudy, streaked with colour. On back in art…

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Artist: Marmaduke Matthews (1837 – 1913, British)

Title: Mount Lefroy N.W.T.

Date: c. 1888

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 15.7 x 35.0 cm

Description: Left foreground evergreen trees on a slope, right foreground from centre left to tr mountain slope with some evergreen trees and burnt out forest. The snow capped mountain is centre right to near top of picture. Mountain range to left. Sky is partly cloudy, streaked with colour. On back in artist's hand: Mt. Lefroy N.W.T. Highest Peak on the C.P.R. line near Abbott Pass, more than 11,000 feet high. Also Twice One fifth less than twice

Subject: Canadian Rockies; Mount Lefroy; CPR

Credit: Gift of Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 1995

Catalogue Number: MaM.05.01

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Train in Rocky Mountains

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Artist: Nicholas Morant (1910 – 1999, Canadian)

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: gelatine silver on paper

Catalogue Number: MoN.18.02

Description: A black and white photograph of a train in the Rocky Mountains, the scene is in the winter, the train is running to the left of the picture, lots of smoke from the engine, dark near the engine and thinning out at the top left, the lower two thirds is forest covered, mountain peaks to left and extre…

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Artist: Nicholas Morant (1910 – 1999, Canadian)

Title: Train in Rocky Mountains

Date: 1950 – 1970

Medium: gelatine silver on paper

Dimensions: 34.0 x 48.5 cm

Description: A black and white photograph of a train in the Rocky Mountains, the scene is in the winter, the train is running to the left of the picture, lots of smoke from the engine, dark near the engine and thinning out at the top left, the lower two thirds is forest covered, mountain peaks to left and extreme right, cloudy day