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Storm Clouds Above Victoria Glacier, Pipestone River

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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1929
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.133
Description
Colour: green, yellow, grey. In the foreground are bright purple and pink shrubs in the green grass. Three yellow larches stand left of center. A sliver of blue water can be seen across the picture and the far shore starts an inch up from the bottom. Trees and green hills fill the rest of the lower…
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Storm Clouds Above Victoria Glacier, Pipestone River
Date
1929
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
11 x 9 cm
Description
Colour: green, yellow, grey. In the foreground are bright purple and pink shrubs in the green grass. Three yellow larches stand left of center. A sliver of blue water can be seen across the picture and the far shore starts an inch up from the bottom. Trees and green hills fill the rest of the lower half. Grey sky with hints of purple mountains fill the top.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
glacier
Victoria Glacier
river
Pipestone River
Credit
Gift of Margaret White, Kamloops, 1975
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.133
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The Tenryu River at Mitsuke, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido

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Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858, Japanese)
Date
1834
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
HiU.04.04
Description
Two boats, two people in one of them, are nosed up to sandbar. The sandbar runs through middle of picture. More boats and men on other side of sandbar. Some men are on the bar loading a llama. Two rows of trees are silhouetted top left. The water is blue, a strip of dark blue runs across top of pic…
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Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858, Japanese)
Title
The Tenryu River at Mitsuke, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido
Date
1834
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
22 x 34 cm
Description
Two boats, two people in one of them, are nosed up to sandbar. The sandbar runs through middle of picture. More boats and men on other side of sandbar. Some men are on the bar loading a llama. Two rows of trees are silhouetted top left. The water is blue, a strip of dark blue runs across top of picture.
Subject
landscape
river
Tenryu River
activity
boating
figures
male
female
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
HiU.04.04
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Yokkaichi, Mie River, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido

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Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858, Japanese)
Date
1834
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
HiU.04.02
Description
A waterfront scene. A breakwater runs from left bottom corner to the right and off it is a brown plank bridge. A bald-headed man in blue is chasing a yellow hat to the left bottom corner on the breakwater, another person is on the bridge, he has on a yellow coat and light orange hat. A lone bushy b…
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Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858, Japanese)
Title
Yokkaichi, Mie River, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido
Date
1834
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
25 x 36 cm
Description
A waterfront scene. A breakwater runs from left bottom corner to the right and off it is a brown plank bridge. A bald-headed man in blue is chasing a yellow hat to the left bottom corner on the breakwater, another person is on the bridge, he has on a yellow coat and light orange hat. A lone bushy branched tree is in centre of picture, a row of reeds runs through centre of picture, some brown topped houses are to left centre. Dark royal blue and green lower part of picture, aqua marine in centre, blue sky line. A stripe of red/brown runs along top of picture.
Subject
landscape
river
Mie River
figure
male
activity,running
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
HiU.04.02
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Across the North Saskatchewan River/Shadows

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Artist
Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)
Date
2003 – 2003
Medium
oil on masonite board
Catalogue Number
GrL.01.28
Description
An oil sketch of a landscape. The primary colours used are green, grey, purple and beige. The upper third of the piece is in green, red and beige, with the shadows of the trees depicted as red lines. The majority of the canvas centre is grey, with a variety of colours on the right centre. The artis…
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Artist
Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)
Title
Across the North Saskatchewan River/Shadows
Date
2003 – 2003
Medium
oil on masonite board
Dimensions
35.6 x 40.7 cm
Description
An oil sketch of a landscape. The primary colours used are green, grey, purple and beige. The upper third of the piece is in green, red and beige, with the shadows of the trees depicted as red lines. The majority of the canvas centre is grey, with a variety of colours on the right centre. The artist’s signature is in the blhc in purple paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the tlhc, “47/R”.
Subject
landscape
river
shadow
Credit
Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2007
Catalogue Number
GrL.01.28
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1929
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.150
Description
Colour: green, purple. Across the bottom and angling up left is grass with trees, three at left and two at right, along the river's edge. The green river comes in from the right side, goes left and then up right side to disappear into the far shore of dark trees. The right shore juts in from that s…
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Alexander River
Date
1929
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
30.5 x 28 cm
Description
Colour: green, purple. Across the bottom and angling up left is grass with trees, three at left and two at right, along the river's edge. The green river comes in from the right side, goes left and then up right side to disappear into the far shore of dark trees. The right shore juts in from that side, halfway up. In the background across the top are purple mountains. Five peaks meet a green grey sky.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
river
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
Catalogue Number
WyP.01.150
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Artist
Marmaduke Matthews (1837 – 1913, British)
Date
c. 1887
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
MaM.02.01
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Artist
Marmaduke Matthews (1837 – 1913, British)
Title
Bow River
Date
c. 1887
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
33.0 x 67.8 cm
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
river
Credit
Purchased from Kennedy Galleries , New York, USA, 1980
Catalogue Number
MaM.02.01
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Bow Valley, Canmore, Alberta

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Artist
Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)
Date
1944 – 1962
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
DaK.02.11
Description
Bottom third of painting is a wide expanse of water with reflections of the mountains and riverbank. The water narrows mid-centre and has green reflections of treelined riverbank. The top half is grey, blue and white mountains with cloudy sky.
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Artist
Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)
Title
Bow Valley, Canmore, Alberta
Date
1944 – 1962
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
38.0 x 45.8 cm
Description
Bottom third of painting is a wide expanse of water with reflections of the mountains and riverbank. The water narrows mid-centre and has green reflections of treelined riverbank. The top half is grey, blue and white mountains with cloudy sky.
Subject
Canadian Rockies
mountain
river
Credit
Gift of Moore Gallery Ltd, Hamilton, 1995
Catalogue Number
DaK.02.11
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Artist
George Webber
Date
2007
Medium
photograph on paper
Catalogue Number
WeB.18.02
Description
Boy swimming in the Belly River, The Blood Reserve, Alberta.
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Artist
George Webber
Title
Boy, Belly River
Date
2007
Medium
photograph on paper
Dimensions
11” x 14” cm
Description
Boy swimming in the Belly River, The Blood Reserve, Alberta.
Subject
documentary photography
community
Indigenous
swimming
river
Credit
Gift of George Webber, Calgary, 2014
Catalogue Number
WeB.18.02
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Artist
Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1958
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
LaE.05.07
Description
General colour: green, yellow, blue. A road and railrway tracks come in and out on the left side. Trees grow near the river which appears at the bottom right corner and goes up into the center. The right bank starts as rocks, becomes trees, becomes slope, becomes mountain peak. Sky at the top.
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Artist
Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)
Title
Caribou Highway
Date
prior to 1958
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
43.2 x 28.2 cm
Description
General colour: green, yellow, blue. A road and railrway tracks come in and out on the left side. Trees grow near the river which appears at the bottom right corner and goes up into the center. The right bank starts as rocks, becomes trees, becomes slope, becomes mountain peak. Sky at the top.
Subject
landscape
river
mountains
Ernest Lamarque
Credit
Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971
Catalogue Number
LaE.05.07
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Cascade in the Selkirks

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Artist
Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)
Date
n.d.
Medium
oil on board
Catalogue Number
BeS.02.03
Description
Small river or creek runs over rocks in Selkirk Mountains area.
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Artist
Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, R. C. A. (1846 – 1923, Canadian)
Title
Cascade in the Selkirks
Date
n.d.
Medium
oil on board
Dimensions
23.5 x 15.8 cm
Description
Small river or creek runs over rocks in Selkirk Mountains area.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Selkirk Mountains
river
Credit
Purchased from The Collector’s Gallery, Calgary, 2003
Catalogue Number
BeS.02.03
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