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Dust Devils

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Artist: Illingworth Holey Kerr (1905 – 1989, Canadian)

Date: 1986

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: KeI.02.04

Description: A farm scene with pink, grey and purple foothills behind, and dust devils in front rising to a turbulent sky. The lower one-third is the grey road lined by green on both sides through the fields; on the viewer’s left are fields in gold, green, grey, purple and brown, and on the viewer’s left of the…

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Artist: Illingworth Holey Kerr (1905 – 1989, Canadian)

Title: Dust Devils

Date: 1986

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 122.0 x 137.0 cm

Description: A farm scene with pink, grey and purple foothills behind, and dust devils in front rising to a turbulent sky. The lower one-third is the grey road lined by green on both sides through the fields; on the viewer’s left are fields in gold, green, grey, purple and brown, and on the viewer’s left of the road, a red shed with a purple roof, then a white farmhouse with a purple roof, and another shed partially obscured by the dust funnel rising up to mingle with clouds in the sky. Further to the left another red building with a purple roof and to the left of that another dust funnel (dust devil) rising up to the storm clouds and sheets of weather in the sky. Three-quarters of the painting is the purple,pink and grey clouds and several storm sheets creating a large foreboding sky. Signed on the bottom left corner with the artist’s logo.

Subject: landscape; farm; foothills; storm

Credit: Gift of Johannes Thiessen, Calgary, 2006

Catalogue Number: KeI.02.04

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Artist: Leonard Moore Davis (1864 – 1938, American)

Date: 1927

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: DaL.05.01

Description: A mountain peak dominates the centre, right side in shadow, tinges of pink top left of mountain. Mountain range left background. Left foreground and right foreground indicate green hillsides. Sky is light blue with a few patches of white top right.

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Artist: Leonard Moore Davis (1864 – 1938, American)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1927

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 8.2 x 11.3 cm

Description: A mountain peak dominates the centre, right side in shadow, tinges of pink top left of mountain. Mountain range left background. Left foreground and right foreground indicate green hillsides. Sky is light blue with a few patches of white top right.

Subject: landscape; mountains

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: DaL.05.01

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Artist: Leonard Moore Davis (1864 – 1938, American)

Date: prior to 1925

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: DaL.05.02

Description: A mountain peak dominates, to left of top centre. Clouds indicated around mountain, slight pink tinge on left side of mountain top. blc and brc form valley in foreground with varied coloured foliage - yellow, red, green, purple fading into the mountain.

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Artist: Leonard Moore Davis (1864 – 1938, American)

Title: Untitled

Date: prior to 1925

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 10.5 x 16.0 cm

Description: A mountain peak dominates, to left of top centre. Clouds indicated around mountain, slight pink tinge on left side of mountain top. blc and brc form valley in foreground with varied coloured foliage - yellow, red, green, purple fading into the mountain.