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Autumn Foothills

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Artist: Takao Tanabe (1926 – , Canadian)

Date: 1979

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Catalogue Number: TaT.12.01

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Artist: Takao Tanabe (1926 – , Canadian)

Title: Autumn Foothills

Date: 1979

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 109.00 x 228.6 cm

Subject: landscape; foothills; prairies

Credit: Gift of Canada Council, Ottawa, 1979

Catalogue Number: TaT.12.01

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Charge of a Buffalo Cow

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1971

Medium: watercolour; gouache on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.05.01

Description: General colour: yellow tan, brown, with some black, white, red and orange. Mid-centre and viewer’s right is a charging bison. Above and behind it is a spotted horse and a rider who is spearing the bison. On the left side are three small red buffalo with orange centres decreasing in size, smallest b…

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Charge of a Buffalo Cow

Date: 1971

Medium: watercolour; gouache on paper

Dimensions: 45.5 x 61.0 cm

Description: General colour: yellow tan, brown, with some black, white, red and orange. Mid-centre and viewer’s right is a charging bison. Above and behind it is a spotted horse and a rider who is spearing the bison. On the left side are three small red buffalo with orange centres decreasing in size, smallest being at the top. There is another small red bison with an orange centre in the upper right area.Au verso: CHARGE OF A BUFFALO COW - SARAIN STUMP - 1971

Subject: animal, horse; buffalo; figure, male; hunting

Credit: Purchased from Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 1974

Catalogue Number: StS.05.01

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The Contest

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.05.02

Description: General colour: grey green. A man, wearing only a blue loin cloth and two feathers in his braided hair grips the neck of another man who kneels to the right of him. A ghost image of a bear grasping a bison is slightly superimposed on top of them. There is a horizon line of white figures - four to e…

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: The Contest

Date: 1970

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 26.1 x 37.5 cm

Description: General colour: grey green. A man, wearing only a blue loin cloth and two feathers in his braided hair grips the neck of another man who kneels to the right of him. A ghost image of a bear grasping a bison is slightly superimposed on top of them. There is a horizon line of white figures - four to each side of the central image.Au verso: “THE CONTEST” tlhc “436” encircled, rhtc “K.6” (remaining number hidden by archival tape)brhc “12” encircled, below “30” encircled

Subject: animal, bear, buffalo; figure, group; mythological

Credit: Purchased from Archives of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: StS.05.02

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Cutting Out The Stragglers

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Artist: Clarence Ingwall Tillenius (1913 – 2012, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1996

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: TiC.02.05

Description: Three wolves have singled out one bison from a herd and are making an attack. The rest of the herd are running from the right side of the image to the left. The ground is covered in snow and blue in colour. The wolves have a yellow colour intergrated with brown in their fur. In the distance are tre…

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Artist: Clarence Ingwall Tillenius (1913 – 2012, Canadian)

Title: Cutting Out The Stragglers

Date: prior to 1996

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 60.9 x 121.9 cm

Description: Three wolves have singled out one bison from a herd and are making an attack. The rest of the herd are running from the right side of the image to the left. The ground is covered in snow and blue in colour. The wolves have a yellow colour intergrated with brown in their fur. In the distance are trees, bison and a few more wolves.

Subject: animal; wolf; buffalo; landscape; Canadian; activity; hunting

Credit: Gift of Clarence Ingwall Tillenius, Winnipeg, 1996

Catalogue Number: TiC.02.05

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The Man Who Outran the Deer

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.05.03

Description: Colour: brown and white on yellow. Two small brown deer leap from viewer’s right two-thirds the way up. One antlered deer halts at the left side half way up. A running man wearing a loin cloth fills the centre space. His black hair with a feather in it flies out to the right.Au verso rhtc “111” en…

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: The Man Who Outran the Deer

Date: 1970

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 35.5 cm

Description: Colour: brown and white on yellow. Two small brown deer leap from viewer’s right two-thirds the way up. One antlered deer halts at the left side half way up. A running man wearing a loin cloth fills the centre space. His black hair with a feather in it flies out to the right.Au verso rhtc “111” encircled

Subject: figure, male; animal, deer; mythological

Credit: Purchased from Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: StS.05.03

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Megalith

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Artist: Jim Stewart (1949 – , Canadian)

Date: 1977

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Catalogue Number: StJ.12.02

Description: A golden triangle with red at each point covers top of painting to a point below centre; a grid of red lines has colours of green along bottom edge to purples and blues; 5 black lines with smaller red and yellow dots over picture in no particular order.

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Artist: Jim Stewart (1949 – , Canadian)

Title: Megalith

Date: 1977

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 30.7 x 40.6 cm

Description: A golden triangle with red at each point covers top of painting to a point below centre; a grid of red lines has colours of green along bottom edge to purples and blues; 5 black lines with smaller red and yellow dots over picture in no particular order.

Subject: abstract; non-representational

Credit: Purchased from Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, 1990

Catalogue Number: StJ.12.02

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Moffat's Dairy

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Date: 1973

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ShM.05.01

Description: Colour: green, grey. On the right side is the corner of a wooden building, flowers in the window box and on the ground. Grassy yard fills lower quarter. Three or our buildings are in the center. A truck is in front. Trees are behind and a mountain beyond. Sky fills the upper two corners.

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Title: Moffat's Dairy

Date: 1973

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 33.0 x 50.0 cm

Description: Colour: green, grey. On the right side is the corner of a wooden building, flowers in the window box and on the ground. Grassy yard fills lower quarter. Three or our buildings are in the center. A truck is in front. Trees are behind and a mountain beyond. Sky fills the upper two corners.

Subject: landscape; mountain; architecture, rural

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1974

Catalogue Number: ShM.05.01

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Mount Assiniboine

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Date: 1971

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.01

Description: General colour: white and grey with yellow and tints of purple and green. At the right side stands a yellow tree with snow down it's right side. At the bottom left side is a lake, frozen clear, the trees and mountains beyond are reflected in it. Two snowy peaks give way to grey sky.

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Artist: Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian)

Title: Mount Assiniboine

Date: 1971

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 35.2 x 54.3 cm

Description: General colour: white and grey with yellow and tints of purple and green. At the right side stands a yellow tree with snow down it's right side. At the bottom left side is a lake, frozen clear, the trees and mountains beyond are reflected in it. Two snowy peaks give way to grey sky.