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Mount Rundle

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

Date: 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.04

Description: Dominant colours are purple, green, blue, brown, grey, yellow, and white. The painting is dominated by Mount Rundle and a cloud-filled blue sky. The foreground is grey rocks, a dead tree with the brown tree trunk and branches reaching right, above that coniferous trees viewer’s right; the middle fo…

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

Title: Mount Rundle

Date: 1959

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 50.5 x 70.5 cm

Description: Dominant colours are purple, green, blue, brown, grey, yellow, and white. The painting is dominated by Mount Rundle and a cloud-filled blue sky. The foreground is grey rocks, a dead tree with the brown tree trunk and branches reaching right, above that coniferous trees viewer’s right; the middle foreground is made up of grey pebbles and small rocks with coniferous trees behind, the sun is shining on the mid- foreground and the viewer’s right highlighting the ground and trees. To the viewer’s right there is a pile of grey, brown, and beige rocks with two coniferous trees above and some yellow and brown bushes to the right of that; to the very far right the Bow River is visible and also above the bushes it is snaking its way through the valley toward Canmore. A purple-hued with some blue Tunnel (Buffalo) Mountain is in front of Mount Rundle. Mount Rundle is purple, grey, blue, pink and white with green patches to the right. The ranges on the viewer’s left are purple, grey and white and to the right of Mount Rundle they are blue, grey and white. The sky above which comprises one-third of the painting has more clouds than blue sky. The clouds are white, grey, brown growing into purple, grey and yellowish hues to the viewer’s right.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Rundle Mountain; Janet Holly Middleton

Credit: Gift of Mary Garnham Andrews, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: MiJ.05.04

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Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

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

Date: prior to 1970

Medium: serigraph on paper

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.01

Description: General colour: blues, greens, purple. The lower half is a white and turquoise green, winter lake with two trees in the lower right corner. The upper half is mountains, three peaks, and a pass. The sky is grey green.

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

Title: Bow Lake, Crowfoot Glacier

Date: prior to 1970

Medium: serigraph on paper

Dimensions: 13.9 x 29.1 cm

Description: General colour: blues, greens, purple. The lower half is a white and turquoise green, winter lake with two trees in the lower right corner. The upper half is mountains, three peaks, and a pass. The sky is grey green.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: MiJ.04.01

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Peaks 3 and 4, Moraine Lake

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.083

Description: Moraine Lake and Mount Bowlen and Tonsa.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Peaks 3 and 4, Moraine Lake

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Description: Moraine Lake and Mount Bowlen and Tonsa.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Moraine Lake; Mt. Bowlen; Tonsa

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.083

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Hillsdale

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.008

Description: Yellow trees dot a hill that slopes to the foreground. The dark green mountain side creates a band in the mid ground separating the mountain peaks behind it from the slopes in the foreground.

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Hillsdale

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 12.6 x 17.8 cm

Description: Yellow trees dot a hill that slopes to the foreground. The dark green mountain side creates a band in the mid ground separating the mountain peaks behind it from the slopes in the foreground.