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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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Kitwanga

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

Date: prior to 1973

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.081

Description: Three totem poles, mountains behind.

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

Title: Kitwanga

Date: prior to 1973

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: Three totem poles, mountains behind.

Subject: religious; totem pole; landscape; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.081

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Bow Lake

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

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.241

Description: The light and dark turquoise of Bow Lake is placed in the middleground. At the base of the picture, the lake is described by a horizontal stroke of light grey and by a number of vertical brushstrokes of turquoise. The vegetation in front of the lake, in the lower left and right corners, contains th…

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

Title: Bow Lake

Date: 1950 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: The light and dark turquoise of Bow Lake is placed in the middleground. At the base of the picture, the lake is described by a horizontal stroke of light grey and by a number of vertical brushstrokes of turquoise. The vegetation in front of the lake, in the lower left and right corners, contains the same dark green, and light violet-grey found in the background. The violet-grey is used to indicate: the snow covering the dark violet-grey mountain on the right; the rock forming the more distant peak on the left; and a lighter tint of this colour forms the clouds in the upper left corner. A separate area of blue-grey clouds occupies the upper right corner.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.241

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Tack Shed at Num-Ti-Jah

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

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas on masonite

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.283

Description: View of a cabin with tall mountains in the distance. In the centre of the background is found a distinctive triangular peak covered in snow. The peak's exposed rock is coloured brown-grey. Two mountains, partially obscured by trees, are located on either side of the centre peak-on the left, a blue-…

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

Title: Tack Shed at Num-Ti-Jah

Date: 1950 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas on masonite

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: View of a cabin with tall mountains in the distance. In the centre of the background is found a distinctive triangular peak covered in snow. The peak's exposed rock is coloured brown-grey. Two mountains, partially obscured by trees, are located on either side of the centre peak-on the left, a blue-grey mountainside slopes downwards and on the right is a rounded summit with a line white snow dividing the crown from the lower slopes. In the right foreground, a brown cabin (with a red-brown roof and an open front door) sits in a meadow surrounded by tall evergreens. To the left of the front of the cabin, a brown horse is tied to a wooden railing.