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Indian Head

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Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Date: 1976

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.08

Description: Colours blue, black, orange, yellow, gold; a stylized head in left centre of picture; long blue and gold earrings; a continuous line runs to centre left of picture, all very stylized, could be a lance with feathers hanging from it; the design at his neck resembles a bird's head; the background is l…

Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Title: Indian Head

Date: 1976

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Dimensions: 35.5 x 45.5 cm

Description: Colours blue, black, orange, yellow, gold; a stylized head in left centre of picture; long blue and gold earrings; a continuous line runs to centre left of picture, all very stylized, could be a lance with feathers hanging from it; the design at his neck resembles a bird's head; the background is left white.

Subject: mythological; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.08

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Indian Legend

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Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Date: 1976

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.07

Description: Colours gold, black, orange, yellow, blue, green; a stylized bird with a bear inside; object in centre of picture rest of background left white.

Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Title: Indian Legend

Date: 1976

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Dimensions: 35.5 x 45.5 cm

Description: Colours gold, black, orange, yellow, blue, green; a stylized bird with a bear inside; object in centre of picture rest of background left white.

Subject: mythological

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

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.07

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Indian Legend

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Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Date: 1976

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.06

Description: A stylized open painting, colours yellow, orange, gold and black; symbols non-representational; background unpainted - left white.

Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Title: Indian Legend

Date: 1976

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Dimensions: 35.5 x 45.5 cm

Description: A stylized open painting, colours yellow, orange, gold and black; symbols non-representational; background unpainted - left white.

Subject: mythological

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

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.06

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Indian Legend

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Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Date: 1976

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.05

Description: Colours yellow, orange, gold and black stylized animals and birds; open drawing background left white.

Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Title: Indian Legend

Date: 1976

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Dimensions: 30.5 x 41.0 cm

Description: Colours yellow, orange, gold and black stylized animals and birds; open drawing background left white.

Subject: mythological

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

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.05

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Yellow Totem Pole

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Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Date: 1973

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.09

Description: The image is centered with a great deal of white background on all sides; the image appears to be a totem pole, yellow; other images extend from it, these are red with black.

Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Title: Yellow Totem Pole

Date: 1973

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Dimensions: 25.5;50.4 x 17.5;40.4 cm

Description: The image is centered with a great deal of white background on all sides; the image appears to be a totem pole, yellow; other images extend from it, these are red with black.

Subject: mythological

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

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.09

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Evening, Lake O'Hara

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Artist: Richard Jack (1866 – 1952, Canadian)

Date: 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: JkR.02.02

Description: In the foreground on the right side of the painting there are four green trees and a shore made out of mostly rocks. To the left and along the bottom edge a lake of bluegreen water sits in front of a brown mountain range. The mountains have snow on parts of the peaks and the sky is blue with white …

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Artist: Richard Jack (1866 – 1952, Canadian)

Title: Evening, Lake O'Hara

Date: 1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 69.9 x 90.0 cm

Description: In the foreground on the right side of the painting there are four green trees and a shore made out of mostly rocks. To the left and along the bottom edge a lake of bluegreen water sits in front of a brown mountain range. The mountains have snow on parts of the peaks and the sky is blue with white clouds.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; lake; Lake O'Hara

Credit: Gift of Donald Grace, Saanichton, 1996

Catalogue Number: JkR.02.02

Notes: Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018

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Untitled

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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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Untitled

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Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Date: 1970 – 1975

Medium: acrylic on heavy watercolour paper

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.04

Description: Stylized painting, Indigenous man’s head all in red. Unfinished.

Artist: Brian Joseph Grandbois

Title: Untitled

Date: 1970 – 1975

Medium: acrylic on heavy watercolour paper

Dimensions: 16.5 x 22.0 cm

Description: Stylized painting, Indigenous man’s head all in red. Unfinished.

Subject: mythological; Indigenous

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

Catalogue Number: GrB.12.04

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Untitled

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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.