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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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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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To The Morning

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1970

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: StS.05.04

Description: Colour: brown, red, blue, black on yellow. A bare-breasted woman with a baby in a cradleboard on her back strides towards the viewer’s left side of the painting. A black dog, with his red tongue hanging out, follows the high top moccasins in her left hand. She carries a white shawl in her right han…

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Artist: Sarain Stump (1945 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: To The Morning

Date: 1970

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 27.8 x 35.5 cm

Description: Colour: brown, red, blue, black on yellow. A bare-breasted woman with a baby in a cradleboard on her back strides towards the viewer’s left side of the painting. A black dog, with his red tongue hanging out, follows the high top moccasins in her left hand. She carries a white shawl in her right hand and wears a blue, red, green and white skirt. A smaller image of the woman and the dog are seen in the red oval which sits right of center on the red horizon line.Au verso: “TO THE MORNING”

Subject: figure, female; animal, dog; mythological

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

Catalogue Number: StS.05.04

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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: 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.