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Skunk Cabbage

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.02

Description: Bottom two thirds is a purple blue pool of water out of which grows six large yellow and green plants. On the edge of the pool brown ferns grow. The upper third is green weeds and fern.

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Skunk Cabbage

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 39.2 x 57.4 cm

Description: Bottom two thirds is a purple blue pool of water out of which grows six large yellow and green plants. On the edge of the pool brown ferns grow. The upper third is green weeds and fern.

Subject: botanical; skunk cabbage; weeds; fern

Credit: Purchased from Jean Gill, Calgary, 1974

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.02

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Snow Lily

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.03

Description: General colour: green and brown with yellow flowers. To the left, three yellow lilies grow from two plants. To the right six yellow lilies grow from one plant, three from another. Small three leaf ground plants grow at the bottom of the picture. Bare twigs fill the background.

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Snow Lily

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.2 x 34.9 cm

Description: General colour: green and brown with yellow flowers. To the left, three yellow lilies grow from two plants. To the right six yellow lilies grow from one plant, three from another. Small three leaf ground plants grow at the bottom of the picture. Bare twigs fill the background.

Subject: botanical; snow lilies; twigs

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.03

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Anemone

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.01

Description: A large grey and brown rock takes up half of the picture. In the upper right five white flowers peek over the rock. In the upper left four white and five yellow flowers grow. In the center amonst grass are nine white and eight yellow flowers. To the right and left are two white flowers respectively.

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Anemone

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 39.2 x 57.5 cm

Description: A large grey and brown rock takes up half of the picture. In the upper right five white flowers peek over the rock. In the upper left four white and five yellow flowers grow. In the center amonst grass are nine white and eight yellow flowers. To the right and left are two white flowers respectively.

Subject: botanical; anemone

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.01

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Purple Crocus

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: 1987

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.04

Description: Two crocus flowers with stems and leaves, and some grass and stems on a black background. The crocus in the foreground is drooping to the viewer’s left; the open/inside part of the petals are lilac, the underside/outside are purple and the centres yellow and gold. The crocus on top is turned away f…

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Purple Crocus

Date: 1987

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 31.0 x 23.5 cm

Description: Two crocus flowers with stems and leaves, and some grass and stems on a black background. The crocus in the foreground is drooping to the viewer’s left; the open/inside part of the petals are lilac, the underside/outside are purple and the centres yellow and gold. The crocus on top is turned away from the viewer showing mostly the outside of the petals and some yellow inside. The crocus stems and feathery leaves are green and brown. The other grasses and stems are rust, yellow and brown.

Subject: botanical; flower; crocus

Credit: Purchased from mid, Banff, 2009

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.04

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Wood Lily

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: 1987

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: BwA.05.05

Description: General colours orange, green, yellow, brown, grey and white on a black background. A single wood lily with stem and leaves and other stems/grass. The single flower head is centred but leaning toward the viewer’s left. The petals are light and dark orange, dots of brown as they turn yellow towards …

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Wood Lily

Date: 1987

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: General colours orange, green, yellow, brown, grey and white on a black background. A single wood lily with stem and leaves and other stems/grass. The single flower head is centred but leaning toward the viewer’s left. The petals are light and dark orange, dots of brown as they turn yellow towards the base. The petals narrow on the ends and at the base giving a see-through aspect; the black background is visible through the base of the flower head. The stamens are brown and grey and the stems is two shades of green. The narrow, long leaves are light green with darker green running through. There are other stems or grasses of white and green.