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Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.28

Description: In the foreground on the left is a small group of trees and rocky ground leading down to a waters edge. In the mid-ground on the right is another group of trees and ground that meets the water. Just behind the trees is Bow Lake and in the background are snow capped mountains and Crowfoot Glacier. T…

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Artist: Alfred Crocker Leighton, R. C. A. (1901 – 1965, Canadian)

Title: Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier

Date: prior to 1965

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: In the foreground on the left is a small group of trees and rocky ground leading down to a waters edge. In the mid-ground on the right is another group of trees and ground that meets the water. Just behind the trees is Bow Lake and in the background are snow capped mountains and Crowfoot Glacier. The sky has many gray clouds with small areas of blue sky showing through.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountains; lake; Bow lake; glacier; Crowfoot Glacier

Credit: Gift of James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 1997

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.28

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Road to the Ice

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 1993

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: SmA.02.02

Description: Undulating shapes in shades of brown form the mountainside full frame, green foliage in bottom left corner, from blc a grey road winds up hill. White of the glacier at top left and at bottom right. On back of painting: Road to the Ice Columbia Icefield oil on location August 4, 1993

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Artist: Alice Saltiel (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Road to the Ice

Date: 1993

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 30.6 x 40.8 cm

Description: Undulating shapes in shades of brown form the mountainside full frame, green foliage in bottom left corner, from blc a grey road winds up hill. White of the glacier at top left and at bottom right. On back of painting: Road to the Ice Columbia Icefield oil on location August 4, 1993

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier; Reframing the Landscape

Credit: Purchased from Alice Saltiel, Canmore, 1994

Catalogue Number: SmA.02.02

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Angel Glacier

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Artist: Alison Houston Lockerbie Newton (1890 – 1967, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: NeA.04.01

Description: Angel Glacier extends through the lower half of the print toward the bottom right corner. It is white and green. A white and purple, snow-covered slope takes up the bottom left corner. Rocky walls are on either side of the glacier. Mt. Edith Cavell is visible behind the glacier.

Artist: Alison Houston Lockerbie Newton (1890 – 1967, Canadian)

Title: Angel Glacier

Date: n.d.

Medium: ink on paper

Description: Angel Glacier extends through the lower half of the print toward the bottom right corner. It is white and green. A white and purple, snow-covered slope takes up the bottom left corner. Rocky walls are on either side of the glacier. Mt. Edith Cavell is visible behind the glacier.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Angel Glacier; Mt. Edith Cavell

Credit: Purchased from Canadian Art Gallery, Canmore, 2004

Catalogue Number: NeA.04.01

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Garibaldi Park 1941

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Artist: B.A. Fry

Date: 1941

Medium: woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: FrB.04.01

Description: General colour: blue and green. Night scene. Two tents can be seen, one in the foreground amongst trees at the left side; the other, (a yellow one) in the background at the right side. A large peak rises up on the left side. To the upper right in the distance is a glacier and one star peeking out f…

Artist: B.A. Fry

Title: Garibaldi Park 1941

Date: 1941

Medium: woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 15.8 x 21.2 cm

Description: General colour: blue and green. Night scene. Two tents can be seen, one in the foreground amongst trees at the left side; the other, (a yellow one) in the background at the right side. A large peak rises up on the left side. To the upper right in the distance is a glacier and one star peeking out from under clouds.

Subject: landscape; mountains; tepee; glacier

Credit: Gift of Jim Walls, 1970

Catalogue Number: FrB.04.01

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Icefield Series – B

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Artist: Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian)

Date: 1993

Medium: charcoal; chalk on paper

Catalogue Number: MiB.03.02

Description: Mountain dominates almost full frame, icefield centred top, foreground dark with hint of colours green and brown. Sky blue with tinge of green.

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Artist: Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian)

Title: Icefield Series – B

Date: 1993

Medium: charcoal; chalk on paper

Dimensions: 52.5 x 72.4 cm

Description: Mountain dominates almost full frame, icefield centred top, foreground dark with hint of colours green and brown. Sky blue with tinge of green.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier, Columbia Icefield

Credit: Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 1994

Catalogue Number: MiB.03.02

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Icefield Series – A

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Artist: Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian)

Date: 1993

Medium: charcoal; chalk on paper

Catalogue Number: MiB.03.01

Description: Icefield fans out from centre near top to the foreground. Mountain frames the foreground and both sides with shades of green, yellow and brown. Blue sky has long dark streaks.

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Artist: Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian)

Title: Icefield Series – A

Date: 1993

Medium: charcoal; chalk on paper

Dimensions: 52.5 x 72.4 cm

Description: Icefield fans out from centre near top to the foreground. Mountain frames the foreground and both sides with shades of green, yellow and brown. Blue sky has long dark streaks.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; glacier, Columbia Icefield

Credit: Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 1994

Catalogue Number: MiB.03.01

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Icefield Series - C

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Artist: Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian)

Date: 1993

Medium: charcoal; chalk on paper

Catalogue Number: MiB.03.03

Description: The mountain dominates to almost top of picture. Icefield at top right and down to right foreground. Mountain is mostly black with contours of light and dark with shades of green, brown and yellow. The sky is lightly streaked blue.

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Artist: Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian)

Title: Icefield Series - C

Date: 1993

Medium: charcoal; chalk on paper

Dimensions: 52.5 x 72.5 cm

Description: The mountain dominates to almost top of picture. Icefield at top right and down to right foreground. Mountain is mostly black with contours of light and dark with shades of green, brown and yellow. The sky is lightly streaked blue.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; mountain; Columbia Icefield; glacier

Credit: Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 1994

Catalogue Number: MiB.03.03

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Bow Glacier

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: BwB.02.04

Description: Colour: blue, green. The lower half is green grass with evergreens along the shore of the lake which appears at left of center. The upper half is blue and purple and white mountains. Sky goes along the top.

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Artist: Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)

Title: Bow Glacier

Date: 1928

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 29.0 x 40.0 cm

Description: Colour: blue, green. The lower half is green grass with evergreens along the shore of the lake which appears at left of center. The upper half is blue and purple and white mountains. Sky goes along the top.