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Beach Combers, Burrard Inlet, B.C.

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

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.38

Description: A coastal seascape of Burrard Inlet, BC, shows a floating house or shack in the centre right of the image. It has a railing running around it and a covered porch. A walkway runs from the shore at the bottom of the image to the shack. Part of another shack is cropped at the left of the image. L…

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

Title: Beach Combers, Burrard Inlet, B.C.

Date: n.d.

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: A coastal seascape of Burrard Inlet, BC, shows a floating house or shack in the centre right of the image. It has a railing running around it and a covered porch. A walkway runs from the shore at the bottom of the image to the shack. Part of another shack is cropped at the left of the image. Logs are floating around these buildings. Beyond the buildings is Burrard Inlet on which there are two or three boats. A dock runs out the boats in the upper left corner. Beyond, at the top of the image are Coast mountains, some covered in snow.

Subject: landscape; coastal; seascape; Pacific; British Columbia; Burrard Inlet, mountains, Coast

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 2001

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.38

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Moyie, B.C.

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: serigraph on paper

Catalogue Number: BwA.04.02

Description: General colours: blue with green. One third up is water. Then green shore with a building left and right of water. Up further in the center is a white church with a blue roof. Tree behind and hills and mountains beyond. There is sky in upper left corner.

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Artist: Annora Brown (1899 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Moyie, B.C.

Date: n.d.

Medium: serigraph on paper

Dimensions: 17.6 x 25 cm

Description: General colours: blue with green. One third up is water. Then green shore with a building left and right of water. Up further in the center is a white church with a blue roof. Tree behind and hills and mountains beyond. There is sky in upper left corner.

Subject: landscape; water; mountains; British Columbia; architecture; church

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977

Catalogue Number: BwA.04.02

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Tofino Paintings

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

Date: 1943 – 1977

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.234 a-i

Description: a) A yellow envelope that has a red Ottawa, Canada stamp dated for April 25, 1977 in the TRC, in the TLC printed it says “Office of The Prime Minister Ottawa, Canada K1A 0A2 Cabinet du Premier Ministre”. Tapped in the middle is the address it is being mailed to, it says “Tofino Paintings here (Banf…

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

Title: Tofino Paintings

Date: 1943 – 1977

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 24.2 x 30.3 cm

Description: a) A yellow envelope that has a red Ottawa, Canada stamp dated for April 25, 1977 in the TRC, in the TLC printed it says “Office of The Prime Minister Ottawa, Canada K1A 0A2 Cabinet du Premier Ministre”. Tapped in the middle is the address it is being mailed to, it says “Tofino Paintings here (Banff) 1 of [sic: can’t make out the work after of] Mrs. Catharine R. Whyte, P.O. Box 370, Banff, Alberta OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER - CABINET DU PREMIER MINISTRE OTTAWA K1A 0A2”. b)Sketch of a an inlet, there is a mountain to the right with some quick pencil marks to establish trees at the base and across the water near the right edge. There is also outlines for mist. Surrounding the sketch there are notes on the structure of the painting and what colours to use: “very misty, blue green about right, darker than in painting, mist behind trees, white, pale pink peach, peach - same value sky -, more orange, yellow green, white, fig, pinkish lavender hills, 4, 3, yellow, blue, pale, [sic can not make out] dark, pale yellow green blue & shy reflec., pink in stores, pale brown, 5, reflection, pink, wind pale blue, dark reflection, some pink, merges, darkest green, sky about right green in trees on island”. c) Quick sketch of a mountain, trees and a body of water. Around the drawing there is notes on colour and structure for future paintings : “misty above, faint hits light lavender hue, orange light, fog flat bluish fog, green, dark, soft lavender blue reflection, reflect of trees lighter than trees, orange wind - pale yellowish no pink”. d) A sketch of what appears to be a mountains landscape next to water. There is a printed inscription on the paper that says “Mail order Tofino, B.C. Nov. 24, 1943.”. As well there is references to colour and structure to be used on an artwork later on: “bluer flecks of pale green pink, more pinkish lavender, patch pale green sky , soft sweet pea pink, bright pinkish yellow, blueish lavender, blueish green, dark green, dark green blue, pink reflection, blue, pinkish, redish [sic] brownish purple”. Verso: another sketch of an inlet with a mountain, water and trees. Throughout the drawing it is filled with artist notes: “sweet pea cloud, soft edges, pale greenish stripe [sic] sky, sweet pea lavender, blue violet, deep pink, 2 darker blue green, 3 blackish green, steal blue, dark reflect, pink reflection, blue, pink, blueish greenish grey water wind, pinkish stripe , lavender, sand reddish brown”. e) A drawing of trees on the edge of water. In the sketch there is artist notes that say: “pinkish orangish haze on hills, greenish sky, light blue, dark green, light blue”. f) Sketch of trees on water. Around the drawing it says “sort of green relect, reflect of trees fades off, pinkist near edge, outs - [sic], dark where pebbles reflect sky are”. g) Multiple sections of trees bordered by the ocean. Around the drawing there is artist notes: “ paler sky - little orange in yellow, value trees about reflect, darker beach - little blue in white fog, light, light, dark, dark, wind whitish blue, [sic can not make out first word] reflect”. h) Sketch of a mountain with clouds all around, and trees. Throughout the drawing it says “5, 7, 8, bluish grey white, lighter grey, 6, 4, greenish, darkest, 2, 3, 3, light silver, 9”. i) Along top edge it says “Cold blue above, laven d [sic lavender] yellow greenish blue. robins egg - brilliant orange sunrise top part more pinkish blue -”.

Subject: beach, British Columbia; water, ocean; tree; vegetation; mountain

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.234 a-i

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The Fraser River at Yale BC

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Artist: Charles Jones Way (1835 – 1919, British)

Date: c. 1900

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WaC.05.01

Description: River winding through rocky mountains. River is calm in foreground and rougher in background. 4 figures on beach with two canoes at center right. Another figure with white pack horse on rocky outcrop above. Mountains primarily brown and grey with one snowcapped peak in distance. Trees and other shr…

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Artist: Charles Jones Way (1835 – 1919, British)

Title: The Fraser River at Yale BC

Date: c. 1900

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 52.0 x 75.5 cm

Description: River winding through rocky mountains. River is calm in foreground and rougher in background. 4 figures on beach with two canoes at center right. Another figure with white pack horse on rocky outcrop above. Mountains primarily brown and grey with one snowcapped peak in distance. Trees and other shrubbery on rocky outcrop at right and on slopes at left and center distance. “CJ (overlapping) Way YALE BC” in red at lower right. In ornately carved gold painted wood frame with glass. White tag from Masters Gallery Ltd. on back.

Subject: mountains; Fraser River; British Columbia; landscape; canoeing; horses

Credit: Gift of Robyn L Fulton, 2021

Catalogue Number: WaC.05.01

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The Okanagan Valley

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Artist: Cyril Harris ( – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1941

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: HaC.05.03

Description: Countryside scene, green farm fields and orchards in foreground, trees and buildings in mid-distance, hills in background. One large tree in foreground at left, another on on the right.

Artist: Cyril Harris ( – 1966, Canadian)

Title: The Okanagan Valley

Date: 1941

Medium: watercolour on paper

Description: Countryside scene, green farm fields and orchards in foreground, trees and buildings in mid-distance, hills in background. One large tree in foreground at left, another on on the right.