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Pink Metallic

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Artist: Adrian Cooke (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 1997 – 1997

Medium: enamel; laquer on wood

Catalogue Number: CkA.16.01

Description: An overall metallic pink enamel over a large, thick piece of wood. Many layers of wood grain are visible through the enamel.

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Artist: Adrian Cooke (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Pink Metallic

Date: 1997 – 1997

Medium: enamel; laquer on wood

Dimensions: 122.0 x 122.0 cm

Description: An overall metallic pink enamel over a large, thick piece of wood. Many layers of wood grain are visible through the enamel.

Subject: abstract; non-representational

Credit: Gift of Adrian Cooke, Lethbridge, 1999

Catalogue Number: CkA.16.01

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Seal Thoughts of Man

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Artist: Akesuk Tudlik (1890 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1959

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: TuD.04.01

Description: Black silhouette of a man with arms up, standing on the head of a seal (head and shoulders of the seal); features cut out with red in the eyes and the seal’s nose.

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Artist: Akesuk Tudlik (1890 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Seal Thoughts of Man

Date: 1959

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 61.0 x 20.6 cm

Description: Black silhouette of a man with arms up, standing on the head of a seal (head and shoulders of the seal); features cut out with red in the eyes and the seal’s nose.

Subject: Abstract; Figure; Inuit; Animal; seal

Credit: Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988

Catalogue Number: TuD.04.01

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To Smell Balsam

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Artist: Alex Simeon Janvier (1935 – , Canadian)

Date: 1975

Medium: gouache on paper

Catalogue Number: JvA.07.01

Description: General colour: green. Long green configurations move across from left to right several tendrils break off from the main line upwards and downwards. The central shape is a slanted 'N' shape.

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Artist: Alex Simeon Janvier (1935 – , Canadian)

Title: To Smell Balsam

Date: 1975

Medium: gouache on paper

Dimensions: 59.0 x 77.5 cm

Description: General colour: green. Long green configurations move across from left to right several tendrils break off from the main line upwards and downwards. The central shape is a slanted 'N' shape.

Subject: mythological; abstract, non-representational

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

Catalogue Number: JvA.07.01

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Follow-up

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Artist: Alex Simeon Janvier (1935 – , Canadian)

Date: 1964

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: JvA.05.01

Description: General colour: red, blue on white. A horizontal shape cuts the picture in half. Another shape goes up from that to the upper edge left of center. A single orange line comes down to the left lower edge. Four large orange dots sit at the outsides of the main shape.

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Artist: Alex Simeon Janvier (1935 – , Canadian)

Title: Follow-up

Date: 1964

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 37.0 x 25.5 cm

Description: General colour: red, blue on white. A horizontal shape cuts the picture in half. Another shape goes up from that to the upper edge left of center. A single orange line comes down to the left lower edge. Four large orange dots sit at the outsides of the main shape.

Subject: mythological; abstract, non-representational

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

Catalogue Number: JvA.05.01

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Untitled Landscape #2

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Artist: Allan Harding MacKay (1944 – , Canadian)

Date: 1984

Medium: oil; pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: MkA.02.01

Description: Overall colour blue, blue/green with yellow throughout middle and top half; an abstract interpretation depicting either clouds and mountains or waves on the ocean. Signed and dated in the BRC

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Artist: Allan Harding MacKay (1944 – , Canadian)

Title: Untitled Landscape #2

Date: 1984

Medium: oil; pastel on paper

Dimensions: 57.5 x 43.5 cm

Description: Overall colour blue, blue/green with yellow throughout middle and top half; an abstract interpretation depicting either clouds and mountains or waves on the ocean. Signed and dated in the BRC

Subject: landscape; mountain; abstract

Credit: Gift of Allan Harding MacKay, Banff, 1986

Catalogue Number: MkA.02.01

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Thunder

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Artist: Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian)

Date: 1990

Medium: oil; acrylic on canvas

Catalogue Number: MiB.02.01

Description: A large red mass dominates the painting, from the foreground blue, green, yellow tube-shapes spiral upwards, top left corner is blue

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Artist: Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian)

Title: Thunder

Date: 1990

Medium: oil; acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 167.6 x 160.0 cm

Description: A large red mass dominates the painting, from the foreground blue, green, yellow tube-shapes spiral upwards, top left corner is blue

Subject: abstract; expressionist

Credit: Gift of Barbara Milne, Calgary, 1992

Catalogue Number: MiB.02.01

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Untitled

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: photograph on paper

Catalogue Number: SpB.18.31

Description: Darkly lit photograph of tin cans with paper coated straws, a glass bottle with flowers coming out of the top. Reflected in upper left is outline of two profile faces.

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Artist: Barbara Spohr (1955 – 1987, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: n.d.

Medium: photograph on paper

Dimensions: 50.6 x 40.4 cm

Description: Darkly lit photograph of tin cans with paper coated straws, a glass bottle with flowers coming out of the top. Reflected in upper left is outline of two profile faces.