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Artist
Gordon Adaskin, R. C. A. (1931 – 2001, Canadian)
Date
1968
Catalogue Number
AkG.13.01
Description
Down the left side are dark blue and pale yellow narrow vertical stripes. Another quarter of the picture in from left side is a patch of pale yellow, which almost goes to the bottom. Beside it in the center is a very narrow vertical black line - wider at the top. The rest is white shapes on top of …
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Title
Bright Outside
Date
1968
Dimensions
49.7 x 72.0 cm
Description
Down the left side are dark blue and pale yellow narrow vertical stripes. Another quarter of the picture in from left side is a patch of pale yellow, which almost goes to the bottom. Beside it in the center is a very narrow vertical black line - wider at the top. The rest is white shapes on top of white ground.
Credit
Purchased from Griffith Galleries, Vancouver, 1969
Catalogue Number
AkG.13.01
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Rocky Mountain Suite #2

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Artist
Jerry F. Grey
Date
c. 1974
Medium
watercolour; liquitex on paper
Catalogue Number
GrJ.05.01
Description
General colour: yellow. A surface gridded in varying densities of the same colour. In every square of sixteen small squares there is a white triangle in the lower left corner.
Artist
Jerry F. Grey
Title
Rocky Mountain Suite #2
Date
c. 1974
Medium
watercolour; liquitex on paper
Dimensions
41.3 x 58.4 cm
Description
General colour: yellow. A surface gridded in varying densities of the same colour. In every square of sixteen small squares there is a white triangle in the lower left corner.
Subject
abstract
non-representational
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
Catalogue Number
GrJ.05.01
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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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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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Artist
Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)
Date
1967
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Catalogue Number
WiS.12.01
Description
General colour: Primaries and secondaries. The four sides are all similtaneously used as a base for four scenes. Moving counter clockwise: 1. Two figures by a lake with a canoe, mountains in the background. 2. A house with a blue car parked outside and two teepees next door. 3. A train, a flying sa…
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Artist
Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)
Title
Quadra Vision
Date
1967
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
61 x 76.2 cm
Description
General colour: Primaries and secondaries. The four sides are all similtaneously used as a base for four scenes. Moving counter clockwise: 1. Two figures by a lake with a canoe, mountains in the background. 2. A house with a blue car parked outside and two teepees next door. 3. A train, a flying saucer and a deep sea diver. 4. A river, on one bank, a farm on the other, a city. Superimposed on all this are geometric shapes that were used in 1967 as a Canadian centenial logs.
Subject
abstract, non-representational
Credit
Purchased from Sitting Wind, 1967
Catalogue Number
WiS.12.01
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Artist
Dirk Van Wyk (1944 – , Canadian)
Date
1976
Medium
watercolour; chalk on paper
Catalogue Number
VwD.03.01
Description
Colour: blue and green on white. Upper half is blue watercolour markings. However half is green and pencil scratches. Somewhat non-representational and looks like it's upside down.
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Artist
Dirk Van Wyk (1944 – , Canadian)
Title
Untitled
Date
1976
Medium
watercolour; chalk on paper
Dimensions
55.0 x 73.7 cm
Description
Colour: blue and green on white. Upper half is blue watercolour markings. However half is green and pencil scratches. Somewhat non-representational and looks like it's upside down.
Subject
abstract, non-representational
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1978
Catalogue Number
VwD.03.01
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Artist
Jon Whyte (1941 – 1992, Canadian)
Date
1974
Medium
serigraph on paper
Catalogue Number
WyJ.04.01
Description
Names of mountain flowers are run together in straight rows of various colours - red, blue, yellow which produce secondary colours as they overlap. The predominant colour is yellow which appears to be the background with red and blue overlays to produce a tartan effect. The concept and design was b…
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Artist
Jon Whyte (1941 – 1992, Canadian)
Title
Mountain Tartan
Date
1974
Medium
serigraph on paper
Dimensions
42.0;50.7 x 46.0;67.2 cm
Description
Names of mountain flowers are run together in straight rows of various colours - red, blue, yellow which produce secondary colours as they overlap. The predominant colour is yellow which appears to be the background with red and blue overlays to produce a tartan effect. The concept and design was by Jon Whyte; the printing was done by Sue Nash and Virginia Lemieux at the Banff Centre Print Shop, both were students in Banff Centre programme.
Subject
abstract
non-representational
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyJ.04.01
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Artist
Dennis Burton (1933 – 2013, Canadian)
Date
1981
Medium
coloured inks on paper
Catalogue Number
BuD.03.01
Description
Each of the five layers that are in this image exhibit qualities of texture and tonality. Each layer is placed on top of another layer; looks very much like the layers of the earth.
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Artist
Dennis Burton (1933 – 2013, Canadian)
Title
HK Series I/12
Date
1981
Medium
coloured inks on paper
Dimensions
60.0 x 45.0 cm
Description
Each of the five layers that are in this image exhibit qualities of texture and tonality. Each layer is placed on top of another layer; looks very much like the layers of the earth.
Subject
landscape
abstract
non-representational
Credit
Purchased from Dennis Burton, 1982
Catalogue Number
BuD.03.01
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Artist
Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)
Date
1967
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
GyH.03.02
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Artist
Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)
Title
Abstract Sketch
Date
1967
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
15.2 x 8.3 cm
Subject
abstract
non-representational
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
GyH.03.02
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Artist
Marion Florence Nicoll (1909 – 1985, Canadian)
Date
1974
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
NiM.05.03
Description
An non-representational shape dominates centre front, it is outlined in black, circle to the left with a tail-like feature towards top right, the background has various shapes, lighter at left
Artist
Marion Florence Nicoll (1909 – 1985, Canadian)
Title
Automatic
Date
1974
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
15.0 x 28.3 cm
Description
An non-representational shape dominates centre front, it is outlined in black, circle to the left with a tail-like feature towards top right, the background has various shapes, lighter at left
Subject
abstract, non-representational
Credit
Purchased from Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 1979
Catalogue Number
NiM.05.03
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