topic:"architecture" found 73 records - Research Collections

Banff Campgrounds

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Date: 1947

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ShM.05.02

Description: A brown picnic shelter and a pitched white tent are side by side on a green slope, the slope runs down to the right. Some large evergreen trees are behind them and a blue sky with fluffy white clouds covers the top half of the picture.

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Artist: Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915 – 1984, Canadian)

Title: Banff Campgrounds

Date: 1947

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 26.0 x 36.0 cm

Description: A brown picnic shelter and a pitched white tent are side by side on a green slope, the slope runs down to the right. Some large evergreen trees are behind them and a blue sky with fluffy white clouds covers the top half of the picture.

Subject: landscape; mountain; architecture, rural

Credit: Purchased from Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 1983

Catalogue Number: ShM.05.02

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Bankhead Foundations

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

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas on aluminum

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.223

Description: The great rock formation juts out of the lime coloured grass in the middle centre. Some large blue green evergreens create a natural barrier between the foreground and background. A smeared array of greens implies a deep forest beyond the rise in the foreground. The blue mountains stretch across th…

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

Title: Bankhead Foundations

Date: 1945 – 1950

Medium: oil on canvas on aluminum

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: The great rock formation juts out of the lime coloured grass in the middle centre. Some large blue green evergreens create a natural barrier between the foreground and background. A smeared array of greens implies a deep forest beyond the rise in the foreground. The blue mountains stretch across the horizon line. Pale blue sky with low lying cloud cover dominates the top 1/3 of the sketch.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; architecture

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.223

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Barracks near Calgary

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1944

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.232

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Barracks near Calgary

Date: 1944

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27.6 x 35.3 cm

Subject: landscape; urban; architecture, barracks; military

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.01.232

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BC Scenic Views

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 52 b&w prints of various scenic views around British Columbia. Includes views overlooking towns, skiing, beaches, A-frame cabins, highways, rivers, portraits, and the inner harbour & Empress Hotel in Victoria.

Date Range: [ca. 1959-1965]

Reference Code: V190 / VI / B / v / PA - 01 to PA - 52

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Print

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Part Of: Bruno Engler fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M323 / S40 / V190

Series: VI : Retained file, B : Alphabetical order

Sous-Fonds: V190

Sub-Series: v : BC Scenic Views

Accession Number: 7436

Reference Code: V190 / VI / B / v / PA - 01 to PA - 52

GMD: Photograph; Print

Date Range: [ca. 1959-1965]

Physical Description: 52 photographs : b&w ; 25.2 x 20.2 cm or smaller

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 52 b&w prints of various scenic views around British Columbia. Includes views overlooking towns, skiing, beaches, A-frame cabins, highways, rivers, portraits, and the inner harbour & Empress Hotel in Victoria.

Subject Access: Activities; Architecture; Backcountry skiing; Boats; Buildings; Empress Hotel; Environment and Nature; Family and personal life; Glaciers; Landscape; Mountains; Personal and Professional Life; Portrait; Rivers; Roads; Scenery; Ship; Ski areas; Skiing; Sports and leisure; Totem pole; Winter sports

Geographic Access: Victoria; British Columbia

Language: English

Creator: Engler, Bruno

Title Source: Original title kept

Processing Status: Processed

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Bits and pieces, very interesting [scrapbook]

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Part Of: Helen Fulmer Wells fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook which contains mainly clippings, as well as some personal and family items, pertaining to Banff and region, events and personalities, mountain areas, local, regional and western Canadian history, and mountaineering expeditions and accomplishments. Material covers the p…

Date Range: [ca. 1950-1970]

Reference Code: M480 / 2

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook

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Part Of: Helen Fulmer Wells fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M480 / V675

Series: I. Textual records

Sous-Fonds: M480

Accession Number: 4087

Reference Code: M480 / 2

GMD: Scrapbook

Date Range: [ca. 1950-1970]

Physical Description: 5 cm of textual records (93 pages ; 30 x 37 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook which contains mainly clippings, as well as some personal and family items, pertaining to Banff and region, events and personalities, mountain areas, local, regional and western Canadian history, and mountaineering expeditions and accomplishments. Material covers the period between ca.1900 and ca.1970

Name Access: Wells, Helen Fulmer

Subject Access: Architecture; Art; Buildings and facilities; Community events; Events; Family and personal life; History; Indigenous Peoples; Newspaper; Obituary; Oldtimers; Trains

Geographic Access: Banff; Canmore; Bow Valley; Banff National Park; Mount Assiniboine; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Title Source: Title supplied by Sylvia Vosburgh, daughter of Helen Wells, and written inside scrapbook

Processing Status: Processed

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Bow Peak, Bow Lake

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

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.141

Description: A few small cabins can be seen huddled in amongst the trees to the left of the snowline in front Bow Lake is overpowered by the mountain peaks illuminating above it. Snow is visible among the cracks and crevices in foreboding slopes. A dark grey sky forecasts the arrival of a tremendous storm.

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

Title: Bow Peak, Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28.0 x 35.5 cm

Description: A few small cabins can be seen huddled in amongst the trees to the left of the snowline in front Bow Lake is overpowered by the mountain peaks illuminating above it. Snow is visible among the cracks and crevices in foreboding slopes. A dark grey sky forecasts the arrival of a tremendous storm.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies; lake; architecture, rural

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.141

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Cabin at Bow Lake

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

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.094

Description: A log cabin surrounded by trees at Bow Lake area.

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

Title: Cabin at Bow Lake

Date: 1945 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: A log cabin surrounded by trees at Bow Lake area.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; architecture; rural; cabin

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.094

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Cabin, Bow Lake

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

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.111

Description: Num-Ti-Jah Lodge on the shore of Bow Lake.

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

Title: Cabin, Bow Lake

Date: 1940 – 1960

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: Num-Ti-Jah Lodge on the shore of Bow Lake.

Subject: landscape; Canadian Rockies; Bow Lake; architecture; Num-Ti-Jah Lodge.

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

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.111

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Canmore

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Date: 1947

Medium: coloured woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.37

Description: Scene of Canmore street with Chinaman's Peak in background. Canmore in pencil blc, signed W.J. Phillips brc. Was mailed in off-white A Happy Christmas card from the Phillips. This print is #240 in R. Boulet Catalogue.

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Artist: Walter Joseph Phillips, R. C. A. (1884 – 1963, Canadian)

Title: Canmore

Date: 1947

Medium: coloured woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 11.8 x 15.1 cm

Description: Scene of Canmore street with Chinaman's Peak in background. Canmore in pencil blc, signed W.J. Phillips brc. Was mailed in off-white A Happy Christmas card from the Phillips. This print is #240 in R. Boulet Catalogue.