topic:"architecture" found 39 records - Research Collections

Airdrie, Alberta

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

Date: 1957

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.24

Description: General colour: blue grey, brown, pink. Two elevators stand at the right side on the horizon. A train chugs past on the left. The foreround is brown fields - a fence appears from the left. The sky fills the upper two thirds and is spotted with clouds.

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

Title: Airdrie, Alberta

Date: 1957

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 22.8 x 27.8 cm

Description: General colour: blue grey, brown, pink. Two elevators stand at the right side on the horizon. A train chugs past on the left. The foreround is brown fields - a fence appears from the left. The sky fills the upper two thirds and is spotted with clouds.

Subject: architecture, rural; landscape, prairie

Credit: Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1973

Catalogue Number: LaC.05.24

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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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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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Bow River Boat House 1952

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Artist: Cyril Harris ( – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1952

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: HaC.03.01

Description: General colour: brown on white. Three buildings - lake in front - trees behind - a flag pole with flag rises behind the house at the right. The house at the left has a chimney and is long and narrow.

Artist: Cyril Harris ( – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Bow River Boat House 1952

Date: 1952

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 15.1 x 21.5 cm

Description: General colour: brown on white. Three buildings - lake in front - trees behind - a flag pole with flag rises behind the house at the right. The house at the left has a chimney and is long and narrow.

Subject: landscape; lake; architecture, rural

Credit: Gift of Cyril Paris, Banff, 1968

Catalogue Number: HaC.03.01

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The Brewster Homestead (Banff)

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Artist: Ella May Walker (1892 – 1960, Canadian)

Date: 1951

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WaE.02.01

Description: A log house dominates the pictures, out buildings to the left of the house, wood fencing both sides; green/brown grasses foreground, evergreen trees behind house; mountains to left and right top of picture; some clouds in blue sky.

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Artist: Ella May Walker (1892 – 1960, Canadian)

Title: The Brewster Homestead (Banff)

Date: 1951

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 56.3 x 71.5 cm

Description: A log house dominates the pictures, out buildings to the left of the house, wood fencing both sides; green/brown grasses foreground, evergreen trees behind house; mountains to left and right top of picture; some clouds in blue sky.

Subject: architecture, rural; Mount Rundle; landscape, mountain

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: WaE.02.01

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Church at Morley, Alberta

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

Date: 1942

Medium: coloured woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.33

Description: McDougall Church at Morley, Alta. Mountain background with church and two figures in foreground. Signed blc WJP and inside block. Signed brc W.J. Phillips on border brc, was mailed in Season's Greetings card from Phillips. This print is #230 in R. Boulet Catalogue.

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

Title: Church at Morley, Alberta

Date: 1942

Medium: coloured woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 10.9 x 10.3 cm

Description: McDougall Church at Morley, Alta. Mountain background with church and two figures in foreground. Signed blc WJP and inside block. Signed brc W.J. Phillips on border brc, was mailed in Season's Greetings card from Phillips. This print is #230 in R. Boulet Catalogue.

Subject: mountain; architecture, rural; animal, horse; figure, male; MacDougall

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

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.33

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Corral at Banff

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

Date: prior to 1963

Medium: coloured woodcut on paper

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.35

Description: Tipi, corral and barn at Brewster Stables on Spray Avenue. Cascade Mountain in background. Signed brc W.J. Phillips was mailed in white Greeting card from the Phillips. This print is #227 in R. Boulet Catalogue.

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

Title: Corral at Banff

Date: prior to 1963

Medium: coloured woodcut on paper

Dimensions: 12.4 x 9.9 cm

Description: Tipi, corral and barn at Brewster Stables on Spray Avenue. Cascade Mountain in background. Signed brc W.J. Phillips was mailed in white Greeting card from the Phillips. This print is #227 in R. Boulet Catalogue.

Subject: mountain; Canadian Rockies; architecture, rural; Christmas

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

Catalogue Number: PhW.04.35

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First Cabin at Lake Louise

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Artist: John Donaldson Curren (1852 – 1940, Canadian)

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: CuJ.02.03

Description: General colour: green, brown. Across the bottom is green water. The rocky beach has a rowboat on it at the left side. It has one oar in it and the name Dave White painted on the side. At center is a small log cabin - logs scattered at the left side of it - smoke coming out the top. The background i…

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Artist: John Donaldson Curren (1852 – 1940, Canadian)

Title: First Cabin at Lake Louise

Date: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 39.4 x 54.6 cm

Description: General colour: green, brown. Across the bottom is green water. The rocky beach has a rowboat on it at the left side. It has one oar in it and the name Dave White painted on the side. At center is a small log cabin - logs scattered at the left side of it - smoke coming out the top. The background is trees.