topic:"botanical" found 18 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Calypso bulbosa (Calypso Orchid/Pink Fairy's Slipper)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.19

Description: A single green stem from bottom centre curves to centre with 2 flowers, both are dark pink with yellow centre, pink petals flare out from bottom of flowers.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Calypso bulbosa (Calypso Orchid/Pink Fairy's Slipper)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.3 x 17.5 cm

Description: A single green stem from bottom centre curves to centre with 2 flowers, both are dark pink with yellow centre, pink petals flare out from bottom of flowers.

Subject: botanical; flower

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

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.19

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Dodecathem meadia (Shooting Star)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.09

Description: Short, thick green leaves cluster at base, 4 long pink stems extend from root; dart-like pink and yellow flowers at top of stems.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Dodecathem meadia (Shooting Star)

Date: 1891

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.5 x 17.5 cm

Description: Short, thick green leaves cluster at base, 4 long pink stems extend from root; dart-like pink and yellow flowers at top of stems.

Subject: botanical; flower

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

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.09

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Erythronium grandiflorum (Glacier Lily)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1890

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.12

Description: A thick green leaf rises from centre left at the bottom of the picture to top right; from inside the leaf protrude 2 yellow blossoms.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Erythronium grandiflorum (Glacier Lily)

Date: 1890

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.0 x 17.5 cm

Description: A thick green leaf rises from centre left at the bottom of the picture to top right; from inside the leaf protrude 2 yellow blossoms.

Subject: botanical; flower

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

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.12

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Eucephalus engelmannii (Engelmann's Aster/Aster engelmannii)

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Date: 1890 – 1910

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.07

Description: One green stem with green leaves, branches out near the top into 6 stems with smaller leaves, and an open, pink and yellow flower on the end.

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Artist: Mary Schäffer (1861 – 1939, Canadian)

Title: Eucephalus engelmannii (Engelmann's Aster/Aster engelmannii)

Date: 1890 – 1910

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 25.0 x 17.5 cm

Description: One green stem with green leaves, branches out near the top into 6 stems with smaller leaves, and an open, pink and yellow flower on the end.

Subject: botanical; flower

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

Catalogue Number: ScM.05.07

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Fireweed

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Artist: Maureen Fair (1926 – 2016, Canadian)

Date: 2001

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: FaM.02.02

Description: Astract expressionist painting of wildflowers. Long brushstrokes and staining of canvas in mainly oranges yellows and reds.

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Artist: Maureen Fair (1926 – 2016, Canadian)

Title: Fireweed

Date: 2001

Medium: oil on canvas

Description: Astract expressionist painting of wildflowers. Long brushstrokes and staining of canvas in mainly oranges yellows and reds.

Subject: abstract; expressionist; botanical; wildflowers

Credit: Gift and purchased from Maureen Fair, Canmore, 2002

Catalogue Number: FaM.02.02

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Ground Cover

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Artist: Patricia Deadman (1961 – , Canadian)

Date: 2001

Medium: photograph on photographic paper

Catalogue Number: DeP.18.01

Description: Sepia-toned photograph of mountain ground cover plants.

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Artist: Patricia Deadman (1961 – , Canadian)

Title: Ground Cover

Date: 2001

Medium: photograph on photographic paper

Description: Sepia-toned photograph of mountain ground cover plants.

Subject: botanical; mountain vegetation

Credit: Purchased from Robert Smith, Banff, 2001

Catalogue Number: DeP.18.01

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Lone Tree Below Illecillewaet Glacier

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Artist: Dianne Bos (1956 – , Canadian)

Date: 2000

Medium: photograph on photographic paper

Catalogue Number: BoD.18.01

Description: Colour photograph of tree in foreground. Behind it there is a mountain landscape. Around the tree is a rocky area. Clouds extend across the sky.

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Artist: Dianne Bos (1956 – , Canadian)

Title: Lone Tree Below Illecillewaet Glacier

Date: 2000

Medium: photograph on photographic paper

Description: Colour photograph of tree in foreground. Behind it there is a mountain landscape. Around the tree is a rocky area. Clouds extend across the sky.